Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/1524 of 14 September 2015 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine
Date: 2015-09-14
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Russia, Ukraine, economic sanctions, international sanctions, removal, self-determination, territorial dispute, territorial law








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15.9.2015   


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Official Journal of the European Union


L 239/157








            COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2015/1524
of 14 September 2015
         
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) concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.












(2)


On 13 March 2015, the Council adopted Decision (CFSP) 2015/432 (2) thereby renewing the measures for a further six months.












(3)


In view of the continued undermining or threatening of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, Decision 2014/145/CFSP should be amended and those measures renewed for a further six months.












(4)


On the basis of a review by the Council, the entries in the Annex should be amended and the entry for one deceased person should be deleted.












(5)


Decision 2014/145/CFSP should be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:



Article 1
Decision 2014/145/CFSP is amended as follows:






(1)


in Article 6, the second paragraph is replaced by the following:
‘This Decision shall apply until 15 March 2016.’;










(2)


the Annex is amended as set out in the Annex to this Decision.






Article 2
This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.




Done at Brussels, 14 September 2015.


For the Council


The President

J. ASSELBORN
            





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

(2)  Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/432 of 13 March 2015 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine (OJ L 70, 14.3.2015, p. 47).




ANNEX

I.   
The following person is deleted from the list set out in the Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP:

Persons







72.


Oleksiy Borisovych MOZGOVY






II.   
The entries for the following persons and for one entity set out in the Annex to Decision 2014/145/CFSP are replaced by the following:

Persons










 


Name


Identifying information


Reasons


Date of listing




1.


Sergey Valeryevich AKSYONOV,
Sergei Valerievich AKSENOV (Сер Валерьевич AKCëHOB),
Serhiy Valeriyovych AKSYONOV (Сергiй Валерiйович Аксьонов)


DOB: 26.11.1972
POB: Beltsy (Bălţi), now Republic of Moldova


Aksyonov was elected ‘Prime Minister of Crimea’ in the Crimean Verkhovna Rada on 27 February 2014 in the presence of pro-Russian gunmen. His ‘election’ was decreed unconstitutional by Oleksandr Turchynov on 1 March 2014. He actively lobbied for the ‘referendum’ of 16 March 2014. As of 9 October 2014, the ‘Head’ of the so-called ‘Republic of Crimea’.
Member of the Presidium of the Russia State Council.


17.3.2014




2.


Vladimir Andreevich Konstantinov
(Владимир Андреевич Константинов)


DOB: 19.11.1956
POB: Vladimirovka (a.k.a Vladimirovca), Slobozia Region, Moldavian SSR (now Republic of Moldova) or
Bogomol, Moldavian SSR


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


17.3.2014




3.


Rustam Ilmirovich Temirgaliev
(Рустам Ильмирович Темиргалиев)


DOB: 15.8.1976
POB: Ulan-Ude, Buryat ASSR
(Russian SFSR)


As former Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea, Temirgaliev played a relevant role in the decisions taken by the Verkhovna Rada concerning the ‘referendum’ against territorial integrity of Ukraine. He lobbied actively for the integration of Crimea into the Russian Federation.


17.3.2014




4.


Denis Valentinovich Berezovskiy
(Денис Валентинович Березовский)


DOB: 15.7.1974
POB: Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR


Berezovskiy was appointed commander of the Ukrainian Navy on 1 March 2014 but thereafter swore an oath to the Crimean armed forces, thereby breaking his oath to the Ukrainian Navy.
He was then appointed Deputy Commander of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation.


17.3.2014




5.


Aleksei Mikhailovich Chaliy
(Алексей Михайлович Чалый)


DOB: 13.6.1961
POB: Moscow or Sevastopol


Chaliy became ‘Mayor of Sevastopol’ by popular acclamation on 23 February 2014 and accepted this ‘vote’. He actively campaigned for Sevastopol to become a separate entity of the Russian Federation following a referendum on 16 March 2014. He signed the Treaty on the adoption of the Republic of Crimea by Russia. Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of the City of Sevastopol.


17.3.2014




6.


Pyotr Anatoliyovych Zima
(Пётр Анатольевич Зима)


DOB: 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 (SBU). 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




7.


Yuriy Gennadyevich Zherebtsov
(Юрий Геннадиевич Жеребцов)


DOB: 19.11.1969
POB: Izmail, Odessa Region, Ukrainian SSR or Odessa


Counsellor of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, one of the leading organisers of the 16 March 2014‘referendum’ against Ukraine's territorial integrity. Member of the Civic Chamber of the so-called ‘Republic of Crimea’.


17.3.2014




8.


Sergey Pavlovych Tsekov
(Сергей Павлович Цеков)


DOB: 29.9.1953 or 23.9.1953
POB: Simferopol


Vice Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada; Tsekov initiated, together with Sergey Aksyonov, the unlawful dismissal of the government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (ARC). He drew Vladimir Konstantinov into this endeavour, threatening him with dismissal. He publicly recognised that the MPs from Crimea were the initiators of inviting Russian soldiers to take over the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea. He was one of the first Crimean Leaders to ask in public for the annexation of Crimea to Russia.
Member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation from the so-called ‘Republic of Crimea’.


17.3.2014




9.


Ozerov, Viktor Alekseevich
(Виктор Алексеевич Озеров)


DOB: 5.1.1958
POB: Abakan, Khakassia


Chairman of the Security and Defence Committee of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
On 1 March 2014 Ozerov, on behalf of the Security and Defence Committee of the Federation Council, publicly supported, in the Federation Council, the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.


17.3.2014




10.


Dzhabarov, Vladimir Michailovich
(Владимир Михайлович Джабаров)


DOB: 29.9.1952


First Deputy-Chairman of the International Affairs Committee of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
On 1 March 2014 Dzhabarov, on behalf of the International Affairs Committee of the Federation Council, publicly supported, in the Federation Council, the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.


17.3.2014




11.


Klishas, Andrei Aleksandrovich
(Андрей Александрович Клишас)


DOB: 9.11.1972
POB: Sverdlovsk


Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Law of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
On 1 March 2014 Klishas publicly supported, in the Federation Council, the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine. In public statements Klishas sought to justify a Russian military intervention in Ukraine by claiming that ‘the Ukrainian President supports the appeal of the Crimean authorities to the President of the Russian Federation on landing an all-encompassing assistance in defence of the citizens of Crimea’.


17.3.2014




12.


Ryzhkov, Nikolai Ivanovich
(Николай Иванович Рыжков)


DOB: 28.9.1929
POB: Dyleevka, Donetsk region, Ukrainian SSR


Member of the Committee for federal issues, regional politics and the North of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
On 1 March 2014 Ryzhkov publicly supported, in the Federation Council, the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.


17.3.2014




13.


Bushmin, Evgeni Viktorovich
(Евгений Викторович Бушмин)


DOB: 4.10.1958
POB: Lopatino, Sergachiisky region, RSFSR


Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
On 1 March 2014 Bushmin publicly supported in the Federation Council the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.


