On Tuesday, April 29, Standard & Poor's credit rating service lowered Lukoil's long-term rating from "BBB" to "BBB-", the reports S&P press service . The forecast was assessed as "negative". In addition, the agency downgraded its forecasts for the ratings of Novatek, Gazprom Neft and Phosagro.

A day earlier, on April 28, the agency downgraded the ratings of the largest Russian state-owned companies: Russian Railways and its subsidiary Federal Passenger Company (FPK), Gazprom, Rosneft, Transneft and FGC UES.

Earlier in the day, the United States announced new sanctions against Russia. Seven more officials were included in the “black list”, including the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin (No. 1 in the ranking of the most valuable Russian top managers according to Forbes , total compensation for the year - $50 million), as well as 17 Russian banks and companies associated with one of the four Russian billionaires who were included in the US sanctions list in March.

The European Union on Tuesday, April 29, also published an expanded sanctions list, which included 15 more Russian and Ukrainian citizens. Canada added nine people to its list, including billionaires Arkady Rotenberg and Boris Rotenberg , and two small Russian banks, Expobank and Roenergobank.

S&P downgraded Lukoil's rating