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
Date: 2014-05-28
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Russia, Ukraine, economic sanctions, international sanctions, self-determination, territorial dispute, territorial law








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Official Journal of the European Union


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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).












(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,





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
            





(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).




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




 


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




 


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