17.3.2014




14.


Totoonov, Aleksandr Borisovich
(Александр Борисович Тотоонов)


DOB: 3.4.1957
POB: Ordzhonikidze, North Ossetia


Member of the Committee on culture, science, and information of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.
On 1 March 2014 Totoonov publicly supported, in the Federation Council, the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.


17.3.2014




15.


Panteleev, Oleg Evgenevich
(Олег Евгеньевич Пантелеев)


DOB: 21.7.1952
POB: Zhitnikovskoe, Kurgan region


Former First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Parliamentary Issues of the Federation Council.
On 1 March 2014 Panteleev publicly supported, in the Federation Council, the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.


17.3.2014




16.


Mironov, Sergei Mikhailovich
(Сергей Михайлович Миронов)


DOB: 14.2.1953
POB: Pushkin, Leningrad region


Member of the Council of the State Duma; Leader of Fair Russia faction in the Duma of the Russian Federation.
Initiator of the bill allowing Russian Federation to admit in its composition, under the pretext of protection of Russian citizens, territories of a foreign country without the consent of that country or an international treaty.


17.3.2014




17.


Zheleznyak, Sergei Vladimirovich
(Сергей Владимирович Железняк)


DOB: 30.7.1970
POB: St. Petersburg (former Leningrad)


Deputy Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
Actively supporting use of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. He led personally the demonstration in support of the use of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine.


17.3.2014




18.


Slutski, Leonid Eduardovich
(Леонид &amp;amp;#x042D;дуардович Слуцкий)


DOB: 4.1.1968
POB: Moscow


Chairman of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Committee of the State Duma of the Russian Federation (member of the LDPR).
Actively supporting use of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea.


17.3.2014




19.


Vitko, Aleksandr Viktorovich
(Александр Викторович Витко)


DOB: 13.9.1961
POB: Vitebsk (Belarusian SSR)


Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice-Admiral.
Responsible for commanding Russian forces that have occupied Ukrainian sovereign territory.


17.3.2014




20.


Sidorov, Anatoliy Alekseevich
(Анатолий Алексеевич Сидоров)


DOB: 2.7.1958
POB: Siva, Perm region, USSR


Commander, 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 the Ukraine and assisted the Crimean authorities in preventing public demonstrations against moves towards a referendum and incorporation into Russia.


17.3.2014




21.


Galkin, Viktorovich Aleksandr
(Александр Викторович Галкин)


DOB: 22.3.1958
POB: Ordzhonikidze, North Ossetian ASSR


Russia's Southern Military District, forces of which are in Crimea; the Black Sea Fleet comes under Galkin's command; much of the force movement into Crimea has come through the Southern Military District.
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 the Ukraine and assisted the Crimean authorities in preventing public demonstrations against moves towards a referendum and incorporation into Russia. Additionally the Black Sea Fleet falls within the District's control.


17.3.2014




22.


Rogozin, Dmitry Olegovich
(Дмитрий Олегович Рогозин)


DOB: 21.12.1963
POB: Moscow


Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Publicly called for the annexation of Crimea.


21.3.2014




23.


Glazyev, Yurievich Sergey
(Сергей Юрьевич Глазьев)


DOB: 1.1.1961
POB: Zaporozhye, (Ukrainian SSR)


Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation. Publicly called for the annexation of Crimea.


21.3.2014




24.


Matviyenko, Valentina Ivanova (born Tyutina)
(Валентина Ивановна Матвиенко (born Тютина))


DOB: 7.4.1949
POB: Shepetovka, Khmelnitsky (Kamenets-Podolsky) region (Ukrainian SSR)


Speaker of the Federation Council. On 1 March 2014, publicly supported, in the Federation Council, the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.


21.3.2014




25.


Naryshkin, Sergei Evgenevich
(Сергей Евгеньевич Нарышкин)


DOB: 27.10.1954
POB: St Petersburg (former Leningrad)


Speaker of the State Duma. Publicly supported the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine. Publicly supported the Russia-Crimea reunification treaty and the related federal constitutional law.


21.3.2014




26.


Dmitry Konstantinovich KISELYOV,
Dmitrii Konstantinovich KISELEV
(Дмитрий Константинович Киселёв)


DOB: 26.4.1954
POB: Moscow


Appointed by Presidential Decree on 9 December 2013 Head of the Russian Federal State news agency ‘Rossiya Segodnya’.
Central figure of the government propaganda supporting the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.


21.3.2014




27.


Nosatov, Alexander Mihailovich
(Александр Михайлович Носатов)


DOB: 27.3.1963
POB: Sevastopol, (Ukrainian SSR)


Deputy-Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Rear-Admiral.
Responsible for commanding Russian forces that have occupied Ukrainian sovereign territory.


21.3.2014




28.


Kulikov, Valery Vladimirovich
(Валерий Владимирович Куликов)


DOB: 1.9.1956
POB: Zaporozhye, (Ukrainian SSR)


Deputy-Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Rear Admiral.
Responsible for commanding Russian forces that have occupied Ukrainian sovereign territory.


21.3.2014




29.


Surkov, Vladislav Yurievich
(Владислав Юрьевич Сурков)


DOB: 21.9.1964
POB: Solntsevo, Lipetsk region


Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. He was an organiser of the process in Crimea by which local Crimean communities were mobilised to stage actions undermining the Ukrainian authorities in Crimea.


21.3.2014




30.


Mikhail Grigorievich Malyshev
(Михаил Григорьевич Малышев)


DOB: 10.10.1955
POB: Simferopol, Crimea


Chair of the Crimea Electoral Commission. Responsible for administering the Crimean referendum. Responsible under the Russian system for signing referendum results.


21.3.2014




31.


Valery Kirillovich Medvedev
(Валерий Кириллович Медведев)


DOB: 21.8.1946
POB: Shmakovka, Primorsky region


Chair of Sevastopol Electoral Commission. Responsible for administering the Crimean referendum. Responsible under the Russian system for signing referendum results.


21.3.2014




32.


LTL. Gen. Igor Nikolaevich (Mykolayovich) Turchenyuk
(Игорь Николаевич Турченюк)


DOB: 5.12.1959
POB: Osh, Kyrgyz SSR


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’). Deputy Commander of the Southern Military District.


21.3.2014




33.


Elena Borisovna Mizulina (born Dmitriyeva)
(Елена Борисовна Мизулина (born Дмитриева)


DOB: 9.12.1954
POB: Bui, Kostroma region


Deputy in the State Duma. 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




34.


Dmitry Nikolayevich Kozak
(Дмитрий Николаевич Козак)


DOB: 7.11.1958
POB: Bandurovo, Kirovograd region, Ukrainian SSR


Deputy Prime Minister. Responsible for overseeing the integration of the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation.


29.4.2014




35.


