The 69-year-old billionaire friend of Russia’s president owns the private investment firm Volga Group, which has holdings in energy, transport, infrastructure and financial services. Head of United Aircraft Corporation, a major supplier to Russia’s military and a key figure in its defence sector. Kirill Shamalov is Russia’s youngest billionaire. He is a shareholder and director of the petrochemical firm Sibur. Russia’s youngest billionaire and Vladimir Putin’s former son-in-law.

He controls transport businesses and has also been linked to Gazprom. The entry states he is sanctioned for having “ordered Russian military forces to launch an invasion of Ukraine, undermining and threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine”.Ī co-owner of SMP Bank, which is linked to the energy firm Gazprom, Rotenberg is described as having “close personal ties” to Putin, a friend since childhood when they trained in judo together.Ī nephew of Boris who also has close ties to Putin. The entry states he is sanctioned for attempts to “threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine”. Russia’s long-serving foreign minister, in post since February 2004.

Son of Aleksandr Bortnikov, the director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), who has been on the sanctions list since March 2021.Ĭhair and chief executive of Promsvyazbank, he is also the son of Mikhail Fradkov, a former prime minister of Russia and former director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).Ĭhair of Novikombank, a subsidiary of the major Russian state-backed defence business Rostec.Ĭhief of the Russian armed forces. IndividualsĪ deputy president of VTB Bank and chair of its management board. It has banned British people and businesses from making transactions with the Russian central bank, its finance ministry and its wealth fund. The Government’s said it would take “further restrictive economic measures” by targeting the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (CBR). Late on Monday 28 February, the UK added Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank, to the sanctions list, although it is only blocked from correspondent banking (holding money on behalf of other banks) and clearing transactions in sterling.

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