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210 Putin
In the released part of the “Kremlin report”, transferred to the US Congress, two lists of names: 114 large officials of Russia and heads of state -owned companies and 96 representatives of large businesses. There are no influential people in the lists
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The whole presidential army
The US administration fulfill the law “On Countering the opponents of America through sanctions” (Caatsa) on Monday, January 29, transferred to Congress the so -called “Kremlin report” of the US Treasury with a detailed list of businessmen and officials close to President Vladimir Putin and the ruling regime. The main criterion for getting into the list compiled by the US Treasury is the proximity to the Russian regime and personal condition (starting from $ 1 billion), the report said. Only an open part of the report consisting of 210 surnames is released.
Following the this principle, the US Treasury Black Fund was included in the list of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, all his deputies (including Igor Shuvalov, Arkady Dvorkovich, Dmitry Rogozin, Olga Golodets), other ministers and heads of federal departments and agencies. The report mentions the names of the leading employees of the presidential administration (Anton Vaino, Alexei Gromov and others), the presidential assistants (Vladislav Surkov, etc.) and several advisers, including Sergey Glazyev, Ombudsman Mikhail Fedotov, business ombudsman Boris Titov and children's Ombudsman.
The list included the heads of the Council of the Federation and the State Duma (Valentina Matvienko and Vyacheslav Volodin), the leaders of the SVR and the FSB (Sergey Naryshkin and Alexander Bortnikov) and other services and agencies. The Kremlin report also mention the majority of the heads of state-owned companies and state corporations (including VTB, Sberbank, Russian Railways), the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin, Vice President of Lukoil Leonid Fedun, the head of Rusneft Mikhail Gutseriev and his son Said Salam, Sergey Kiriyenko, head of Inter RAO Boris Kovalchuk, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Bank of Russia Yuri Kovalchuk, heads of VTB and Sberbank State Bank and Sberbank Andrei Kostin and German Gref and the head of other major semi -state companies.
The “List of Oligarchs”, among others, contains the names of Alisher Usmanov, Roman Abramovich, Suleiman Kerimov, Evgeny Kaspersky, Vagit Alekperov, Oleg Deripaska, Vladimir Potanin, Mikhail Prokhorov, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, Gennady Timchenko, Oleg Tinkov, Viktor Vekselberg, Viktor Vekselberg, Viktor Vekselberg, Viktor. Mikhail Friedman and Peter Aven.
The “list of oligarchs”, among others, contain the names of Alisher Usmanov, Roman Abramovich, Mikhail Prokhorov, Oleg Tinkov, Viktor Vekselberg, Mikhail Friedman and Peter Aven
Some of them were already under the sanctions, which was marked by stars. However, despite the impressiveness of the list, the report emphasizes that this is just a list and that it does not yet imply any sanctions against those who have not got into sanctions lists earlier.
The head of the US Treasury, Stephen Mnuchin, however, assures that sanctions will be imposed on the basis of the list: “I suspect that you have not seen the classified part of the report. There will be sanctions, and they will become the result of this report, ”he answered the question of one of the senators. “In no case should we think that we will not impose sanctions against people from this list,” said Mnuchin.
Who did not hit
At the same time, there are no several influential businessmen and officials in the list. There is no Chairman of the Central Bank of Elvira Nabiullina and the head of the State Corporation of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais. There are no chairmen of the highest Russian courts. There are no heads of state television channels and director of the Russian Agency Today Dmitry Kiselev, who has already fallen under sanctions. As there are no other television propagandists, including Vladimir Solovyov, who also visited previous sanctions lists. There are no leaders of pro -government parties and other politicians and social activists, with the exception of the heads of two chambers of parliament.
German Gref, but his long -time colleague, chapter
Rusnano Anatoly Chubais, he escaped this fate
Photo: gaidarforum.ru
The list contains Kirill Shamalov, who until recently was considered the son -in -law of Putin (the husband of his alleged daughter Katerina Tikhonova), but there is no father and business partner Nikolai Shamalov (co -owner of the Bank "Russia"), who is classified as Putin's closest friends.
There are no multimillionaires close to Putin, who are considered nominal owners of the Kremlin capital - including those who have already fallen under US sanctions Sergei Roldugin and Peter Kolbin.
We waited for too long
News from Washington on Monday January 29 in Moscow was waiting until late at night. The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov pretended that nothing was happening, and the American ambassador to the Russian Federation John Huntsman promised that everything would be fine. “The very publication of the list, it does not mean anything,” Peskov assured the journalists, promising that the Kremlin would analyze its consequences and try to protect the interests of Russian companies. However, he made it clear: in Moscow they consider the publication of the so -called “Kremlin report” a direct and obvious attempt to influence the electoral process in Russia.
The list does not have the chairman of the Central Bank of Elvira Nabiullina and the head of the State Corporation of RUSNANO Anatoly Chubais. There are no heads of state television channels and director of the Russian Agency Today Dmitry Kiselev, who has already fallen under sanctions. As there are no other television propagandists
For his part, the ambassador Huntsman tried to cross the intensity of passions: “What is important in the relations of the United States and Russia is how we move forward, you do not need to look back. We had a difficult year, perhaps the most difficult of all. 2018 was supposed to be better. ” The ambassador added that "in the USA and Russia there is still a lot of joint work to become better."
On the very evening, the general public reported that the State Department had handed over a report on the effectiveness of American sanctions against Moscow. However, the information even about this report was published very ordinary, already at a time when the federal departments in Washington closed. When the NT correspondent called the press service of the Ministry of Finance with a request to confirm that the document was really submitted, the duty officer replied that everyone had already gone home and only tomorrow will be responded to calls.