Oleg Yevgenyvich Belaventsev
(Олег Евгеньевич Белавенцев)


DOB: 15.9.1949
POB: Moscow


Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation into the so-called ‘Crimean Federal District’, Non-permanent member of the Russian Security Council. Responsible for the implementation of the constitutional prerogatives of the Russian Head of State on the territory of the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea.


29.4.2014




36.


Oleg Genrikhovich Savelyev
(Олег Генрихович Савельев)


DOB: 27.10.1965
POB: Leningrad


Minister for Crimean Affairs. Responsible for the integration of the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation.


29.4.2014




37.


Sergei Ivanovich Menyailo
(Сергей Иванович Меняйло)


DOB: 22.8.1960
POB: Alagir, North- Ossetian
Autonomous SSR, RSFSR


Governor of the Ukrainian annexed city of Sevastopol.


29.4.2014




38.


Olga Fedorovna Kovitidi
(Ольга Фёдоровна Ковитиди)


DOB: 7.5.1962
POB: Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR


Member of the Russian Federation Council from the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea.


29.4.2014




40.


Sergei Ivanovich Neverov
(Сергей Иванович Неверов)


DOB: 21.12.1961
POB: Tashtagol, USSR


Deputy Chairman of State Duma, United Russia. Responsible for initiating legislation to integrate the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation.


29.4.2014




41.


Igor Dmitrievich SERGUN
(Игорь Дмитриевич Сергун)


DOB: 28.3.1957
POB: Podolsk, Moscow Oblast


Director of GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate), Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General. Responsible for the activity of GRU officers in Eastern Ukraine.


29.4.2014




42.


Valery Vasilevich Gerasimov
(Валерий Васильевич Герасимов)


DOB: 8.9.1955
POB: Kazan


Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army. Responsible for the massive deployment of Russian troops along the border with Ukraine and lack of de-escalation of the situation.


29.4.2014




43.


German Prokopiv


 


Active leader of the ‘Lugansk Guard’. Took part in the seizure of the building of the Lugansk regional office of the Security Service. Close links with the ‘Army of the South-East’.


29.4.2014




44.


Valeriy Dmitrievich Bolotov
(Валерий Дмитриевич Болотов)


DOB: 13.2.1970
POB: Luhansk


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. Retired officer. Before seizing the building he and other accomplices possessed arms apparently supplied illegally from Russia and from local criminal groups.


29.4.2014




45.


Andriy Yevgenovych PURGIN
(Андрiй Eвгенович Пургiн),
Andrei Evgenevich PURGIN
(Андрей Евгеньевич Пургин)


DOB: 26.1.1972
POB: Donetsk


Former Head of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’, active participant and organiser of separatist actions, coordinator of actions of the ‘Russian tourists’ in Donetsk. Co-founder of a ‘Civic Initiative of Donbass for the Eurasian Union’. So-called ‘Chairman’ of the ‘People's Council of the Donetsk People's Republic’.


29.4.2014




46.


Denys Volodymyrovych PUSHYLIN
(Денис Володимирович Пушилiн),
Denis Vladimirovich PUSHILIN
(Денис Владимирович Пушилин)


DOB: 9.5.1981 or 9.5.1982
POB: Makiivka (Donetsk oblast)


One of the leaders of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. Participated in the seizure and occupation of the regional administration. Active spokesperson for the separatists. So-called Deputy Chairman of the ‘People's Council’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.


29.4.2014




47.


Tsyplakov Sergey Gennadevich


DOB: 1.5.1983
POB: Khartsyzsk, Donetsk Oblast


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


29.4.2014




48.


Igor Vsevolodovich Girkin
(Игорь Всеволодович Гиркин) a.k.a. Igor Strelkov (Ihor Strielkov)


DOB: 17.12.1970
POB: Moscow


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 an assistant on security issues to Sergey Aksionov, self-proclaimed prime minister of Crimea. Head of ‘Novorossia’ public movement.


29.4.2014




49.


Vyacheslav Viktorovich Volodin
(Вячеслав Викторович Володин)


DOB: 4.2.1964
POB: Alekseevka, Saratov region.


First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia. Responsible for overseeing the political integration of the annexed Ukrainian region of Crimea into the Russian Federation.


12.5.2014




50.


Vladimir Anatolievich Shamanov
(Владимир Анатольевич Шаманов)


DOB: 15.2.1957
POB: Barnaul.


Commander of the Russian Airborne Troops, Colonel-General. In his senior position, holds responsibility for the deployment of Russian airborne forces in Crimea.


12.5.2014




51.


Vladimir Nikolaevich Pligin
(Владимир Николаевич Плигин)


DOB: 19.5.1960
POB: Ignatovo,
Vologodsk Oblast, USSR.


Chair of the Duma Constitutional Law Committee. Responsible for facilitating the adoption of legislation on the annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol into the Russian Federation.


12.5.2014




52.


Petr Grigorievich JAROSH
(Петр Григорьевич Ярош)


DOB: 30.1.1971 or 16.3.1966
POB: Skvortsovo village, Simferopol region, Crimea


Head of the Federal Migration Service office for Crimea. Responsible for the systematic and expedited issuance of Russian passports for the residents of Crimea.


12.5.2014




53.


Oleg Grigorievich Kozyura
(Олег Григорьевич Козюра)


DOB: 19.12.1962
POB: Zaporozhye


Head of the Federal Migration Service office for Sevastopol. Responsible for the systematic and expedited issuance of Russian passports for the residents of Sevastopol.


12.5.2014




54.


Viacheslav PONOMARIOV,
Vyacheslav Volodymyrovich PONOMARYOV
(В'ячеслав Володимирович Пономарьов),
Viacheslav Vladimirovich PONOMAREV
(Вячеслав Владимирович Пономарëв)


DOB: 2.5.1965
POB: Sloviansk (Donetsk oblast)


Former self-declared mayor of Slaviansk. Ponomariov called on Vladimir Putin to send in Russian troops to protect the city and later asked him to supply weapons. Ponomariov's men are involved in kidnappings (they captured Irma Krat and Simon Ostrovsky, a reporter for Vice News, both were later released, they detained military observers under the OSCE Vienna Document). Remains active in supporting separatist actions and policies.


12.5.2014




55.


Igor Nikolaevich Bezler
(Игорь Николаевич Безлер) a.k.a. Bes (devil)


DOB: 30.12.1965
POB: Simferopol,Crimea


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


12.5.2014




57.


Oleg TSARIOV,
Oleh Anatoliyovych TSAROV
(Олег Анатолтович Царьов),
Oleg Anatolevich TSAREV
(Олег Анатольевич Цаpëв)


DOB: 2.6.1970
POB: Dnepropetrovsk


Former Member of the Rada, as such publicly called for the creation of the so-called ‘Federal Republic of Novorossiya’, composed of south-eastern Ukrainian regions. Remains active in supporting separatist actions or policies.


12.5.2014




58.


Roman Viktorovich Lyagin
(Роман Викторович Лягин)


DOB: 30.5.1980,
POB: Donetsk, Ukraine


Head of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ Central Electoral Commission. Actively organised the referendum on 11 May 2014 on the self-determination of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. Former ‘Minister of Labour and Social Policy’.


