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(NMG), former Russian gymnast and a former The EU also sanctioned servicemen and
member of the State Duma who is "closely asso- commanders of the 64th Separate Motorised
ciated with President Vladimir Putin”. Rifle Brigade of the 35th Combined Arms Army
As followed by bne IntelliNews, in May the of the Russian Federation, “which killed, raped
UK also sanctioned President Putin's alleged and tortured civilians in Bucha, Ukraine. These
“girlfriend”, along with his ex-wife and cousins. atrocities constitute crimes against human-
Previously Putin has already been personally ity and war crimes”. The Head of the National
sanctioned, but unconfirmed reports claimed Defence Control Centre Colonel-General
that ex-Olympic gymnast-turned-politician Mikhail Mizintsev nicknamed “the Butcher of
Kabaeva was exempted from the US Treasury’s Mariupol” is sanctioned as well. He is identified
sanctions due to fears of a furious reaction from as the commander overseeing the siege of Mar-
the Russian president. iupol, where he has drawn on tactics previously
The EU sanction list does not mention Kabae- used in the siege of Aleppo, Syria, in directing
va’s alleged relationship with Putin directly, but Russian forces’ bombardment of Mariupol.
states that “she is associated with a listed person The EU will also suspend the broadcast-
responsible for and actively supporting actions ing activities in the EU of three more Russian
undermining the territorial integrity, sover- state-owned outlets: Rossiya RTR/RTR Plan-
eignty and independence of Ukraine, as well as eta, Rossiya 24 / Russia 24 and TV Centre
stability and security in Ukraine”. International.
The sixth sanction package also officially
Marina Mordasheva and Aleksandra Mel- imposes the previous ban on the provision of
nichenko accounting, public relations and consultancy
Following the US and EU sanctions against services.
Russian steel tycoon Alexey Mordashev (Mor- Notably, the EU now also bans the provision
dashov), the EU sanctioned his wife Marina of cloud services to Russia. This will add more
Mordashova (Mordasheva). The EU notes that pressure on the short- to medium-term deficit
Mordashev has transferred his shares in the of hardware and processing capacities, with the
travel giant TUI and the gold company Nord- private and public IT/AI/tech projects having to
gold, together worth more than €1.5bn, to his compete for scarce imported resources such as
wife Marina Mordashova through various off- servers and other data processing tools.
shore companies, including Unifirm Limited, The EU is also expanding a list of dual-use
Ondero Limited and Ranel Assets Limited. items under trade restrictions for Russia and
In addition, the EU sanctioned the Serbian Belarus, as well as including 80 chemicals which
and Croatian national Aleksandra Melnichenko, can be used to produce chemical weapons.
the wife of the previously sanctioned Andrey The fifth EU sanction package enacted in
Melnichenko, the owner of the major fertiliser April included an embargo on €4bn worth of
producer EuroChem and coal company SUEK. Russian coal imports, an asset freeze of “several”
“Aleksandra Melnichenko takes good advan- Russian banks, a ban on Russian trucks and ships
tage of the fortune and benefits from the wealth in European ports, a ban on high-tech goods
of her husband. Together with him, she owns two exports to Russia of up to €10bn, and additional
penthouses with a value of more than $30mn. In import limitations for up to €5.5bn of Russian
March 2022, Aleksandra Melnichenko replaced goods.
her husband as the beneficial owner of Firstline The fourth package of EU sanctions enacted
Trust, managed by Linetrust,” the EU official on March 15 included: an import ban on steel
journal claims. products; a ban on new investment into the Rus-
sian energy sector; a ban on transactions with
Others certain Russian state-owned enterprises (SOEs);
As reported by bne IntelliNews, Russian Or- and an export ban on luxury goods amongst
thodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill was re- other things. The list of sanctioned oligarchs was
moved from the EU’s sanctions list at the de- also extended.
mand of Hungary. The EU ambassadors agreed Previously the EU also added 14 more Rus-
to drop the Russian religious leader from the sian top executives and billionaires to the sanc-
list of people penalised after a threat of a veto tions list in addition to initial sanctions against
by Budapest. six Russian oligarchs. ™

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