The first to announce the long -awaited event was Senator Ben Cardin, a senior democrat in the Foreign Affairs Committee. He noted that the administration "informed the Senate" on the issue of Russian sanctions. True, the legislator refused the provision of details.
Lost billions
Finally, the State Department was displayed by comments. “Today we have informed the Congress that the law“ On Countering the Opponents of America ”and its implementation allow to restrain transactions for the sale of Russian weapons,” said the official representative of the department, Hezer Nauert. According to her, "from the moment of the adoption of the legislation, foreign governments have abandoned the planned or declared transactions to acquire Russian weapons for several billion dollars."
Putin's son -in -law), but there is no father and senior
business partner Nikolai Shamalov
(considering Putin's friend) Photo: Charter97.org
Earlier it was reported that, together with the Kremlin report, from January 29, in accordance with the same Caatsa, new restrictive measures should begin to operate against 33 Russian organizations announced on October 26, 2017. Most of these organizations are the defense industry sector.
Another representative of the State Department, who asked not to name his name, noted that the results of the efforts made are still just starting to become tangible, since large military transactions are usually associated with the long terms of implementation. “In this regard, if the law works, then it actually becomes a restraint tool, and there is no need for sanctions regarding individual companies and persons,” the official said.
He also noted that additional details are contained in the secret report to Congress.
The State Department emphasized that sanctions against Russia will continue until its actions in the world will change. They also warned that new sanctions may not affect Russian companies as such, but their foreign partners who carry out military trade transactions with them. The department indicated that a number of warnings on this subject are already sent.
Two reports
The Law “On Countering the opponents of America through sanctions” US President Donald Trump signed on August 2, 2017. He had no choice: the document was approved by the absolute majority of the voices of members of the House of Representatives (419 against three) and senators (98 against two).
Boris Titov turned out to be the only candidate
to the presidency in the 2018 election included
In the list of US Department of Finance Photo: Kremlin.ru
The Law obliged the US Department of Finance together with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State to submit two detailed reports to the relevant committees of the Congress until February. The first is a list of oligarchs and senior officials close to the Russian regime. In addition, it should include information about “semi -state companies”, including information about their roles in the Russian economy, owners, beneficiaries and assets abroad (about how work on the sanctions lists was going on - read the interview of NT with Anders Oslund , which headed one of the groups that formed as part of the Washington Research Center The Atlantic Council). The second report should contain information about the consequences of a possible ban on investment in the Russian public debt. But about this, the second, the report, nothing has been reported yet.
Consequences for the defendants of the list
The fact that the publication of the “Kremlin report” will not lead to an automatic imposition of sanctions against those who were on the list, the American media wrote in the fall. However, it was assumed that it would significantly complicate for them any kind of international activity - investment, banking and financial. They wrote that even an ordinary tourist trip could be very problematic for them.
It is no coincidence that reports about the atmosphere of fear and anxiety among the Russian oligarchs living or investing abroad: in recent months they have invested a lot of funds to find out who exactly ended up in the lists. They also wrote that these panic moods turned the proximity to President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin “toxic assets” . The New York Times quotes Michael Kaputo, former Trump adviser during his election campaign, and now a consultant to many communications Russians: “I have never encountered this level of hype. This distant thunder, whose background we hear, are dozens of Russian oligarchs hire and load the best American lawyers. ”
The fact that the publication of the “Kremlin report” will not lead to an automatic imposition of sanctions against those who were on the list, the American media wrote in the fall. However, it was assumed that it would significantly complicate for them any kind of international activity - investment, banking and financial
All this time, only speculations about whether the list will be made public or remain closed to the public (any option) will be in the press and how many people can appear in it (according to various speculations, from 40 to 400 people). The Bell reported that one of the criteria for determining the proximity of the businessman to the Russian authorities may be the fact of his or his companies of large -scale state support - from about $ 300 million.
It will only be worse
Dmitry Peskov’s words about the desire of the Americans to influence with the help of the “Kremlin report” on the course of the Russian elections, experts are sure, not so far from the truth. The very entering this list, not even providing for any restrictive measures, should exert psychological pressure on the Russian elite.
The Democrat-Democrat Benjamin Cardin in an interview with The New York Times expressed confidence that this report will force some in Russia to seriously think: “I think the output of this“ report ”is horrified by those who do not want to be on the list or somehow associate with Putin's regime.”
“Their excitement must be used so that it becomes completely clear that Putin’s aggression will have consequences for the Russian elite,” Daniel Frida, expert Atlantic Council, who developed the criteria for entering the sanctions list, said to the publication.
Since President Trump occupied the White House, Russia has acquired a very special place in American politics, reminds Mathieu Bulelet , an expert on Russia of the British Royal Institute of International Relations Chathamhouse. Russia has become for the Americans not just another “game state”, but also a sick place in issues of domestic politics because of the constantly going investigation of the Kremlin’s intervention in the US presidential election. No matter how Trump is personally related to Putin, the political and military American establishment sees in Russia the threat of the national interests of the country and the democratic values of the Western world, the state consciously trying to imbalance into the post -war world system, destabilize and unbalanced the West.
“The deterioration of American-Russian relations increases the possibility of tactical mistakes and provocations from which a military confrontation can erupt. Any routine incident can be a potential trigger: Russian planes that flooded NATO surface ships in the Black and Baltic Seas; unprofessional air interception in the Syrian sky; A demonstration of power and military exercises in neighboring countries with NATO countries, ”Bollet writes in a comment that has been released the other day.
“In such a situation and taking into account the one who is at the head of Moscow and Washington and the general disorder of the system of international institutions, American-Russian relations can only worsen,” Mathieu Bulel is sure. The question "to what extent" in this situation remains open.