EU blacklist includes Donetsk, Lugansk officials
2014-12-02
Posted by: badanov
Unable to find the relevant entries in the EU official journal, I was forced to go to the pro Russian military blogger Colonel Cassad for the information.
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By Chris Covert
Rantburg.com
Foreign ministers for the European Union published the names of 29 individuals and five "entities" which will be sanctioned by EU member states for their role in the November 2nd parliamentary and presidential elections in the breakaway republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, according to a blog entry by pro Russian military blogger Boris Rozhin.
According to statements emanating from Brussels, the November 2nd elections were "illegal" and "illegitimate", and violated the September 5th Ceasefire Accord signed in Minsk.
The new sanctions are in contrast to public statements by German chancellor Angela Merkel and other top European officials who said last week they did not want further sanctions against Russia for its role in the fighting in southeastern Ukraina.
Included on the list are:
Oleg Akimov, Head of the Federation of Trade Unions (Lugansk) ,
Larisa Hayrapetyan, Minister of Health (Lugansk)
Yuri Sivokonenko, Member of Parliament (Donetsk)
Alexander Kofman, Member of Parliament (Donetsk)
Sergei Kozjak, Head of the Central Election Committee (Lugansk)
Dmitry Semenov, Deputy Prime Minister for Finance (Lugansk)
Oleg Bugrov, Defense Minister (Lugansk)
Les Laptev, Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Religion (Lugansk)
Vladislav Dana, first deputy chairman of the People's Council (Lugansk)
Ravil Khalikov, vice-premier (Izium)
Yevgeny Mikhailov, head of the Council of Ministers (Izium)
Igor Kostenok, Education Minister (Izium)
Evgeny Orlov, head of the movement "Free Donbass" (Donetsk)
All 13 individuals are restricted from travel to the EU, and any banking assets they have are frozen. Rozhin commented in his blog he doubted any of the 13 listed had any intention of travel to the EU in the future, and likely had no assets there as well.
According to a news item posted online at rbc.ru, speaker of Izium parliament Dennis Pushilin has no assets in Europe. The article also said neither of the presidents of Lugansk and Donetsk, Igor Plotintskii and Zakharcheko, had any assets in Europe subject to the ban.
The 13 listed are in addition to others who were added back in April of 2014, around the time the wars in Lugansk and Donetsk started going hot.
According to Rozhin, the list includes 132 individuals and 28 organizations.
Among the entities affected by the sanction are:
Donetsk Republic (Donetsk)
Free Donbass (Donetsk)
World of Luhansk (Lugansk)
People's Union (Lugansk)
Lugansk Economic Union (Lugansk)
Chris Covert writes about foreign military issues for Rantburg.com. He can be reached at grurkka@gmail.com. You can read past articles about the 2014 war in southeastern Ukraina by clicking here.
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