Day: September 28, 2018

Ukraine has imposed sanctions against several Russian companies KYIV, September 27 — RIA Novosti. Kiev has imposed sanctions against several Russian companies, said the press service of the SBU. Upstairs The restrictions will apply “RZD Logistics”, “Promkomplekt” and “gas Tank”. It is noted that under the sanction of the Council of national security and defense of Ukraine and the Ministry of economy has got a number of “other entities” from Russia. Kiev accuses them of cooperating with companies from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk national republics. The security service of Ukraine claims that these companies concluded a “foreign economic agreement” with transport companies operating on the uncontrolled territories of Kiev Donbass. On the basis of these contracts is a “systematic illegal transfer of goods through closed checkpoints “Izvarino”, “Dolzhansky” and “Red Grave” of Lugansk customs”. The sanctions include the blocking of assets, limit trading operations, partial or complete termination of

The state Duma adopted the law on the direction seized from the corrupt funds to the FIU MOSCOW, 27 Sep — RIA Novosti. The state Duma adopted the law on the inclusion in revenues of the budget of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) confiscated from corrupt money. Upstairs The document relates to the budget revenues of PFR from 2019 confiscated monies obtained through the Commission of corruption offences as well as money from the sale of confiscated property obtained through the Commission of such offences. The Federal Treasury at the request of developers of the bill predicted the possible receipt of such funds 2019-2024 years in the amount of 1.8 billion rubles, explained last week, one of its authors, the first Deputy head of the faction “United Russia” Andrei Isayev. However, he stressed that this amount is arbitrary, because no one can predict how much money will be confiscated

Scapegoats. USA focus the sanctions on the Russian oligarchs The American Ministry of Finance has recognized the impossibility of a full-scale introduction of restrictive measures against Russia because of the side effect on the economy of the US and its NATO allies. Upstairs USA can’t impose against Russia as all-encompassing sanctions against Iran or North Korea, because the Russian economy is too large and well integrated into the international financial system. But there is a solution: it was to punish the specific Russian oligarchs and their controlled companies. This was stated by the assistant Secretary of the Treasury Marshall Billingsley (Marshall Billingslea) at a hearing of the Subcommittee on financial services and trade, house of representatives, U.S. Congress. The document was published on Wednesday, September 26, on the website of the U.S. Treasury. The statement stressed that the Ministry of Finance of the USA has a clear view of the