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29 Russian regional governors, and Sarvar and Sanjar Ismailov, nephews of "major Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov who has close ties to the Kremlin."
The new seventh package of EU sanctions against Russia will include Sberbank. The new EU sanctions against the Russian Federation will consist of stricter restrictions on Russian Sberbank. In addition, the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company will also be included in the sanctions list, announced the head of the President's Office, Andriy Yermak. "The new EU sanctions package against the Russian Federation will consist of an embargo on gold, expansion of personal sanctions, and stricter restrictions against Sberbank. Also, according to mass media, individual sanctions will be imposed against the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Andriy Belousov, and Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin. In addition, the list includes protégés of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine. In total, 47 individuals and 9 legal entities will be added to the sanctioned list.
EU imposes sanctions against 57 Russian individuals, structures. The 7th package of sanctions includes the mayor of Moscow Serhiy Sobyanin, First Deputy Director of the Federal Security Service Serhiy Korolev, Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard Viktor Strygunov, and organizations like the state bank Sberbank, against which the sanctions were extended, the FORSS group of companies operating in the shipbuilding markets, the rocket and space industry enterprise Kvant, and the Avlita company operating ports.
Russia adds 5 EU countries to ‘unfriendly’ list. The Russian government included Greece, Denmark, Slovenia, Croatia and Slovakia in the list of “unfriendly countries.” The document limits the number of employees of diplomatic missions of these countries that they can hire in Russia. In March 2022, a few days after the start of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the Russian government compiled a list of “unfriendly countries,” which included a number of European Union states, the United States, the UK, Japan and about 20 other countries.
Lithuania resumes transit of goods to Kaliningrad. Lithuania lifted a ban on rail transport of sanctioned goods to and from Russia’s exclave on July 22, reports Reuters, citing Russian state-controlled media. The EU allowed Russia to continue the transit by rail of sanctioned goods destined for Kaliningrad through the bloc’s territory last week, adding that the transported goods must be inspected. Lithuania suspended the transport of some goods to Russia’s exclave in June due to European sanctions.
The EU lifted restrictions on the export of grain and oil from Russia to third countries. The European Union loosened the sanctions imposed on Russia, unblocking agricultural products and oil export to third countries. In
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