EU March 15, to extend for six months sanctions against 146 citizens of the Russian Federation and Ukraine
Also in the black list includes 37 organizations, TASS reported a source.
BRUSSELS, 9 March. /Offset. TASS Denis Dubrovin/. The European Union on 15 March to extend for six months sanctions against 146 citizens of Russia and the proclaimed republics of the South-East of Ukraine, and 37 organizations. TASS said the European diplomatic source.
“Council of permanent representatives of member countries of the EU (“COREPER”) will extend for six months the black list for Russia and Ukraine at the next meeting March 15,” he said.
The last time black list for Russia has been extended for six months on September 15. Then it included 146 people, including representatives of the Russian authorities, Russian politicians, businessmen and security forces, as well as the leaders of the proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics (DND and LNR). The list included 37 organizations, including all known military and political structures of the DNI and the LC, which European businesses are prohibited to maintain any relationship. Anyone who is listed in the list of banned entry to the EU, and their assets, in case such are detected in European banks, are subject to freezing.
Blacklist for Russia and Ukraine is only one of the three independent packages of EU sanctions. Until the end of June 2017 act and sectoral economic restrictions that have been extended every six months. By the end of 2017 are trading visa and punitive measures against the Crimea in the framework of the EU strategy on non-recognition of occurrence of the Peninsula in structure of Russia, extended on an annual basis.