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| 29.5.2014 | EN | Official Journal of the European Union | L 160/33 |
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29.5.2014

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 160/33

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COUNCIL DECISION 2014/308/CFSP

of 28 May 2014

amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 29 thereof,

Whereas:

| (1) | On 17 March 2014, the Council adopted Decision 2014/145/CFSP (1). |
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(1)

On 17 March 2014, the Council adopted Decision 2014/145/CFSP (1).

| (2) | The information for seventeen persons and two entities listed under Decision 2014/145/CFSP should be amended. |
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(2)

The information for seventeen persons and two entities listed under Decision 2014/145/CFSP should be amended.

| (3) | The Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP should be amended accordingly, |
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(3)

The Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP should be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP is hereby amended as set in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Done at Brussels, 28 May 2014.

For the Council

The President

E. VENIZELOS

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(1)  Council Decision 2014/145/CFSP of 17 March 2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ L 78, 17.3.2014, p. 16).

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ANNEX

The entries for the following persons and entities set out in the Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP are replaced by the entries below.

Persons:

| | Name | Identifying information | Statement of reasons | Date of listing |
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| | Vladimir Andreevich Konstantinov
  (Владимир Андреевич Константинов) | d.o.b. 19.11.1956
  Vladimirovca, Slobozia District, Republic of Moldova | As speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, Konstantinov played a relevant role in the decisions taken by the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea concerning the ‘referendum’ against the territorial integrity of Ukraine and called on voters to cast votes in favour of Crimean Independence. | 17.3.2014 |
| | Pyotr Anatolyevich Zima
  (Пётр Анатольевич Зима) | d.o.b. 29.3.1965 | Zima was appointed as the new head of the Crimean Security Service (SBU) on 3 March 2014 by ‘Prime Minister’ Aksyonov and accepted this appointment. He has given relevant information including a database to the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR). This included information on Euro-Maidan activists and human rights defenders of Crimea. He played a relevant role in preventing Ukraine's authorities from controlling the territory of Crimea.
  On 11 March 2014 the formation of an independent Security Service of Crimea was proclaimed by former SBU officers of Crimea. | 17.3.2014 |
| | Yuriy Gennadyevich Zherebtsov
  (Юрий Геннадьевич Жеребцов) | d.o.b. 19.11.1965 | Counsellor of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, one of the leading organizers of the 16 March 2014‘referendum’ against Ukraine's territorial integrity. | 17.3.2014 |
| | Anatoliy Alekseevich Sidorov
  (Анатолий Алексеевич Сидоров) | d.o.b. 2.7.1958 | Commander of Russia's Western Military District, units of which are deployed in Crimea. He is responsible for part of the Russian military presence in Crimea which is undermining the sovereignty of Ukraine and assisted the Crimean authorities in preventing public demonstrations against moves towards a ‘referendum’ and incorporation into Russia. | 17.3.2014 |
| | Aleksandr Viktorovich Galkin
  (Александр Викторович Галкин) | d.o.b. 22.3.1958 | Commander of Russia's Southern Military District ‘SMD’). SMD forces are deployed in Crimea. He is responsible for part of the Russian military presence in Crimea which is undermining the sovereignty of Ukraine and assisted the Crimean authorities in preventing public demonstrations against moves towards a ‘referendum’ and incorporation into Russia.
  The Black Sea Fleet comes under Galkin's command; much of the force movement into Crimea has come through the Southern Military District | 17.3.2014 |
| | Mikhail Grigoryevich Malyshev
  (Михаил Григорьевич Малышев) | d.o.b. 10.10.1955 | Chair of the Crimean Electoral Commission.
  Responsible for administering the Crimean ‘referendum’. Responsible under the Russian system for signing ‘referendum’ results. | 21.3.2014 |