12.5.2014




59.


Aleksandr Sergeevich MALYKHIN,
Alexander Sergeevich MALYHIN
(Александр Сергеевич Малнхин)


DOB: 12.1.1981


Head of the ‘Lugansk People's Republic’ Central Electoral Commission. Actively organised the referendum on 11 May 2014 on the self-determination of the ‘Lugansk People's Republic’.


12.5.2014




60.


Natalia Vladimirovna Poklonskaya
(Наталья Владимировна Поклонская)


DOB: 18.3.1980
POB: Mikhailovka, Voroshilovgrad region, Ukrainian SSR or Yevpatoria, Ukrainian SSR


Prosecutor of Crimea. Actively implementing Russia's annexation of Crimea.


12.5.2014




61.


Igor Sergeievich Shevchenko
(Игорь Сергеевич Шевченко)


POB: Sevastopol, Crimea


Prosecutor of Sevastopol. Actively implementing Russia's annexation of Sevastopol.


12.5.2014




62.


Aleksandr Yurevich BORODAI
(Александр Юрьевич Бородай)


DOB: 25.7.1972
POB: Moscow


Former so-called ‘Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic’, as such responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘government of the Donetsk People's Republic’ (e.g. on 8 July 2014 stated ‘our military is conducting a special operation against the Ukrainian “fascists”’), signatory of the Memorandum of Understanding on ‘Novorossiya union’. Remains active in supporting separatist actions or policies.


12.7.2014




63.


Alexander KHODAKOVSKY,
Oleksandr Serhiyovych KHODAKOVSKIY
(Олександр Сергiйович Ходаковський),
Aleksandr Sergeevich KHODAKOVSKII
(Александр Сергеевич Ходаковский)


DOB: 18.12.1972
POB: Donetsk


Former so-called ‘Minister of Security of the Donetsk People's Republic’, as such responsible for the separatist security activities of the so-called ‘government of the Donetsk People's Republic’. Remains active in supporting separatist actions or policies.


12.7.2014




64.


Alexandr Aleksandrovich KALYUSSKY,
(Александр Александрович Калюсский)


DOB: 9.10.1975


So-called ‘de facto Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs of the Donetsk People's Republic’. Responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘government of the Donetsk People's Republic’.


12.7.2014




65.


Alexander KHRYAKOV,
Aleksandr Vitalievich KHRYAKOV
(Александр Витальевич Хряков),
Oleksandr Vitaliyovych KHRYAKOV
(Олександр ВiTалiйович Хряков)


DOB: 6.11.1958
POB: Donetsk


Former so-called ‘Information and Mass Communications Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic’. Responsible for the pro-separatist propaganda activities of the so-called ‘government of the Donetsk People's Republic’.


12.7.2014




66.


Marat Faatovich BASHIROV
(Марат Фаатович Баширов)


DOB: 20.1.1964
POB: Izhevsk, Russian Federation


Former so-called ‘Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers of the Lugansk People's Republic’, confirmed on 8 July 2014.
Responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘government of the Lugansk People's Republic’.


12.7.2014




67.


Vasyl NIKITIN,
Vasilii Aleksandrovich NIKITIN
(Василий Александрович Никитин)


DOB: 25.11.1971
POB: Shargun (Uzbekistan)


So-called ‘Vice Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers of the Lugansk People's Republic’, (used to be the so-called ‘Prime Minister of the Lugansk People's Republic’, and former spokesman of the ‘Army of the Southeast’).
Responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘government of the Lugansk People's Republic’.
Responsible for the statement of the Army of the Southeast that the Ukrainian presidential elections in the ‘Lugansk People's Republic’ cannot take place due to the ‘new’ status of the region.


12.7.2014




68.


Aleksey Vyacheslavovich KARYAKIN
(Алексей Вячеславович Карякин)


DOB: 7.4.1980 or 7.4.1979
POB: Stakhanov (Lugansk oblast)


So-called ‘Supreme Council Chair of the Lugansk People's Republic’.
Responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the ‘Supreme Council’, responsible for asking the Russian Federation to recognise the independence of the ‘Lugansk People's Republic’.
Signatory of the Memorandum of Understanding on the ‘Novorossiya union’.


12.7.2014




69.


Yuriy Volodymyrovych IVAKIN
(Юрiй Володимирович Iвакiн),
Iurii Vladimirovich IVAKIN
(Юрий Владимирович Ивакин)


DOB: 13.8.1954
POB: Perevalsk (Lugansk oblast)


Former so-called ‘Minister of Internal Affairs of the Lugansk People's Republic’, as such responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘government of the Lugansk People's Republic’.


12.7.2014




70.


Igor PLOTNITSKY,
Igor Venediktovich PLOTNITSKII
(Игорь Венедиктович Плотницкий)


DOB: 24.6.1964 or 25.6.1964 or 26.6.1964
POB: Lugansk (possibly in Kelmentsi, Chernivtsi oblast)


Former so-called ‘Defence Minister’ and currently so-called ‘Head’ of the ‘Lugansk People's Republic’.
Responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘government of the Lugansk People's Republic’.


12.7.2014




71.


Nikolay KOZITSYN


DOB: 20.6.1956
POB: Donetsk region


Commander of Cossack forces.
Responsible for commanding separatists in Eastern Ukraine fighting against the Ukrainian government forces.


12.7.2014




73.


Mikhail Efimovich FRADKOV
(Михаил Ефимович Фрадков)


DOB: 1.9.1950
POB: Kurumoch, Kuibyshev region


Permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation; Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of the Russian Federation. As a member of the Security Council, which provides advice on and coordinates national security affairs, he was involved in shaping the policy of the Russian Government threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


25.7.2014




74.


Nikolai Platonovich PATRUSHEV
(Николай Платонович Патрушев)


DOB 11.7.1951
POB: Leningrad (St Petersburg)


Permanent member and Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. As a member of the Security Council, which provides advice on and coordinates national security affairs, he was involved in shaping the policy of the Russian Government threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


25.7.2014




75.


Aleksandr Vasilievich BORTNIKOV
(Александр Васильевич Бортников)


DOB: 15.11.1951
POB: Perm


Permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation; Director of the Federal Security Service (FSB). As a member of the Security Council, which provides advice on and coordinates national security affairs, he was involved in shaping the policy of the Russian Government threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


25.7.2014




76.


Rashid Gumarovich NURGALIEV
(Рашид Гумарович Нургалиев)


DOB: 8.10.1956
POB: Zhetikara, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic


Permanent member and Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. As a member of the Security Council, which provides advice on and coordinates national security affairs, he was involved in shaping the policy of the Russian Government threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


25.7.2014




77.


Boris Vyacheslavovich GRYZLOV
(Борис Вячеславович Грызлов)


DOB 15.12.1950
POB: Vladivostok


Permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. As a member of the Security Council, which provides advice on and coordinates national security affairs, he was involved in shaping the policy of the Russian Government threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


25.7.2014




78.


