A new package of sanctions against Russia, and in particular against the Putin daughters, the Lavrov family and the Russian bank Sberbank, is imposed by the USA as announced today.
More specifically, the measures are aimed more broadly at the Russian elite and the country’s banks, and include, among other things, a ban on investment in Russia by any American, either at the level of venture capital or at the level of mergers.
According to Reuters, a senior US official clarified that the new sanctions will lead to the complete closure, in terms of transactions, of the Russian bank Sberbank, which owns one third of the total assets of Russia, and Alfabank.
The United States has also imposed sanctions on the adult daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the wife and daughter of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and members of Russia’s Security Council, the official said.
The list of persons for whom sanctions are envisaged also includes the Vice-President of the Security Council of Russia and former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev.
The United States is expected to announce further measures against Russia, while according to reports sanctions against the president’s daughters Vladimir Putin the EU is also expected to impose
One day after its president Of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskygave frightening testimony at the UN For the atrocities he described as war crimes, EU diplomats were preparing to discuss a ban on Russian coal, a halt to trade with four major banks and a ban on several Russian ships from EU ports later. on Wednesday.
Closer members of the Russian leader’s family may be added to the growing list of sanctions, the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported, citing news agencies saying they were aware of the plan.
It is unclear whether these sanctions against her Maria Vorontsova and her Katerina Tikhonovawill come from the US, the EU or both.
Prosecution against Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev for circumventing sanctions
The United States are helping international efforts to gather evidence of possible war crimes committed by Russia in Ukraine, Justice Minister Merrick Garland said today.
The head of the US Department of State’s prosecutors met this week in Paris with his French counterpart, the minister said.
A little earlier, the ministry announced that Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev prosecuted in US with the accused of funding Russians promoting the Crimean separatist movement. The Russian multimillionaire is considered by the US Treasury Department as one of It is also accused of providing material support to Donetsk’s self-proclaimed “democracy” in eastern Ukraine.
“After being sanctioned by the United States, Malofeev tried to circumvent them by using accomplices to buy and run undercover media across Europe,” he added.
Is for the first time prosecuted a Russian oligarch in the US after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, clarified the Deputy Minister of Justice Lisa Monaco.
Garland also said that the US authorities had stopped a kind of malicious computer network, known as a botnet (robot program) which was controlled by the Russian military intelligence service GRU.
“The Russian government has recently used similar infrastructure to attack Ukrainian targets. “Fortunately, we were able to stop this robot program before it was used.”
“Thanks to our close cooperation with our international partners, we have been able to detect the infection of thousands of computers” and “we were able to disable GRU control on these computers before the robot program could be used as a weapon,” he said.
Reuters
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