| | Valery Kirillovich Medvedev
  (Валерий Кириллович Медведев) | d.o.b. 21.8.1946
  Russia | Responsible for administering the Crimean ‘referendum’. Responsible under the Russian system for signing ‘referendum’ results. | 21.3.2014 |
| | Lt. Gen. Igor Nikolaevich Turchenyuk
  (Игорь Николаевич Турченюк) | d.o.b. 5.12.1959
  Kirghizia/Osh | The de-facto Commander of Russian troops deployed on the ground in Crimea (whom Russia continues to refer to officially as ‘local self-defence militias’). | 21.3.2014 |
| | Elena Borisovna Mizulina
  (Елена Борисовна Мизулина) | d.o.b. 9.12.1954
  Buly, Kostroma Oblast | Originator and co-sponsor of recent legislative proposals in Russia that would have allowed regions of other countries to join Russia without their central authorities' prior agreement. | 21.3.2014 |
| | Valeriy Dmitrievich Bolotov
  (Валерий Дмитриевич Болотов) | d.o.b. 13.2.1970
  Stachanov, Lugansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR | One of the leaders of the separatist group ‘Army of the South-East’ which occupied the building of the Security Service in the Lugansk region. Before seizing the building he and other accomplices possessed arms apparently supplied illegally from Russia and from local criminal groups. | 29.4.2014 |
| | Andriy Yevgenevich Purgin
  (Андрей Евгеньевич Пургин) | d.o.b. 26. 1. 1972 | Head of the ‘Donetsk Republic’, active participant and organiser of separatist actions, co-ordinator of actions of the ‘Russian tourists’ in Donetsk. Co-founder of a ‘Civic initiative of Donbasfor the Eurasian Union’. | 29.4.2014 |
| | Sergey Gennadevich Tsyplakov
  (Сергей Геннадьевич Цыплаков) | d.o.b. 1.5.1983
  Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR | One of the leaders of the ideologically radical organization People's Militia of Donbas. He took active part in the seizure of a number of state buildings in the Donetsk region. | 29.4.2014 |
| | Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin a.k.a. Igor Strelkov
  (Игорь Всеволодович Гиркин) | d.o.b. 17.12.1970
  passport no. 4506460961 | Identified as staff of main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU). He was involved in incidents in Sloviansk. He is the assistant on security issues to Sergey Aksionov, self-proclaimed prime-minister of Crimea. | 29.4.2014 |
| | Viacheslav Ponomariov
  Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Ponomariov
  (Вячеслав Владимирович Пономарёв) | d.o.b. 2.5.1965
  Slovinsk | Self-declared mayor of Sloviansk. Ponomarev called on Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops to protect the city and later asked him to supply weapons. Ponomarev's men are involved in kidnappings (they captured Ukrainian reporters Irma Krat and Simon Ostrovsky, a reporter for Vice News. Both were later released. They detained military observers deployed under OSCE Vienna Document). | 12.5.2014 |
| | Igor Mykolaiovych Bezler
  Igor Nikolaevich Bezler,
  (Игорь Николаевич Безлер) | d.o.b. 30.12.1965
  Simferopol | One of the leaders of the self-proclaimed militia of Horlivka. He took control of the Security Service of Ukraine's office in the Donetsk region building and afterwards seized the Ministry of Internal Affairs' district station in the town of Horlivka. He has links to Igor Girkin under whose command he was involved in the murder of People's Deputy of the Horlivka's Municipal Council Volodymyr Rybak according to the SBU. | 12.5.2014 |
| | Oleg Tsariov
  Oleg Anatolevich Tsariov
  (Олег Анатолійович Царьов)
  (Олег Анатольевич Царёв) | d.o.b. 2.6.1970
  Dnipropetrovsk | Member of the Rada. Publicly called for the creation of the Federal Republic of Novorossia, composed of South Eastern Ukrainian regions. | 12.5.2014 |
| | Roman Lyagin
  (Роман Лягин) | d.o.b. 30.5.1980
  Donetsk | Head of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ Central Electoral Commission. Actively organised the referendum on 11 May on the self-determination of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. | 12.5.2014 |

Name

Identifying information

Statement of reasons

Date of listing

Vladimir Andreevich Konstantinov

(Владимир Андреевич Константинов)

d.o.b. 19.11.1956

Vladimirovca, Slobozia District, Republic of Moldova

As speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, Konstantinov played a relevant role in the decisions taken by the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea concerning the ‘referendum’ against the territorial integrity of Ukraine and called on voters to cast votes in favour of Crimean Independence.