Sergei Orestovoch BESEDA
(Сергей Орестович Беседа)


DOB: 17.5.1954


Commander of the Fifth Service of the FSB, Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation.
As a senior FSB officer, he heads a service responsible for overseeing intelligence operations and international activity.


25.7.2014




79.


Mikhail Vladimirovich DEGTYAREV
(Михаил Владимирович Дегтярëв)


DOB 10.7.1981
POB: Kuibyshev (Samara)


Member of the State Duma.
On 23.5.2014 he announced the inauguration of the ‘de facto embassy’ of the unrecognised, so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ in Moscow, he contributes to undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


25.7.2014




80


Ramzan Akhmadovitch KADYROV
(Рамзан Ахматович Кадыров)


DOB: 5.10.1976
POB: Tsentaroy.


President of the Republic of Chechnya. Kadyrov made statements in support of the illegal annexation of Crimea and in support of the armed insurgency in Ukraine. He stated, inter alia, on 14 June 2014 that he ‘will do anything to help revive Crimea’. In that context, he was awarded the medal for ‘the liberation of Crimea’ by the Acting Head of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea for the support he provided to the unlawful annexation of Crimea. In addition, on 1 June 2014 he expressed his readiness to send 74 000  Chechen volunteers to Ukraine if requested to do so.


25.7.2014




81.


Alexander Nikolayevich TKACHYOV
(Александр Николаевич Ткачëв)


DOB: 23.12.1960
POB: Vyselki, Krasnodar region


Former Governor of the Krasnodar Krai.
He was awarded the medal ‘for the liberation of Crimea’ by the Acting head of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea for the support he provided to the unlawful annexation of Crimea. On that occasion, the Acting Head of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea said that Tkachyov was one of the first to express his support to the new ‘leadership’ of Crimea.


25.7.2014




82.


Pavel GUBAREV
(Павел Юрьевич Губарев)


DOB: 10.2.1983
POB: Sievierodonetsk


One of the self-described leaders of the so-called ‘people’ Republic of Donetsk'. He requested Russian intervention in eastern Ukraine, including through the deployment of Russian peacekeeping forces. He is associated with Igor Strelkov/Girkin who is responsible for actions which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Gubarev is responsible for recruiting people for armed forces of separatists.
Responsible for taking over the regional government building in Donetsk with pro-Russian forces and proclaimed himself the ‘people's governor’.
Despite being arrested for threatening the territorial integrity of Ukraine, and subsequently released, he has continued to play a prominent role in separatist activities, thus undermining the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


25.7.2014




83.


Ekaterina Iurievna GUBAREVA
(Екатерина Юрьевна Губарева),
Katerina Yuriyovna GUBARIEVA
(Катерина Юрiйовнa Губарева)


DOB: 5.7.1983
POB: Kakhovka (Kherson oblast)


In her capacity of former so-called ‘Minister of Foreign Affairs’ she was responsible for defending the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’, thus undermining the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. In addition, her bank account is used to finance illegal separatist groups. In taking on and acting in this capacity she has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Remains active in supporting separatist actions and policies.


25.7.2014




84.


Fedor Dmitrievich BEREZIN
(Фëдор Дмитриевич Березин),
Fedir Dmitrovych BEREZIN
(Федiр Дмитрович Березiн)


DOB: 7.2.1960
POB: Donetsk


Former so-called ‘deputy defence minister’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. He is associated with Igor Strelkov/Girkin, who is responsible for actions which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. In taking on and acting in this capacity Berezin has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Remains active in supporting separatist actions and policies.


25.7.2014




85.


Valery Vladimirovich KAUROV
Валерий Владимирович Кауров


DOB: 2.4.1956
POB: Odessa


The self-described ‘president’ of the so-called ‘Republic of Novorossiya’ who has called on Russia to deploy troops to Ukraine. In taking on and acting in this capacity he has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


25.7.2014




86.


Serhii Anatoliyovych ZDRILIUK
Сергей Анатольевич Здрнлюкv


DOB: 23.6.1972
POB: Vinnytsia region


Senior aid to Igor Strelkov/Girkin who is responsible for actions which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. In taking on and acting in this capacity, Zdriliuk has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


25.7.2014




87.


Vladimir ANTYUFEYEV
Владимир Антюфеев
(aka Vladimir SHEVTSOV, Vladimir Iurievici ANTIUFEEV, Vladimir Gheorghievici ALEXANDROV, Vadim Gheorghievici SHEVTSOV)


DOB: 19.2. 1951
POB: Novosibirsk


Former ‘Minister of State Security’ in the separatist region of Transnistria. Former vice-prime minister of Donetsk People's Republic, responsible for security and law enforcement. In his capacity, he is responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘government of the Donetsk People's Republic’.


25.7.2014




88.


Alexey Alexeyevich GROMOV
(Алексей Алексеевич Громов)


DOB: 31.5.1960
POB: Zagorsk (Sergiev Posad)


As first Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration, he is responsible for instructing Russian media outlets to take a line favourable with the separatists in Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea, therefore supporting the destabilisation of Eastern Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea.


30.7.2014




90.


Boris Alekseevich LITVINOV
(Борис Алексеевич Литвинов)


DOB: 13.1.1954
POB: Dzerzhynsk (Donetsk oblast)


Member of the so-called ‘People's Council’ and former chairman of the so-called ‘Supreme Council’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ who was at the source of policies and the organisation of the illegal ‘referendum’ leading to the proclamation of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’, which constituted a breach of the territorial integrity, sovereignty and unity of Ukraine.


30.7.2014




91.


Sergey Vadimovich ABISOV
(Сергей Вадимович Абисов)


DOB 27.11.1967
POB: Simferopol, Crimea


By accepting his appointment as so-called ‘Minister of Interior of the Republic of Crimea’ by the President of Russia (decree No 301) on 5 May 2014 and by his actions as so-called ‘Minister of Interior’ he has undermined the territorial integrity, sovereignty and unity of Ukraine


30.7.2014




92.


Arkady Romanovich ROTENBERG,
Arkadii Romanovich ROTENBERG
(Аркадий Романович Ротенберг)


DOB: 15.12.1951
POB: Leningrad (Saint Petersburg).


Mr Rotenberg is a long-time acquaintance of President Putin and his former judo sparring partner.
He developed his fortune during President Putin's tenure. His level of economic success is attributable to the influence of key decision makers favouring him, notably in the award of public contracts.
He has benefited from his close personal relationship with Russian decision-makers as he was awarded important contracts by the Russian State or by State-owned enterprises. His companies were, notably awarded several highly lucrative contracts for the preparations for the Sochi Olympic Games.
He is also the owner of the company Stroygazmontazh which has been awarded a State contract for the construction of a bridge from Russia to the illegally annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea, therefore consolidating its integration into the Russian Federation which in turn further undermines the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
He is the chairman of the board of directors of publishing house Prosvescheniye, which has notably implemented the project ‘To the Children of Russia: Address — Crimea’, a public relations campaign that was designed to persuade Crimean children that they are now Russian citizens living in Russia and thereby supporting the Russian Government's policy to integrate Crimea into Russia.


