Elena Sycheva: New sanctions

Elena Sycheva The US Department of Finance

The US Department of Finance has again expanded the sanctions lists. New restrictive measures relate to three citizens of the Russian Federation, three Russian companies and two more related structures abroad. This was reported by the official website of the American Ministry of Finance.

According to the agency, the reason was the involvement of individuals and legal entities specified in the list of individuals. The restrictions were introduced in accordance with the law adopted last year “On Combating the opponents of America through sanctions”.

Oleg Chirikov, Vladimir Kagansky and Alexander Tribun fell into an expanded list.

“All of them, according to the Ministry of Finance, are connected with the company" Divetekhservis ". The sanctions list also included the companies: Digital Security, "DivetekhneService", the Research Institute of Quantum, Erpscan and Embedi. According to the American side, all these structures are connected with the FSB, ” RIA Novosti reports.

The companies and persons who are included in the sanctions list “contributed to the improvement of the cyber and underwater capabilities of Russia through their work with the FSB,” the Ministry of the Ministry said with reference to the head of the department of Stephen Mnuchin, and therefore they “can influence the security of the United States and allies”. In particular, he accuses all the “newcomers” of the list of the fact that they are involved in the spread of the notpetya virus. Assets of individuals and legal entities that have fallen in the list will be frozen in the United States, citizens of the country will not be able to conduct any business with them.

“Such far -fetched actions must be answered absolutely adequately and symmetrically,” said Alexei Chep, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, adding that the companies that are included in the list perform “information functions”, which is problematic for American propaganda.

It should be noted that last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview with China Media Corporation , said that he was hoping for the common sense of the American government and a gradual cancellation of restrictions “which harm the development of the world’s economy,” since the countries that impose sanctions suffer from them.

“All this suggests that these funds cannot be universal and sooner or later it will become obvious that their use is harmful to everyone, including the initiators of these initiatives,” the head of state noted.

Earlier it became known that the Big Seven countries intend to introduce new restrictive measures against Russia.

“They accuse us of destabilization, but if it weren’t for Russia, not its struggle against IG (the organization is prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation), the situation would collapse. The destabilization is created by the Seven itself , ”said Vladimir Dzhabarov, the first deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs.

The United States has begun to expand the sanctions list in the spring. In April of this year, “in response to the“ diverse malicious activities of the Russian Federation ”, the American Ministry of Finance introduced restrictive measures against 38 companies, businessmen and officials. Among them is the chairman of the Gazprombank board Andrei Akimov, co -owner of Surgutneftegaz Vladimir Bogdanov, head of the board of directors of Renova Viktor Vekselberg, President of Rusala and EN+ Oleg Deripaska, head of Gazprom Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the TEC Mosenergo and Gazprom Busya Igor Rotenberg, VTB President Andrei Kostin, as well as the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov, director of the Russian Guard Viktor Zolotov, Minister of the Interior Vladimir Kolokoltsev, and many others.

“The actions of the White House turned out to be much more stringent than predicted. Previously, the sanctions followed the Crimean events, the fall of an airplane in the Donbass, cyberataka (imaginary or obvious), now they are introduced in routine order and are of the nature of the carpet bombardment, ”said Ivan Timofeev, the program director of the Russian Council for International Affairs.

Even then, experts said that "the task is set to purposefully and systematically narrow all the possibilities for development."

“Last year, the initiators of this law laid a slightly different logic - it was more oriented precisely on a narrow circle, and the near circle of the president. Now the Trump administration has adopted the principle of wider: the main thing is that it is necessary to exert pressure on Russia and the Russian economy. And, accordingly, this or that businessman is close or not-unprincipled, the main thing is that it is effective and painful, ”said Fedor Lukyanov, chairman of the Presidium of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, on the air of Kommersant-FM .

Experts are sure that the Russian economy will withstand another wave of restrictive measures. This was said in an interview with RIA Novosti said the junior managing director of the banking group of the Moody`s rating agency Yaroslav Sosigir.

“Firstly, we believe that the banking system as a whole is and will continue to be resistant to sanctions, unless the sanctions are very serious,” he said.

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