17.3.2014

Pyotr Anatolyevich Zima

(Пётр Анатольевич Зима)

d.o.b. 29.3.1965

Zima was appointed as the new head of the Crimean Security Service (SBU) on 3 March 2014 by ‘Prime Minister’ Aksyonov and accepted this appointment. He has given relevant information including a database to the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR). This included information on Euro-Maidan activists and human rights defenders of Crimea. He played a relevant role in preventing Ukraine's authorities from controlling the territory of Crimea.

On 11 March 2014 the formation of an independent Security Service of Crimea was proclaimed by former SBU officers of Crimea.

17.3.2014

Yuriy Gennadyevich Zherebtsov

(Юрий Геннадьевич Жеребцов)

d.o.b. 19.11.1965

Counsellor of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, one of the leading organizers of the 16 March 2014‘referendum’ against Ukraine's territorial integrity.

17.3.2014

Anatoliy Alekseevich Sidorov

(Анатолий Алексеевич Сидоров)

d.o.b. 2.7.1958

Commander of Russia's Western Military District, units of which are deployed in Crimea. He is responsible for part of the Russian military presence in Crimea which is undermining the sovereignty of Ukraine and assisted the Crimean authorities in preventing public demonstrations against moves towards a ‘referendum’ and incorporation into Russia.

17.3.2014

Aleksandr Viktorovich Galkin

(Александр Викторович Галкин)

d.o.b. 22.3.1958

Commander of Russia's Southern Military District ‘SMD’). SMD forces are deployed in Crimea. He is responsible for part of the Russian military presence in Crimea which is undermining the sovereignty of Ukraine and assisted the Crimean authorities in preventing public demonstrations against moves towards a ‘referendum’ and incorporation into Russia.

The Black Sea Fleet comes under Galkin's command; much of the force movement into Crimea has come through the Southern Military District

17.3.2014

Mikhail Grigoryevich Malyshev

(Михаил Григорьевич Малышев)

d.o.b. 10.10.1955

Chair of the Crimean Electoral Commission.

Responsible for administering the Crimean ‘referendum’. Responsible under the Russian system for signing ‘referendum’ results.

21.3.2014

Valery Kirillovich Medvedev

(Валерий Кириллович Медведев)

d.o.b. 21.8.1946

Russia

Responsible for administering the Crimean ‘referendum’. Responsible under the Russian system for signing ‘referendum’ results.

21.3.2014

Lt. Gen. Igor Nikolaevich Turchenyuk

(Игорь Николаевич Турченюк)

d.o.b. 5.12.1959

Kirghizia/Osh

The de-facto Commander of Russian troops deployed on the ground in Crimea (whom Russia continues to refer to officially as ‘local self-defence militias’).

21.3.2014

Elena Borisovna Mizulina

(Елена Борисовна Мизулина)

d.o.b. 9.12.1954

Buly, Kostroma Oblast

Originator and co-sponsor of recent legislative proposals in Russia that would have allowed regions of other countries to join Russia without their central authorities' prior agreement.

21.3.2014

Valeriy Dmitrievich Bolotov

(Валерий Дмитриевич Болотов)

d.o.b. 13.2.1970

Stachanov, Lugansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR

One of the leaders of the separatist group ‘Army of the South-East’ which occupied the building of the Security Service in the Lugansk region. Before seizing the building he and other accomplices possessed arms apparently supplied illegally from Russia and from local criminal groups.

29.4.2014

Andriy Yevgenevich Purgin

(Андрей Евгеньевич Пургин)

d.o.b. 26. 1. 1972

Head of the ‘Donetsk Republic’, active participant and organiser of separatist actions, co-ordinator of actions of the ‘Russian tourists’ in Donetsk. Co-founder of a ‘Civic initiative of Donbasfor the Eurasian Union’.

29.4.2014

Sergey Gennadevich Tsyplakov

(Сергей Геннадьевич Цыплаков)

d.o.b. 1.5.1983

Donetsk, Ukrainian SSR

One of the leaders of the ideologically radical organization People's Militia of Donbas. He took active part in the seizure of a number of state buildings in the Donetsk region.

