In the new sanctions list of Ukraine

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky approved the decision of the National Security and Defense Council to impose sanctions against 147 individuals and 303 legal entities, mainly from Russia. The sanctions lists include, among others, the former Minister of Finance of Russia, the current adviser on corporate development of “Yandex” Aleksey Kudrin, as well as the former head of “Rosnano” Anatoly Chubais, who left Russia after the beginning of the large-scale invasion of Ukraine.

The list also includes the sons of the former Prosecutor General Yuriy Chaika, Artyom and Igor Chaika, the son of the former governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Ussa Artyom, Director General of TASS Andrey Kondrashov, commander of the “Center” troop group, Lieutenant General Andrey Mordvychev, Governor of the Stavropol Territory Vladimir Vladimirov, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, activist Military Industry Borys Alyoshin. The list also includes top managers of the USM group of companies of Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov – Nazim Efendiev, Vakhtang Kocharov and Valery Kazikaev.

The sanctioned lists include companies operating in the fields of aviation, construction and technology, including a number of regional Russian energy companies, “Shakhta imeni A.F. Zasyadko”, located in the Russian-controlled territory of the Donetsk region, a number of companies from the UAE, Uzbekistan, Cyprus , Turkey, China, Malta.

• Alexey Kudrin and Anatoly Chubais, whom some political scientists called “system liberals” and who at one time held high positions in the Russian power hierarchy and were close to President Vladimir Putin, did not speak publicly about the war in Ukraine. After the February 2022 invasion, Chubais left the post of special representative of the president and left Russia, but did not publicly condemn the war. Vladimir Putin recently commented on his departure, saying that he “left” the country and called him “Moshe Izrailevich” (Chubais left for Israel). In December 2022, after leaving the post of head of the Accounting Chamber, Kudrin became an advisor at Yandex. The United States imposed sanctions against him in the summer due to his work in the technological sector of the Russian economy. Chubais is not included in the sanctions lists in the West.