Igor Sechin, Alexei Miller, Maria Zakharova, Margarita Simonyan, Arkadi Rotenberg, Boris Rotenberg (from left to right).
Moscow, Berlin, London Vladimir Putin has taken precautions: a few weeks ago his private luxury yacht “Graceful” left the Hamburg shipyard Blohm und Voss for Kaliningrad – even before the maintenance work was completed. The Russian President apparently wanted to keep them safe from Western access.
This week, the EU, the US and Great Britain personally imposed sanctions on Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. All of their assets are to be frozen. The day before, Western countries had already imposed sanctions on a number of Russian business leaders, politicians and officials close to Putin.
Below is an overview of the 15 most important names. Some have been blacklisted since the annexation of Crimea in 2014, while others were added this week.
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