29.4.2014

Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin a.k.a. Igor Strelkov

(Игорь Всеволодович Гиркин)

d.o.b. 17.12.1970

passport no. 4506460961

Identified as staff of main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU). He was involved in incidents in Sloviansk. He is the assistant on security issues to Sergey Aksionov, self-proclaimed prime-minister of Crimea.

29.4.2014

Viacheslav Ponomariov

Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Ponomariov

(Вячеслав Владимирович Пономарёв)

d.o.b. 2.5.1965

Slovinsk

Self-declared mayor of Sloviansk. Ponomarev called on Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops to protect the city and later asked him to supply weapons. Ponomarev's men are involved in kidnappings (they captured Ukrainian reporters Irma Krat and Simon Ostrovsky, a reporter for Vice News. Both were later released. They detained military observers deployed under OSCE Vienna Document).

12.5.2014

Igor Mykolaiovych Bezler

Igor Nikolaevich Bezler,

(Игорь Николаевич Безлер)

d.o.b. 30.12.1965

Simferopol

One of the leaders of the self-proclaimed militia of Horlivka. He took control of the Security Service of Ukraine's office in the Donetsk region building and afterwards seized the Ministry of Internal Affairs' district station in the town of Horlivka. He has links to Igor Girkin under whose command he was involved in the murder of People's Deputy of the Horlivka's Municipal Council Volodymyr Rybak according to the SBU.

12.5.2014

Oleg Tsariov

Oleg Anatolevich Tsariov

(Олег Анатолійович Царьов)

(Олег Анатольевич Царёв)

d.o.b. 2.6.1970

Dnipropetrovsk

Member of the Rada. Publicly called for the creation of the Federal Republic of Novorossia, composed of South Eastern Ukrainian regions.

12.5.2014

Roman Lyagin

(Роман Лягин)

d.o.b. 30.5.1980

Donetsk

Head of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ Central Electoral Commission. Actively organised the referendum on 11 May on the self-determination of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.

12.5.2014

Entities:

| | Name | Identifying information | Statement of reasons | Date of listing |
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| | PJSC Chernomorneftegaz
  a.k.a Chornomornaftogaz | Prospekt Kirova/ per. Sovarkomovskji 52/1 Simferopol, Crimea | On 17 March 2014 the ‘Parliament of Crimea’ adopted a resolution declaring the appropriation of assets belonging to Chernomorneftegaz enterprise on behalf of the ‘Republic of Crimea’. The enterprise is thus effectively confiscated by the Crimean ‘authorities’. | 12.5.2014 |
| | Feodosia a.k.a Feodossyskoje
  Predprijatije po obespetscheniju nefteproduktami | 98107, Crimea, Feodosiya, Geologicheskaya str.2
  Company providing transhipment services for crude oil and oil products. | On 17 March 2014 the ‘Parliament of Crimea’ adopted a resolution declaring the appropriation of assets belonging to Feodosia enterprise on behalf of the ‘Republic of Crimea’. The enterprise is thus effectively confiscated by the Crimean ‘authorities’. | 12.5.2014 |

Name

Identifying information

Statement of reasons

Date of listing

PJSC Chernomorneftegaz

a.k.a Chornomornaftogaz

Prospekt Kirova/ per. Sovarkomovskji 52/1 Simferopol, Crimea

On 17 March 2014 the ‘Parliament of Crimea’ adopted a resolution declaring the appropriation of assets belonging to Chernomorneftegaz enterprise on behalf of the ‘Republic of Crimea’. The enterprise is thus effectively confiscated by the Crimean ‘authorities’.

12.5.2014

Feodosia a.k.a Feodossyskoje

Predprijatije po obespetscheniju nefteproduktami

98107, Crimea, Feodosiya, Geologicheskaya str.2

Company providing transhipment services for crude oil and oil products.

On 17 March 2014 the ‘Parliament of Crimea’ adopted a resolution declaring the appropriation of assets belonging to Feodosia enterprise on behalf of the ‘Republic of Crimea’. The enterprise is thus effectively confiscated by the Crimean ‘authorities’.

12.5.2014

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