The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control on August 2 announced new sanctions, targeting Russian collaborators, a major Russian metals company and a woman closely linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Source: US Department of Treasury
The sanctions target Publichnoe Aktsionernoe Obschestvo Magnitogorskiy Metallurgicheskiy Kombinat (MMK), described as “one of the world’s largest steel producers”, and two of its subsidiaries along with Alina Kabayeva, a former Olympic gymnast and former member of the State Duma and probably Putin’s common-law wife.
The Treasury Department said it has frozen the visa of Kabaeva, who it said has a “close relationship with Putin,” and imposed other property restrictions.
Earlier, the US did not decide on sanctions against the de facto wife of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Alina Kabaeva, due to fears that this would further inflame tensions in relations with Russia.
At the same time, the European Union, Canada and Great Britain have already introduced sanctions against Kabaeva.
Also, Russiaʼs richest billionaires were on the sanctioned list: Andrey Guryev, his son and his yacht Alfa Nero, Andriy Melnychenko, Oleksandr Ponomarenko, Dmytro Pumpiansky, and Viktor Rashnikov. Also under sanctions is businessman Anton Urusov (general director of the company “Promising Industrial and Infrastructure Technologies”). The president of the All-Russian Sambo Federation Serhiy Eliseev was also under sanctions.
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