The newly sanctioned individuals include three top military officials: Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s First Deputy Defense Minister, Army General Arkady Bakhin, and the head of the main Operation Directorate of General Staff, Lieutenant General Andrey Kartapolov.
Two members of the Russian lower house of parliament, the State Duma, singer Iosif Kobzon and Valery Rashkin, who heads the Russian Communist Party branch in Moscow, are also on the list. The remaining 14 people are officials of the self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine.
The updated "blacklist," which was agreed February 9, was published in the EU Official Journal on Monday and came into force at the time of publication.
Restrictive measures include the freezing of the individuals’ assets in European Union countries and an EU-wide travel ban.
Aleksey Pushkov, the chairman of the State Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee, has tweeted that the new EU sanctions, adopted February 9, are “going to be contrary to the results of Minsk [peace agreements]. These sanctions will not solve anything, but will complicate the political dialogue.”
- Russia’s representative to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, told journalists that further extension of sanctions would not promote accomplishment of the Minsk agreements on the Ukrainian crisis.
The EU’s expanded sanctions against Russia come after the successful 16-hour Minsk peace talks between the leaders of Russia, Germany, France and Ukraine, aimed at promoting a ceasefire in Ukraine..................http://rt.com/news/232659-eu-russians-sanctions-list/
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Black lists imposed by EU dismissed as 'dirty snow which melts when spring comes'...
ReplyDeleteLeader of the Russian Communist Party, MP Gennady Zyuganov, has dismissed a list of Russian citizens blacklisted by EU as "dirty snow which melts when spring comes."
"I think that any lists made with the aim of disrupting normal relations are not merely abnormal; they are unnatural and criminal in essence," Zyuganov told a news conference at TASS on Monday.
On Monday morning the EU made public a renewed list of Russian citizens to whom the EU sanctions were applied. Russian Deputy defense minister Anatoly Ivanov, singer Iosif Kobzon, MP Valery Rashkin, who heads the Moscow branch of the Communist party organization, fourteen people from the south-east of Ukraine and nine juridical entities — the formations of self-defense forces from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics, were added to a group of citizens already blacklisted by EU..................http://tass.ru/en/world/777844
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Trotz Minsk-Abkommen: EU verschärft Sanktionen gegen Russland...
ReplyDeleteDie EU wirft ihnen vor, die territoriale Einheit und Souveränität der Ukraine zu untergraben und das Land zu destabilisieren, wie es im Amtsblatt der Europäischen Union heißt. Die neuen Sanktionen treffen unter anderem die Vizeverteidigungsminister Anatoli Antonow und Archadi Bachtin, den stellvertretenden Generalstabschef Andrej Kartapolow, den Duma-Abgeordneten Waleri Raschkin und den Popsänger Jossif Kobson. Bei den anderen bestraften Personen handelt es sich um Repräsentanten der abtrünnigen ostukrainischen Regionen Donezk und Lugansk. Jetzt stehen insgesamt 151 Personen und 37 Unternehmen, Einrichtungen und Organisationen auf der Brüsseler Sanktionsliste. Ihnen ist die Einreise in die EU verboten, ihre Konten in der EU, wenn es welche gibt, sind gesperrt..............http://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20150216/301129631.html#ixzz3RuO8CQ81
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A shaky new truce in Ukraine has been put at risk on its second day after Kiev said persistent rebel attacks meant there was "no question" of it pulling back heavy weapons, and the European Union ratcheted up sanctions on Russia...
ReplyDelete"There is no question at the moment of us withdrawing heavy weapons" from the frontline because of fire from pro-Russian separatists, a Ukrainian military spokesman, Vladyslav Seleznyov, told the AFP news agency.
Pulling back tanks, artillery and rockets from the frontline in Ukraine's east is scheduled to take place from midnight (22:00 GMT) on Monday as the second phase of a European-mediated truce agreed last week.
But while monitors said the ceasefire that came into effect on Sunday was being generally followed, shelling was unabated around Debaltseve, a strategic railway hub linking the two main rebel-held cities of Donestk and Lugansk................http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/02/ukraine-won-withdraw-weapons-attacks-150216102009586.html
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Moskau: Neue EU-Sanktionen werden nicht unbeantwortet bleiben...
ReplyDeleteDie von der EU beschlossenen neuen Sanktionen gegen Russland sind unsinnig, sie widersprechen dem gesunden Menschenverstand und werden nicht unbeantwortet bleiben, wie aus einer am Montag veröffentlichten Mitteilung des russischen Außenministeriums hervorgeht.
„Eines ist klar: Derartige Beschlüsse – sie werden auch eine adäquate Reaktion auslösen — widersprechen dem gesunden Menschenverstand und sind der sich bietenden Möglichkeit, eine Lösung für den innerukrainischen Konflikt zu finden, keineswegs förderlich“, heißt es..................http://de.sputniknews.com/politik/20150216/301135622.html#ixzz3RvQFA8Zn
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