30.7.2014




93.


Konstantin Valerevich MALOFEEV
(Константин Валерьевич Малофеев)


DOB: 3.7.1974
POB: Puschino


Mr Malofeev is closely linked to Ukrainian separatists in Eastern Ulkraine and Crimea. He is a former employer of Mr Borodai, so-called Prime Minister of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ and met with Mr Aksyonov, so-called Prime Minister of the so-called ‘Republic of Crimea’, during the period of the Crimean annexation process. The Ukrainian Government has opened a criminal investigation into his alleged material and financial support to separatists. In addition, he gave a number of public statements supporting the annexation of Crimea and the incorporation of Ukraine into Russia and notably stated in June 2014 that ‘You can't incorporate the whole of Ukraine into Russia. The East (of Ukraine) maybe’.
Therefore Mr Malofeev is acting in support of the destabilisation of Eastern Ukraine.


30.7.2014




94.


Yuriy Valentinovich KOVALCHUK
(Юрий Валентинович Ковальчук)


DOB 25.7.1951
POB: Leningrad (St Petersburg)


Mr Kovalchuk is a long-time acquaintance of President Putin. He is a co-founder of the so-called Ozero Dacha, a cooperative society bringing together an influential group of individuals around President Putin.
He is benefiting from his links with Russian decision-makers. He is the chairman and largest shareholder of Bank Rossiya, of which he owned around 38 % in 2013, and which is considered the personal bank of Senior Officials of the Russian Federation. Since the illegal annexation of Crimea, Bank Rossiya has opened branches across Crimea and Sevastopol, thereby consolidating their integration into the Russian Federation.
Furthermore, Bank Rossiya has important stakes in the National Media Group which in turn controls television stations which actively support the Russian government's policies of destabilisation of Ukraine.


30.7.2014




95.


Nikolay Terentievich SHAMALOV
(Николай Терентьевич Шамалов)


DOB: 24.1.1950
POB: Belarus


Mr Shamalov is a long-time acquaintance of President Putin. He is a co-founder of the so-called Ozero Dacha, a cooperative society bringing together an influential group of individuals around President Putin.
He benefits from his links with Russian decision-makers. He is the second largest shareholder of Bank Rossiya, of which he owned around 10 % in 2013, and which is considered the personal bank of Senior Officials of the Russian Federation. Since the illegal annexation of Crimea, Bank Rossiya has opened branches across Crimea and Sevastopol, thereby consolidating their integration into the Russian Federation.
Furthermore, Bank Rossiya has important stakes in the National Media Group which, in turn, controls television stations which actively support the Russian government's policies of destabilisation of Ukraine.


30.7.2014




96.


Alexander Vladimirovich ZAKHARCHENKO
(Александр Владимирович Захарченко)


DOB: 26.6.1976
POB: Donetsk


As of 7 August 2014, he replaced Alexander Borodai as the so-called ‘Prime minister’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. In taking on and acting in this capacity, Zakharchenko has supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


12.9.2014




97.


Vladimir KONONOV/aka ‘Tsar’
(Владимир Петровнч Кононов)


DOB: 14.10.1974
POB: Gorsky


As of 14 August, he replaced Igor Strelkov/Girkin, as the so-called ‘Defence minister’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. He has reportedly commanded a division of separatist fighters in Donetsk since April and has promised to solve the strategic task of repelling Ukraine's military aggression. Konokov has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


12.9.2014




98.


Miroslav Vladimirovich RUDENKO
(Мирослав Владимирович Руденко)


DOB: 21.1.1983
POB: Debalcevo


Associated with the ‘Donbass People's Militia’. He has, inter alia, stated that they will continue their fighting in the rest of the country. Rudenko has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. So-called ‘People's Deputy’ in the so-called ‘Parliament of the Donetsk People's Republic’.


12.9.2014




99.


Gennadiy Nikolaiovych TSYPKALOV,
Gennadii Nikolaevich TSYPKALOV
(Геннадий Николаевич ЦыПлаков)


DOB: 21.6.1973
POB: Rostov oblast (Russia)


Replaced Marat Bashirov as so-called ‘Prime Minister’ of the so-called ‘Lugansk People's Republic’. Previously active in the militia Army of the Southeast. Tsyplakov has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


12.9.2014




101.


Oleg Vladimirovich BEREZA
(Олег Владимирович Берëза)


DOB: 1.3.1977


‘Internal affairs minister’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. Associated with Vladimir Antyufeyev, who is responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘Government of the Donetsk People's Republic’. He has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


12.9.2014




102.


Andrei Nikolaevich RODKIN
(Андрей Николаевич Родкин)


DOB: 23.9.1976
POB: Moscow


Moscow Representative of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. In his statements he has, inter alia, talked about the militias' readiness to conduct a guerrilla war and their seizure of weapon systems from the Ukrainian armed forces. He has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


12.9.2014




103.


Aleksandr Akimovich KARAMAN
(Александр Акимович Караман),
Alexandru CARAMAN


DOB: 26.7.1956 or 26.6.1956
POB Cioburciu, Slobozia district, now Republic of Moldova


‘Deputy Prime Minister for Social Issues’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. Associated with Vladimir Antyufeyev, who is responsible for the separatist ‘governmental’ activities of the so-called ‘Government of the Donetsk People's Republic’. He has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. Protégé of Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. Head of the Administration of the Council of Ministers of the so-called ‘Donetsk Peoples Republic’.


12.9.2014




104.


Georgiy L'vovich MURADOV
(Георгий Львович Мурадов)


DOB: 19.11.1954
POB: Kochmes, Komi ASSR


So-called ‘Deputy Prime Minister’ of Crimea and Plenipotentiary Representative of Crimea to President Putin. Muradov has played an important role in consolidating Russian institutional control over Crimea since the illegal annexation. He has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


12.9.2014




105.


Mikhail Sergeyevich SHEREMET
(Михаил Сергеевич Шеремет)


DOB 23.5.1971
POB: Dzhankoy


So-called ‘First Deputy Prime Minister’ of Crimea. Sheremet played a key role in the organisation and implementation of the 16 March referendum in Crimea on unification with Russia. At the time of the referendum, Sheremet reportedly commanded the pro-Moscow ‘self- defense forces’ in Crimea. He has therefore supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


12.9.2014




106.


Yuri Leonidovich VOROBIOV
(Юрий Леонидович Воробьев)


DOB 2.2.1948
POB: Krasnoyarsk


Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. On 1 March 2014 Vorobiov publicly supported in the Federation Council the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine. He subsequently voted in favour of the related decree.


12.9.2014




107.


