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The United States and Britain on Thursday imposed new sanctions against Russia’s super-rich and others close to President Vladimir Putin, to further increase pressure on the Kremlin over its military attack on Ukraine.
“We want you to feel the squeeze, for the people around you to feel the squeeze!” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki described the Biden Administration’s new strategy this way: attacking the innermost circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The United States announced on Thursday additional sanctions aimed at close associates of the Russian leader, while the State Department decreed entry bans on 19 Russian oligarchs, as well as their relatives and associates.
“What we are talking about here is seizing their assets, seizing their yachts and making it difficult for them to send their children to colleges and universities in the West,” Psaki added, explaining that eight tycoons and officials are on the list.
Britain, in turn, has also imposed sanctions against two Russian oligarchs it sees as linked to the Kremlin and who have amassed fortunes and political influence through their connections to Putin.
The cascade of Western sanctions has already had an effect on the Russian economy: the ruble has fallen sharply and inflation is on the rise. Meanwhile, the withdrawal of foreign companies threatens to worsen the situation. However, the ultimate goal of stopping the attack on Ukraine has not been achieved.
The long (and growing) list of sanctioned oligarchs
In the list of the United States, as in the United Kingdom, appears the Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov, one of the richest people in that country and press secretary of Vladimir Putin, whom they point out as his “figurehead”.
Usmanov, founder of the Metalloinvest mining company, will not be able to use his properties in the United States, including his luxury yacht, which according to the White House was seized by Germany, nor his private plane.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, whom the White House accused of being “a major purveyor of Putin’s propaganda,” was also sanctioned, as was Nikolay Tokarev, CEO of energy giant Transneft.
Billionaire brothers Boris and Arkady Rotenberg and several relatives were also included in the punishment, as was Igor Shuvalov, a Russian politician and Putin’s former deputy prime minister who heads the State Development Corporation.
Yevgeniy Prigozhin had the sanctions he already had renewed after alleged attempts to interfere in the US elections. The Treasury Department described him as the Russian financier of the Internet Research Agency (IRA).
The main difference between the European and the American sanctions is that the latter also affect the families of the oligarchs, because Washington wants to prevent as much as possible that these elites transfer their wealth to others.
With Reuters and EFE
First modification:
The United States and Britain on Thursday imposed new sanctions against Russia’s super-rich and others close to President Vladimir Putin, to further increase pressure on the Kremlin over its military attack on Ukraine.
“We want you to feel the squeeze, for the people around you to feel the squeeze!” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki described the Biden Administration’s new strategy this way: attacking the innermost circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The United States announced on Thursday additional sanctions aimed at close associates of the Russian leader, while the State Department decreed entry bans on 19 Russian oligarchs, as well as their relatives and associates.
“What we are talking about here is seizing their assets, seizing their yachts and making it difficult for them to send their children to colleges and universities in the West,” Psaki added, explaining that eight tycoons and officials are on the list.
Britain, in turn, has also imposed sanctions against two Russian oligarchs it sees as linked to the Kremlin and who have amassed fortunes and political influence through their connections to Putin.
The cascade of Western sanctions has already had an effect on the Russian economy: the ruble has fallen sharply and inflation is on the rise. Meanwhile, the withdrawal of foreign companies threatens to worsen the situation. However, the ultimate goal of stopping the attack on Ukraine has not been achieved.
The long (and growing) list of sanctioned oligarchs
In the list of the United States, as in the United Kingdom, appears the Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov, one of the richest people in that country and press secretary of Vladimir Putin, whom they point out as his “figurehead”.
Usmanov, founder of the Metalloinvest mining company, will not be able to use his properties in the United States, including his luxury yacht, which according to the White House was seized by Germany, nor his private plane.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, whom the White House accused of being “a major purveyor of Putin’s propaganda,” was also sanctioned, as was Nikolay Tokarev, CEO of energy giant Transneft.
Billionaire brothers Boris and Arkady Rotenberg and several relatives were also included in the punishment, as was Igor Shuvalov, a Russian politician and Putin’s former deputy prime minister who heads the State Development Corporation.
Yevgeniy Prigozhin had the sanctions he already had renewed after alleged attempts to interfere in the US elections. The Treasury Department described him as the Russian financier of the Internet Research Agency (IRA).
The main difference between the European and the American sanctions is that the latter also affect the families of the oligarchs, because Washington wants to prevent as much as possible that these elites transfer their wealth to others.
