The United States has imposed new sanctions against Moscow

Washington expanded the Anti -Crelevo sanctions list, including 14 new persons and two organizations. This was reported on the website of the US Treasury.

Of the organizations, the Russian National Commercial Bank (RNKB) and the Eurasian Youth Union, headed by the philosopher Alexander Dugin, fell under the sanctions.

Dugin himself is also included in the sanctions list. Along with him, two more ECM leaders - Pavel Kanishchev and Andrey Kovalenko became the defendants in the list. Sanctions are also extended to the leaders of the occupation of the Crimea of ​​Crimea Sergey Abisov and the Federal Migration Service for Sevastopol Oleg Kozhuk.

In addition, the list included former prime minister and acting Premiere of Ukraine Nikolai Azarov and Sergey Arbuzov, as well as ex-minister of the country's healthcare, Raisa Bogatyrev.

Finally, six leaders of armed groups in eastern Ukraine fell under the sanctions. This is the "Secretary of the DPR Security Council", the commander of the Vostok battalion Alexander Khodakovsky, the acting head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the DPR "Ekaterina Gubareva (the wife of the" People's Governor "of the Donetskiy Pavel Gubareva, included in the sanctions list of Washington in December 2014)," Deputy Prime Minister of the DPR "Alexander Karaman," Head of the Central Executive Committee of the DPR "Roman" Lyagin, "Assistant Minister of Defense of the DPR" Sergey Zdrilyuk (Abwehr), as well as the "LPR Foreign Minister" Yuri Ivakin.

In late February, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced the preparation of new sanctions against Moscow at the end of February . He imposed the introduction of sanctions dependent on compliance or non -compliance by Russia with agreements concluded on February 12 in Minsk. At the same time, Kerry did not specify what exactly the new sanctions of Washington would be.