Vladimir Volfovich ZHIRINOVSKY
(Владимир Вольфович Жириновски)


DOB: 25.4.1946
POB: Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR


Member of the Council of the State Duma; leader of the LDPR party. He actively supported the use of Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea. He has actively called for the split of Ukraine. He signed, on behalf of the LDPR party he chairs, an agreement with the so-called, ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.


12.9.2014




108.


Vladimir Abdualiyevich VASILYEV
(Васильев Владимир Абдуалиевич)


DOB: 11.8.1949
POB: Klin


Deputy Speaker of the State Duma. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.


12.9.2014




109.


Viktor Petrovich VODOLATSKY
(Виктор Петрович Водолацкий)


DOB 19.8.1957
POB: Stefanidin Dar, Rostov region


Chairman (‘ataman’) of the Union of the Russian and Foreign Cossack Forces, and deputy of the State Duma. He supported the annexation of Crimea and admitted that Russian Cossacks were actively engaged in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of the Moscow-backed separatists. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.


12.9.2014




110.


Leonid Ivanovich KALASHNIKOV
(Леонид Иванович Калашников)


DOB: 6.8.1960
POB: Stepnoy Dvorets


First deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the State Duma. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.


12.9.2014




111.


Vladimir Stepanovich NIKITIN
(Владимир Степанович Никитин)


DOB 5.4.1948
POB: Opochka


Former First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Relations with CIS Countries, Eurasian Integration and Links with Compatriots of the State Duma. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.


12.9.2014




112.


Oleg Vladimirovich LEBEDEV
(Олег Владимирович Лебедев)


DOB 21.3.1964
POB: Rudny, Kostanai region, Kazakh SSR


First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Relations with CIS Countries, Eurasian Integration and Links with Compatriots of the State Duma. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.


12.9.2014




113.


Ivan Ivanovich MELNIKOV
(Иван Иванович Мельников)


DOB: 7.8.1950
POB: Bogoroditsk


First Deputy Speaker, State Duma. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.


12.9.2014




114.


Igor Vladimirovich LEBEDEV
(Игорь Владимирович Лебедев)


DOB: 27.9.1972
POB: Moscow


Deputy Speaker, State Duma. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.


12.9.2014




115.


Nikolai Vladimirovich LEVICHEV
(Николай Владимирович Левичев)


DOB: 28.5.1953
POB: Pushkin


Deputy Speaker, State Duma. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.


12.9.2014




116.


Svetlana Sergeevna ZHUROVA
(Светлана Сергеевна Журова)


DOB 7.1.1972
POB: Pavlov-on-the-Neva


First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, State Duma. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.


12.9.2014




117.


Aleksey Vasilevich NAUMETS
(Алексей Васильевич Haумец)


DOB: 11.2.1968


Major-general of the Russian Army. He is the commander of the 76th airborne division which has been involved in the Russian military presence on the territory of Ukraine, notably during the illegal annexation of Crimea.


12.9.2014




118.


Sergey Viktorovich CHEMEZOV
(Сергей Викторович Чемезов)


DOB: 20.8.1952
POB: Cheremkhovo


Sergei Chemezov is one of President Putin's known close associates, both were KGB officers posted in Dresden and he is a member of the Supreme Council of ‘United Russia’. He is benefiting from his links with the Russian President by being promoted to senior positions in State-controlled firms. He chairs the Rostec conglomerate, the leading Russian state-controlled defence and industrial manufacturing corporation. Further to a decision of the Russian government, Technopromexport, a subsidiary of Rostec, is planning to build energy plants in Crimea thereby supporting its integration into the Russian Federation.
Furthermore, Rosoboronexport, a subsidiary of Rostec, has supported the integration of Crimean defence companies into Russia's defence industry, thereby consolidating the illegal annexation of Crimea into the Russian Federation.


12.9.2014




119.


Alexander Mikhailovich BABAKOV
(Aлександр Михайлович Бабаков)


DOB: 8.2.1963
POB: Chisinau


State Duma Deputy, Chair of the State Duma Commission on Legislative Provisions for Development of the Military-Industrial Complex of the Russian Federation. He is a prominent member of ‘United Russia’ and a businessman with heavy investments in Ukraine and in Crimea.
On the 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the Republic of Crimea and the city of federal status of Sevastopol’.


12.9.2014




120.


Serhiy KOZYAKOV (aka Sergey Kozyakov)
Сергей Козьяков


DOB: 29.9.1982


In his capacity as ‘Head of the Luhansk Central Election Commission’ he is responsible for organising the so-called ‘elections’ of 2 November 2014 in the so-called ‘Luhansk People's Republic’. These ‘elections’ are in breach of Ukrainian law and therefore illegal.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, and in organising the illegal ‘elections’, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


29.11.2014




121.


Oleg Konstantinovich AKIMOV a.k.a. Oleh AKIMOV
(Олег Константинович Акимов)


DOB: 15.9.1981
POB: Lugansk


Deputy of the ‘Lugansk Economic Union’ in the ‘National Council’ of the ‘Lugansk People's Republic’. Stood as a candidate in the so-called ‘elections’, of 2 November 2014 to the post of ‘Head’ of the so-called ‘Lugansk People's Republic’. These ‘elections’ are in breach of Ukrainian law and therefore illegal.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, and in participating formally as a candidate in the illegal ‘elections’, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


29.11.2014




122.


Larisa Leonidovna AIRAPETYAN a.k.a. Larysa AYRAPETYAN, Larisa AIRAPETYAN or Larysa AIRAPETYAN
(Лариса Леонидовна Айрапетян)


DOB: 21.2.1970


‘Health Minister’ of the so-called ‘Lugansk People's Republic’. Stood as a candidate in the so-called ‘elections’ of 2 November 2014 to the post of the ‘Head’ of the so-called ‘Lugansk People's Republic’.
These ‘elections’ are in breach of Ukrainian law and therefore illegal.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, and in participating formally as a candidate in the illegal ‘elections’, she has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


29.11.2014




123.


Yuriy Viktorovich SIVOKONENKO a.k.a. Yuriy SIVOKONENKO, Yury SIVOKONENKO, Yury SYVOKONENKO
(Юрий Викторович Сивоконенко)


DOB: 7.8.1957
POB: Donetsk


Member of the ‘Parliament’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ and works in the Union of veterans of the Donbass Berkut. Stood as a candidate in the so-called ‘elections’ of 2 November 2014 to the post of the Head of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. These elections are in breach of Ukrainian law and therefore illegal.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, and in participating formally as a candidate in the illegal ‘elections’, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


29.11.2014




124.


Aleksandr Igorevich KOFMAN a.k.a. Oleksandr KOFMAN
(Александр Игоревич Кофман)


DOB: 30.8.1977
POB: Makiivka (Donetsk oblast)


So-called ‘Foreign Minister’ and so-called ‘First deputy speaker’ of the ‘Parliament’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. Stood as a candidate in the so-called illegal ‘elections’ of 2 November 2014 to the post of Head of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’. These elections are in breach of Ukrainian law and therefore illegal.
In taking part and acting in this capacity, and in participating formally as a candidate in the illegal ‘elections’, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


29.11.2014




125.


