U.S. sanctions over 150 entities, 37 individuals
WASHINGTON. Nov 2 (Interfax) - The United States on Thursday replenished its sanctions lists on Russia with over 150 entities and 37 individuals.
Among the newly sanctioned are Russian Deputy Industry and Trade Minister Aleksei Besprozvannykh, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Anastasia Bondarenko, Deputy Digital Development Minister Oleg Kachanov, Deputy Emergency Situations Minister Alexei Serko, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said. Sanctions were also imposed on Yakub Zakriyev, a deputy head of government in the Chechen Republic.
The list also includes citizens of Ireland, Latvia, Cyprus and Turkey.
Sanctions were imposed on banks, industrial and trade firms, energy companies, educational institutions: the Bauman Moscow State Technical University, ZALA Aero Group, Baltelektron, FAU RosKapStroy, AO NPTs Spetsnefteprodukt, AO Zavod Plastmass, Rustitan Holding, Advanta Elektro LLC, Aeroscan LLC, Akhd Yuzhny Port LLC, AlfaKomponent LLC, Arctic LNG 2 LLC, Kaliningrad-Balttrans LLC, and Pressmash.
The newly sanctioned entities also include Nanochip LLC, NTTs Orion LLC, NPOK EOMS LLC, Sputnik Electronics LLC, Sputnik-Spetspostava LLC, and BP Engineering LLC.
The restrictive measures were also introduced in regard to Zavod Pribornykh Podshipnikov LLC, Zavod Kompleksnyye Dorozhnyye Mashiny LLC, Magnitogorsky Zavod Prokatnykh Valkov CJSC, Stankoprom JSC, Firm Horst LLC, and Military Construction Company, a public-law company.
The lists also include companies from China, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Cyprus, Switzerland, Mongolia and Uzbekistan.
The new sanctions "focus on individuals and entities abetting Russia [...] against Ukraine by providing Russia with much-needed technology and equipment from third countries," the OFAC said in a statement. The new measures also target "Russia's domestic industrial base," it said.
In addition, the sanctions are "targeting Russia's future energy production and revenue, metals and mining sector, defense procurement, and those involved in supporting the Russian government's war effort," the statement said.