“The EU Council revealed the details of additional personal sanctions applied to the hybrid destabilization activity of Russia against EU countries and partners. Source: “European Truth” with reference to the EU Council press service on May 20: EU additional restrictions have applied to 21 individuals and six legal entities relevant to the destabilization activity of the Russian Federation abroad.”, – WRITE: www.pravda.com.ua
Source: “European Truth” with reference to the EU Council press service on May 20
Details: EU additional restrictions have applied to 21 individuals and six legal entities relevant to the destabilization activity of the Russian Federation abroad.
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In addition, the EU Council has made it possible to apply measures against assets related to Russia’s destabilization activities – such as ships, aircraft, real estate, communication equipment, financial institutions or cryptocurrency companies, if directly or indirectly involved in destabilization.
“Given the systematic international Russian campaign for media manipulations and distortions of facts in order to destabilize neighboring countries and the EU, the EU Council now has the opportunity to suspend licenses for broadcasting Russian media companies, under the control of Russian leadership, and banned their broadcasting in the EU.
At the same time, these measures cannot prohibit other EU activities in such media resources, including interviews.
The sanction list lists the names of Viktor Medvedchuk and his associates Artem Marchevsky and Oleg Voloshin – for the promotion of pro -Russian propaganda against EU and Ukraine.
It is worth noting that Medvedchuk and Marchevsky, like the Voice of Europe Media Racesur, have already been under EU sanctions since May 2024. It is unknown what current updates are.
Also in the list are a number of persons who are considered involved in trying to undermine the democratic political process in Estonia and Germany. In particular, they call Alika Khuchbarov and Ilya Bocharov, who are considered to be GRU, German blogger Thomas River, Russian blogger Alina Lipp, Turkish AFA Medya and its founder Gussein Dogr, Elena Kolbasnikov, Yulia Khiskiv. journalistic investigation).
It is also Viktor Lugovenko and the news company African Initiative, which is engaged in pro -Russian narratives to African audience; Justen Blaise Taga is the head of the International Africa Media, and Michael Prudnikov, as well as for the systemic spread of pro -Russian and anti -Western narratives in Africa; Silven Affois, the founder of Black African Defense League (which France ordered to dissolve in 2021 for calls for hatred and violence).
Among the legal entities in the list – Stark Industries hosting service and its director Yuri Nekulita and owner Ivan Nekuliti. According to them, they provided supported by the Russian Federation to carry out different destabilization activities against the EU and third countries, from misinformation to cyberattacks.
NoreBo JSC and Murman Sea Foods were included in sanctions, which are thought to be involved in spy and sabotage, supported by the Russian Federation, including against submarine cables.
Also on the list is the main radio frequency center and its director Ruslan Nesterenko-which is considered responsible for the large-scale muffling of the GPS signal over the Baltic countries, which creates risks to civil aviation.
Sanctions envisage freezing assets, banning entry and transit through the EU and ban for EU legal entities and citizens to provide them with any funds.
Sanction data is one of series of packageswhich was prepared for approval on May 20.
In particular, the EU Council approved 17th EU sanctions package against for the war against Ukraine and individual sanctions For the use of chemical weapons against Ukraine.