Ravil Zakarievich KHALIKOV
(Равиль Закариевич Халиков)


DOB: 23.2.1969
POB: Belozere village, Romodanovskiy rayon, USSR


‘First Deputy Prime Minister’ and previous ‘Prosecutor-General’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


29.11.2014




126.


Dmitry Aleksandrovich SEMYONOV,
Dmitrii Aleksandrovich SEMENOV
(Дмитрий Александрович Семенов)


DOB: 3.2.1963
POB: Moscow


‘Deputy Prime Minster for Finances’ of the so-called ‘Lugansk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


29.11.2014




127.


Oleg BUGROV
(Олег Бугров)


DOB: 29.8.1969


Former ‘Defense Minister’ of the so-called ‘Lugansk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


29.11.2014




128.


Lesya LAPTEVA
(Леся Лаптева)


 


Former ‘Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Religion’ of the so-called ‘Luhansk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, she has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


29.11.2014




129.


Yevgeniy Eduardovich MIKHAYLOV
(aka Yevhen Eduardovych Mychaylov)
(Евгений Здуардович Михайлов)


DOB: 17.3.1963
POB: Arkhangelsk


‘Head of the administration for governmental affairs’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


29.11.2014




132.


Vladyslav Nykolayevych DEYNEGO a.k.a. Vladislav Nykolayevich DEYNEGO
(Владислав Николаевич Дейнего)


DOB: 12.3.1964


‘Deputy Head’ of the ‘People's Council’ of the so-called ‘Lugansk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


29.11.2014




133.


Pavel DREMOV a.k.a. Batya
(Павел Леонидович ДРËМОВ),
Pavlo Leonidovych DRYOMOV
(Павло Леонщович Дрьомов)


DOB: 22.11.1976
POB: Stakhanov


Commander of the ‘First Cossack Regiment’, an armed separatist group involved in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
In this capacity, he has actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


16.2.2015




134.


Alexey MILCHAKOV aka Fritz, Serbian
(Алексей МИЛЬЧАКОВ)


DOB: 30.4. 1991 or on 30.1.1991
POB: St. Petersburg


Commander of the ‘Rusich’ unit, an armed separatist group involved in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
In this capacity, he has actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


16.2.2015




135.


Arseny PAVLOV aka Motorola
ApcéHий Сергеевич ПÁВЛОВ (aka Моторoла)


DOB: 2.2.1983
POB: Ukhta, Komi


Commander of the ‘Sparta Battalion’, an armed separatist group involved in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
In this capacity, he has actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


16.2.2015




136.


Mikhail Sergeevich TOLSTYKH a.k.a. Givi
(Михаил Сергеевич Толстых)


DOB: 19.7.1980
POB: Ilovaisk


Commander of the ‘Somali’ battalion, an armed separatist group involved in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.
In this capacity, he has actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


16.2.2015




137.


Eduard Aleksandrovich BASURIN
(Здуард Александрович Басурин)


DOB: 27.6.1966 or 21.6.1966
POB: Donetsk


So-called ‘Deputy Commander’ of the Ministry of Defense of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


16.2.2015




138.


Alexandr SHUBIN
Александр Васильевич ШУБИН


DOB: 20.5.1972 or 30.5.1972
POB: Luhansk


So-called ‘Minister of Justice’, of the illegal so-called ‘Luhansk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised the country.


16.2.2015




139.


Sergey Anatolievich LITVIN
(Сергей Анатольевич Литвин)


DOB: 2.7.1973


So-called ‘Deputy Chairman’ of the Council of Ministers of the so-called ‘Lugansk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


16.2.2015




141.


Ekaterina FILIPPOVA
Екатерина Владимировна ФИЛИППОВА


DOB: 20.11.1988
POB: Krasnoarmëisk


So-called ‘Minister of Justice’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, she has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


16.2.2015




142.


Aleksandr TIMOFEEV
Александр ТИМОФЕЕВ


DOB: 27.1.1974


So-called ‘Minister of Budget’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised the country.


16.2.2015




143.


Evgeny Vladimirovich MANUILOV
(Евгений Владимирович Мануйлов)


DOB: 5.1.1967


So-called ‘Minister of Budget’ of the so-called ‘Lugansk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


16.2.2015




144.


Viktor YATSENKO
(Виктор ЯЦЕНКО)


DOB: 22.4.1985
POB: Kherson


So-called ‘Minister of Communications’ of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


16.2.2015




146.


Zaur ISMAILOV
(Заур Исмаилов Рауфович)


DOB: 25.7.1978 (or 23.3.1975)
POB: Krasny Luch, Voroshilovgrad Lugansk


So-called ‘General Prosecutor’ of the so-called ‘Lugansk People's Republic’.
In taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


16.2.2015




147.


Anatoly Ivanovich ANTONOV
(Анатолий Иванович Антонов)


DOB 15.5.1955
POB: Omsk


Deputy Minister of Defence and, in that capacity, involved in supporting the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine.
According to the present Russian Ministry of Defence structure, in that capacity he participates in shaping and implementing the policy of the Russian Government. These policies threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


16.2.2015




148.


Arkady Viktorovich BAKHIN
(Аркадий Викторович Бахин)


DOB: 8.5.1956
POB: Kaunas, Lithuania


First Deputy Minister of Defence and, in that capacity, involved in supporting the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine.
According to the present Russian Ministry of Defence structure, in that capacity he participates in shaping and implementing the policy of the Russian Government. These policies threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


16.2.2015




149.


Andrei Valeryevich KARTAPOLOV
(Андрей Валерьевич Картaпoлoв)


DOB: 9.11.1963
POB: GDR (DDR)


Director of the Main Operations Department and deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In both capacities he is actively involved in shaping and implementing the military campaign of the Russian forces in Ukraine.
According to the stated activities of the general staff, by exercising operational control over the armed forces, he is actively involved in shaping and implementing the Russian government policy threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.


16.2.2015




150.


Iosif (Joseph) Davydovich KOBZON
(Иосиф Дaвьιдoвич Кобзон)


DOB: 11.9.1937
POB: Tchassov Yar, Ukraine


Member of the State Duma.
He visited the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and during his visit made statements supporting separatists. He was also appointed Honorary Consul of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ in the Russian Federation.
On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.


16.2.2015




151.


Valery Fedorovich RASHKIN
(Валерий Фëдoрoвич Рашкин)


DOB: 14.3.1955
POB: Zhilino, Kaliningrad region


First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Ethnicity issues.
He is the founder of the civil movement ‘Krassnaya Moskva — Red Moscow — Patriotic Front Aid’ which organised public demonstrations supporting separatists, thereby supporting policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine. On 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects — the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.


16.2.2015





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33.


Prizrak brigade
(‘Бригада ‘Призрак’)


Armed separatist which has actively supported actions which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.


16.2.2015