U.S. imposes new wave of sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including former Olympic gymnastics gold medalist Alina Kabaeva, the rumored girlfriend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Russian tycoon who owns London’s second-largest estate Sanctions blacklist.
AFP and Archyde.com reported that the ban on U.S. companies included several other dignitaries believed to be close to Putin, four Russian officials appointed to run occupied territories in Ukraine, and more than 20 high-tech officials. Institutions and companies, including key Russian-backed entities in the electronics industry.
The U.S. Treasury Department also announced sanctions on Putin confidant and billionaire Andrey Grigoryevich Guryev. Guriyev owns the Witanhurst estate. Whittenhurst is the second largest estate in London, following Buckingham Palace.
Guriyev is the founder and former vice president of PhosAgro, a major supplier to the global fertilizer market. Both Guriyev and his son are subject to financial sanctions that bar U.S. companies from dealing with them, including banks with U.S. branches, and freeze their assets under U.S. jurisdiction.
The U.S. Treasury Department also targeted Kabayeva, a former Olympic gymnastics gold medalist, who is widely rumored to be Putin’s girlfriend. In addition, Natalya Popova, the wife of Kirill Dmitriev, the chief executive of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, a sovereign wealth fund, is also on the sanctions list.
The Treasury Department said Popova worked at Innopraktika, a technology company run by one of Putin’s daughters.
“While innocent people are suffering from a war of unlawful Russian aggression, Putin’s allies have made fortunes and lived lavishly,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement. “Treasury will use the We have all the tools at our disposal to ensure that Russian elites and Kremlin instigators are held accountable for their complicity in a war that has cost countless lives.”
Viktor Filipovich Rashnikov, one of Russia’s largest taxpayers, and two subsidiaries of his company MMK were also sanctioned. MMK is one of the largest steel mills in the world.
In addition, nearly 900 Russian officials and 31 unidentified non-Russian officials who supported Russia’s occupation of Crimea were placed on the U.S. visa ban list, the State Department said. “Today, the United States is taking additional action to ensure that the Kremlin and its instigators feel the many effects of our response to the Kremlin’s war of unscrupulous aggression,” said Secretary of State Antony Blinken. .”
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