European Union (EU) sanctions against Russia for recognizing the DPR and LPR have come into force. This is stated in the published by the European Union document.
According to the document, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, head of the presidential administration Anton Vaino, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, State Duma Vice Speaker Pyotr Tolstoy and Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov were included in the EU sanctions list. Also under the sanctions were the editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and the RT TV channel Margarita Simonyan, journalist and TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov, and VEB.RF chairman Igor Shuvalov. In addition, the EU restrictive measures will affect Rossiya Bank, Promsvyazbank, VEB.RF and the Internet Research Agency.
The sanctions will also affect VTB President-Chairman Andrey Kostin, VTB Deputy President-Chairman Denis Bortnikov, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin, Government Chief of Staff Dmitry Grigorenko and Economic Development Minister Maxim Reshetnikov.
It is noted that the sanctions involve a ban on entry into the EU countries and the freezing of assets.
Earlier it was reported that the European Union officially adopted sanctions against Russia for recognizing the independence of the DNR and LNR. The sanctions list includes 351 State Duma deputies who voted in support of an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to recognize the republics, and a number of other individuals and organizations that “played a role in undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.”
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