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The United States imposed sanctions against 23 Russian companies in connection with the Angesia of Crimea and the conflict in Ukraine. This was reported in the Communny of the US Department of Finance.

The sanctions list of companies included seven subsidiaries of the Almaz-Antei concern: the Red Banner plant, the Nizhny Novgorod Research Institute of Radio Engineering, the All-Russian Research Institute of Radio Statements, the Obukhov Plant, the Research Institute of Measures, the Research Institute of Measures, the Lianozovsky Electromechanical Plant and the Ural Production Enterprise "Vector".

The list also included the subsidiaries of the Radio Electronic Technologies concern-the Scientific Research Institute of Air Equipment, the NII of the Aviation Equipment, the Kaluga Research Radio Institute of Radio Engineering, the Kvant NPP, the Nizhny Novgorod Production Association named after Frunze, the Ryazan Instrumental Plant, KB Communications and the ELTU NPP.

In addition, the US Department of Finance included 18 people and five companies from Russia and Syria in the sanctions list in connection with violence in this country. The list included nine employees of Tempbank - the chairman of the board Nikolai Akhlomov, his deputy Elena Apanasenko and Irina Kozhenkova, the chairman of the supervisory board Andrei Dubnyak and members of the Bank Nabsovet, Dmitry Mityaev, Leonid Reshetnikov, Arkady Weinstein, Elena Zhirova.

The US Department of Finance included the Moscow Tempbank, as well as the chairman of his board Mikhail Gagloev on the Syria sanctions list back in 2014. The credit institution was in the "black list" for the provision of support to the Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

The deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Ryabkov, called the expansion of sanctions revenge for the achievements of Russia in Syria. "Otherwise, as an unworthy revenge for being achieved by Russia in the Syrian direction, for the successes that the Syrian side has recently demonstrated in the fight against a terrorist threat, this decision of the outgoing US administration cannot be called," the diplomat said. - Of course, we will protect the respected banking structure at our disposal, which ended up under expanded American sanctions. We will not allow the Americans through their sanctions tools to undermine our economic interests in Syria and in the Middle East. ”

On Tuesday, the oligarch Evgeny Prigozhin, who is called the "personal cook of Putin" and is associated with the private military company Wagner and the St. Petersburg "troll factory" fell under American sanctions. In addition to him, the list was supplemented by six more personalities. This is the president of the National Media Group Kirill Kovalchuk, the nephew of another Oligarch - Yuri Kovalchuk, who is close to Putin, as well as the chairman of the board of Sobinbank Oleg Minaev and four members of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia: Mikhail Dedov, Mikhail Klimin, Dmitry Lebedev and Dmitry Mansurov. The chairman of the board of directors and the main shareholder of the bank is Yuri Kovalchuk; He, like the bank itself, fell under US sanctions back in 2014.

Sanctions in connection with aggression in Ukraine are also imposed against eight enterprises. Among them are the "Crimean ports", as well as the "Crimean railways" - a division of Russian Railways. In addition, for the first time, sea vessels fell under the sanctions. These are oil tankers Marshal Zhukov and Stalingrad.

A list of enterprises that sectoric sanctions apply to. The list includes 26 more names. This is, in particular, about nine structures of the gas company Novatek and a number of elevators of the Krasnodar Territory.