Restrictions against hundreds of names and companies: the US introduced new sanctions against Russia

Restrictions against hundreds of names and companies: the United States has introduced new sanctions against Russia Margarita Voloshina

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The United States of America has introduced new sanctions against the aggressor country. More than 300 individuals and legal entities in Russia were subject to restrictions.

Sanctions also apply to legal entities in third countries that help the enemy maintain its war machine. This is stated in the message of the United States Department of the Treasury.

What sanctions were imposed against Russia

According to the information released, the new sanctions restrictions also expand the scope of secondary sanctions that were introduced against foreign financial institutions.

In particular, they affected the Russian military-industrial complex. He was banned from using American software and information technology services.

Thus, sanctions were imposed against more than 300 individuals and legal entities both in the aggressor state and abroad . These include countries in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, Central Asia and the Caribbean.

As part of one of the largest additions to the United States sanctions list, the following economic restrictions fell on:

• Moscow Exchange;
• National Settlement Depository;
• National Clearing Center;
• Russian National Reinsurance Company;
• “Gazprom invest”;
• Sogaz insurance company;
• ship repair plant of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Ministry of Defense;
• Oil Terminal Belokamyanka LLC, which provides oil transshipment services to Rosneft and Lukoil;
• Arctic LNG 1 LLC and Arctic LNG 3 LLC – as part of the Russian gas project – previously imposed sanctions against Arctic LNG 2;
• “Promsvyazbank”;
• “Vnesheconombank”;
• Sberbank of Russia ;
• “VTB Bank”;
• “VTB Capital Holding” and their other branches, which allowed exporters and importers to conduct financial transactions.

In addition, the United States has prohibited the provision of software and IT services to any person in Russia.

The restrictions also affected the head of Gagauzia, Hutsul

According to the US State Department, the country introduced sanctions against the head of Gagauzia, Evgenia Gutsul. She is involved in the criminal network of the Moldovan fugitive oligarch Ilan Shor.

Evgenia Gutsul is a Moldovan political figure who has gained significant attention in connection with her election to the position of bashkan (head) of Gagauzia , an autonomous territorial entity within Moldova.

She represents the Shor party, the fugitive Moldovan oligarch Ilan Shor. He is a defendant in the case of the “theft of a billion” from the banking system of Moldova.