With Reuters and EFE
First modification:
The United States and Britain on Thursday imposed new sanctions against Russia’s super-rich and others close to President Vladimir Putin, to further increase pressure on the Kremlin over its military attack on Ukraine.
“We want you to feel the squeeze, for the people around you to feel the squeeze!” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki described the Biden Administration’s new strategy this way: attacking the innermost circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The United States announced on Thursday additional sanctions aimed at close associates of the Russian leader, while the State Department decreed entry bans on 19 Russian oligarchs, as well as their relatives and associates.
“What we are talking about here is seizing their assets, seizing their yachts and making it difficult for them to send their children to colleges and universities in the West,” Psaki added, explaining that eight tycoons and officials are on the list.
Britain, in turn, has also imposed sanctions against two Russian oligarchs it sees as linked to the Kremlin and who have amassed fortunes and political influence through their connections to Putin.
The cascade of Western sanctions has already had an effect on the Russian economy: the ruble has fallen sharply and inflation is on the rise. Meanwhile, the withdrawal of foreign companies threatens to worsen the situation. However, the ultimate goal of stopping the attack on Ukraine has not been achieved.
The long (and growing) list of sanctioned oligarchs
In the list of the United States, as in the United Kingdom, appears the Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov, one of the richest people in that country and press secretary of Vladimir Putin, whom they point out as his “figurehead”.
Usmanov, founder of the Metalloinvest mining company, will not be able to use his properties in the United States, including his luxury yacht, which according to the White House was seized by Germany, nor his private plane.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, whom the White House accused of being “a major purveyor of Putin’s propaganda,” was also sanctioned, as was Nikolay Tokarev, CEO of energy giant Transneft.
Billionaire brothers Boris and Arkady Rotenberg and several relatives were also included in the punishment, as was Igor Shuvalov, a Russian politician and Putin’s former deputy prime minister who heads the State Development Corporation.
Yevgeniy Prigozhin had the sanctions he already had renewed after alleged attempts to interfere in the US elections. The Treasury Department described him as the Russian financier of the Internet Research Agency (IRA).
The main difference between the European and the American sanctions is that the latter also affect the families of the oligarchs, because Washington wants to prevent as much as possible that these elites transfer their wealth to others.
With Reuters and EFE
First modification:
The United States and Britain on Thursday imposed new sanctions against Russia’s super-rich and others close to President Vladimir Putin, to further increase pressure on the Kremlin over its military attack on Ukraine.
“We want you to feel the squeeze, for the people around you to feel the squeeze!” White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki described the Biden Administration’s new strategy this way: attacking the innermost circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The United States announced on Thursday additional sanctions aimed at close associates of the Russian leader, while the State Department decreed entry bans on 19 Russian oligarchs, as well as their relatives and associates.
“What we are talking about here is seizing their assets, seizing their yachts and making it difficult for them to send their children to colleges and universities in the West,” Psaki added, explaining that eight tycoons and officials are on the list.
Britain, in turn, has also imposed sanctions against two Russian oligarchs it sees as linked to the Kremlin and who have amassed fortunes and political influence through their connections to Putin.
The cascade of Western sanctions has already had an effect on the Russian economy: the ruble has fallen sharply and inflation is on the rise. Meanwhile, the withdrawal of foreign companies threatens to worsen the situation. However, the ultimate goal of stopping the attack on Ukraine has not been achieved.
The long (and growing) list of sanctioned oligarchs
In the list of the United States, as in the United Kingdom, appears the Russian tycoon Alisher Usmanov, one of the richest people in that country and press secretary of Vladimir Putin, whom they point out as his “figurehead”.
Usmanov, founder of the Metalloinvest mining company, will not be able to use his properties in the United States, including his luxury yacht, which according to the White House was seized by Germany, nor his private plane.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, whom the White House accused of being “a major purveyor of Putin’s propaganda,” was also sanctioned, as was Nikolay Tokarev, CEO of energy giant Transneft.
Billionaire brothers Boris and Arkady Rotenberg and several relatives were also included in the punishment, as was Igor Shuvalov, a Russian politician and Putin’s former deputy prime minister who heads the State Development Corporation.
Yevgeniy Prigozhin had the sanctions he already had renewed after alleged attempts to interfere in the US elections. The Treasury Department described him as the Russian financier of the Internet Research Agency (IRA).
The main difference between the European and the American sanctions is that the latter also affect the families of the oligarchs, because Washington wants to prevent as much as possible that these elites transfer their wealth to others.
With Reuters and EFE