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The US Department of Finance has published the Kremlin List provided by the new law on sanctions, Bloomberg reports . According to a report sent to Congress, it included 96 large businessmen who have a fortune of more than a billion dollars, as well as 114 officials and heads of state -owned companies close to Vladimir Putin.

All members of the Russian government, including Dmitry Medvedev, Igor Shuvalov, Arkady Dvorkovich, Sergey Lavrov, Yuri Trutnev, were included in the list. It includes Dmitry Peskov, Valentina Matvienko, Sergey Naryshkin, Anton Vaino, Sergey Kiriyenko, Vladislav Surkov, Vyacheslav Volodin, Alexander Bastrykin, Sergey Sobyanin.

Among the defendants in the list, Alexei Miller, Igor Sechin, German Gref, Andrei Kostin, Boris Kovalchuk, Sergey Gorkov, Alexey Likhachev, Vitaly Savelyev, Nikolai Tokarev and others.

Also in the list of businessmen Roman Abramovich, Alisher Usmanov, Vagit Alekperov, Peter Aven, Elena Baturina, Ananiev’s brothers, Leonid Fedun, Sergey Galitsky, Filaret Galchev, Roman Avdeev, Mikhail Gutseriev, Evgeny Kaspersky, Suleiman Kerimov, Igor Kesaev, Andrei Kosogov, Vladimir Kuzmichyv, Vladimir, Vladimir Lisin, Ziyavudin Magomedov, Iskander Makhmudov, Alexander Mamut, Leonid Michelson, Yuri Milner, Boris Mints, Alexei Mordashov, year Nisanov, Mikhail Prokhorov, Dmitry Pumpeyansky, Victor Rashnikov, Kirill Shamalov, Oleg Tinkov, Victor Vekselberg, Arkady Volozh, Vladimir Yevtushenkov.

In the appendix to a report that remains classified, persons with a lower condition and not among senior officials may include.

Russia has been refraining from the response to the publication of the Kremlin List, but it is not worth waiting for an endless surrender of positions from Moscow, Putin said on Tuesday at a meeting with trusted persons. He noted that he himself had not yet seen the list. “This is unconditionally, an unfriendly act. It complicates the already difficult situation in the Russian -American relations and is harmful, of course, international relations as a whole,” the president said. “This is complete stupidity - to turn our relations to zero. We will not have been waiting for this list. We will be ready to take back the steps, which would download our relations to zero. But we will hold back for now From these steps. "

“Behind each of the people and behind each of the structures are ordinary citizens of our country, labor groups, entire industries,” Putin said. “That is, in fact, all of us, all 146 million were brought to some list. What the meaning of such actions, I do not understand.”

Meanwhile, the Law on Countering the opponents of America through sanctions (Caatsa), signed by US President Donald Trump in August, did not allow Russia to sell weapons for billions of dollars. This was stated by the press secretary of the State Department of Hiser Neurt, reports Reuters.

“Today we informed Congress that this law and its implementation are restrained by sales of Russian defense industry products,” Neuert noted. “From the moment the law entered into force, foreign governments have abandoned the planned or previously declared procurement for several billion dollars of Russian military -industrial complex.”

Although from January 29, the United States in accordance with the law may impose sanctions against non -Russian organizations that are responsible for the main financial transactions with the intelligence services of Russia and the enterprises of the military -industrial complex, Washington will not rush to this. “From this point of view, if the law works, sanctions against specific companies or individuals are not required, since the legislation actually serves as a holding factor,” the State Department said.

The State Department will also not give “preliminary information about its actions of a sanction nature,” Neoert emphasized. "When and if there are sanctions that you can announce, we will do it," she said.

Neurt also refused to disclose the content of the secret briefings that the State Department held for specialized committees of the Congress.

Senator Republican Bob Korker, chairman of the Senate Committee on International Relations, said that he was sharing the position of the State Department. “We are satisfied with this process,” said the senator. “They (the State Department. - Ed.) Related very seriously.

In accordance with the Caatsa Law, on Monday, the State Department was supposed to submit a proposal to the Congress to tighten sanctions. This, in addition to the new sanctions list, is possible restrictive measures for operations related to the Russian public debt. In addition, the exclusion of Russian state banks from the SWIFT international settlement system is considered. In December, the chairman of Sberbank Gref called the "irrational" idea of ​​introducing such restrictions and predicted that after the introduction of new American sanctions, " The Cold War will seem to be a childhood fun ."