Yesterday in the Journal of the EU published a new list of individuals and organizations that have come under EU sanctions. It has a well-known names. But all organizations are limited only by units and structures related to the NAM? and LC. Thus, the Europeans have made it clear that, despite the Minsk agreement to abandon sanctions as a method of pressure on Russia is still too early.
In the published list – 19 names of those who, according to the authorities of the EU, supported by DNR and LC. Among them – the high-ranking officials of the Russian Ministry of Defense: First Deputy Minister Arkady Bakhin, Deputy Minister Anatoly Antonov, deputy chief of the General Staff, and Andrew Kartapolov. Of these sanctions is definitely the strongest impact on the work of Antonov, who from the time Minister Anatoly Serdyukov was in charge of the Office international cooperation. In contrast to the Ministry of Defense officials and one of the leaders of the Communist Party Valery Rashkin also got a new sanctions list, the deputy of the State Duma and the People’s Artist Joseph Kobzon EU sanctions are not used to. He, in fact, used to be under the influence of these sanctions: last year he was denied entry into Latvia. And since the mid-nineties singer also denied entry to the US, where he i s suspected of having links to organized crime. Kobzon took to his inclusion in the blacklist approximately the same as the other “victims” of the EU sanctions measures. In an interview with Tass, he said he was proud of getting into this list, although he admitted that the “mood” of him “this spoiled, of course.” It seems to cheer up people’s artist, Deputy Director of Information and Press of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova on his page on “Facebook” has acted in his support, and even assured him that she was ready to sing along to him personally – unless, of course, need.
Part of the list relating to the DNR and LC, was quite predictable: it included all of any notable representatives of unrecognized republics that do not fall under the sanctions previously adopted. This Department of Defense Corps Deputy Commander Edward Basurin DNR, DNR Minister of Justice Ekaterina Filippova, fiscal policy minister DNR Alexander Timofeev, Minister of Communications DNI Victor Yatsenko, head of the police DNR Sergey Ignatov, deputy head of the Council of Ministers LC Sergey Litvin, Minister of Justice Alexander Shubin LC, Minister of Economic Development LC Olga Besedina Acting Attorney General LC Zaur Ismailov, and finally, the three most famous commander of forces of the unrecognized republics – Paul Napping, Arseny Pavlov (call sign “Motorola”) and Mikhail Tolstoy (call sign “Givi”). It is interesting that the list was the unit commander and “Rusich” Alex Milchakov, located in a very complex relationship with LC: there were even reports that he had some time ago decided to fight on two fronts – against the “New Russia” and Ukraine. Same organization, were on the list, were armed units DNR and LC (“Hold”, “Dawn”, “Kalmius”, etc.), plus close to the former commander of forces DNR Igor Strelkov movement “New Russia».
According to the Head of the Department for European Security, Institute of Europe Dmitry Danilov, new sanctions on the one hand, of course, suggest that Europe is cautiously reacted to the agreements reached in Minsk, so as to talk about the practical results achieved is still too early – and therefore be too early to talk about the failure of sanctions as a means of pressure on Russia. However, the expert considers that the new sanctions take effect largely due to technical reasons. “The sanctions were passed to Minsk, – said Mr. Danilov” NO “. – So, to change this decision, it was necessary to hold a new meeting. But negotiate a new position on sanctions, either politically or technically the EU were simply not ready ».
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