The United States imposed sanctions against Tina Kandelaki, her husband and the Serdyukov family

TV presenter Tina Kandelaki, former Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov, together with his family, KamAZ and Tupolev, Bank of Moscow, fell into the US sanctions lists. The updated list is published on the website of the US Department of Finance.

In total, 57 people replenished the list, many of whom are related to the Union of Volunteers of Donbass, and more than 100 organizations - mainly related to the defense industry.

Together with Kandelaki, her husband, Vasily Brovko, included on the list. In 2008, Brovko, together with his friend Oleg Berkovich, established the Apostol PR agency (was later renamed the New Strategy LLC), which began to engage in branding. One of the instruments of the image campaigns of the Apostle was the "Farm" of the Internet. Later, the wife of Brovko Tina Kandelaki, who had extensive connections in the highest business circles of Russia, entered the Apostle, and brought to the Apostle, in which she became a co-founder and general director, large customers.

In 2012, Apostol managed to receive state contracts with the Rostec state corporation and the largest Russian air carrier - Aeroflot. For its work with Rostec, Apostol received $ 1.5 million, and Aeroflot paid 64 million rubles in 2012. The contract with the latter was concluded without holding a competition, that is, with a violation of Russian legislation.

The close cooperation of the Apostle was not limited to corruption schemes in public procurement. In 2013, Brovko officially left the Apostle and became the director of communications, analytics and strategic research of Rostec. The co -founder of the Apostol Oleg Berkovich was later appointed to the post of assistant governor of Sevastopol, who was called Creator Chemezov, then headed one of the government departments. Together with Berkovich, a team of employees of the Apostol “Make a new city TV” came to Sevastopol. After the dismissal of the governor of Sevastopol, almost all of them went to work on the RTVI television channel.

In April, the United States imposed sanctions against the daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin, wife and daughter of the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, as well as against Sberbank and Alfa-Bank. Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Russia Dmitry Medvedev also found themselves under sanctions.

In addition to them, the governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, the head of the Federal Customs Service of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Bulavin, the President of the Russian Federation in the North Caucasus Federal District, Yuri Chaika, the head of the President of the Russian Federation, the Minister of Justice of the Russian Federation, Konstantin Chuychenko, Presidential President in the North-Western Federal District, Alexander Gutsan, fell under their sanctions. The head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation Anton Siluanov, deputy secretary of the Council of People's Commissars Rashid Nurgaliev, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev, plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District Igor Komarov.

In June, the Ministry of Finance also included Irek Fayzullin, head of the Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Reshetnikov, the head of the Ministry of Transport, Vitaly Savelyev and the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharov, in the sanctions list of the Minister of Construction and Housing.