Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/968 of 20 May 2025 implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2642 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilizing activities
Date: 2025-05-20
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU restrictive measure, Russia, Russo-Ukrainian issue, Ukraine, economic sanctions, international sanctions, natural person, territorial dispute, territorial law








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Official Journal of the European Union


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2025/968


21.5.2025







            COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/968
         
of 20 May 2025
         
implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2642 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilizing activities


THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) 2024/2642 of 8 October 2024 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilizing activities (1), and in particular Article 13(3) thereof,


Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

Whereas:







(1)


On 8 October 2024, the Council adopted Regulation (EU) 2024/2642.












(2)


On the basis of a review of Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 (2), the Council considers that the identifying information and the statement of reasons in the entry for one natural person in the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies set out in the Annex to Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 are to be amended.












(3)


Regulation (EU) 2024/2642 should therefore be amended accordingly,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2024/2642 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.


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




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 May 2025.


For the Council


The President

K. KALLAS
            





(1)  
            OJ L, 2024/2642, 9.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2642/oj.

(2)  Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 of 8 October 2024 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilising activities (OJ L, 2024/2643, 9.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/2643/oj).




ANNEX
In Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2024/2642, under the heading ‘A. Natural persons’, the following entry is replaced:










 


Name


Identifying information


Statement of Reasons


Date of listing




‘14.


Anatolii PRIZENKO


Businessman
DOB: 26.11.1974
POB: Moldovan SSR (now Republic of Moldova)
Nationality: Moldovan
Gender: male


Anatolii Prizenko is a businessman in the Republic of Moldova. In late October 2023, he coordinated the dispatch of several citizens of the Republic of Moldova to France, where they painted the Star of David on the streets in exchange for financial compensation. That operation was widely reported by the media and had a significant destabilising effect in the context of the conflict between Israel and Hamas following the attacks on 7 October 2023. Images of that operation were first spread by the Recent Reliable News media network, which is associated with the Government of the Russian Federation and used by Russian actors to conduct disinformation campaigns.
Anatolii Prizenko publicly took responsibility for his role as the organiser of that operation. According to media reports, that destabilising operation was carried out for the benefit of the Russian military intelligence service, the GRU, and aimed at fuelling tensions in French society.
Therefore, Anatolii Prizenko is responsible for, implementing, supporting or benefiting from actions or policies of the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability in a Member State and, therefore, in the Union by planning, directing, or engaging in, directly or indirectly, the use of coordinated information manipulation and interference.


16.12.2024’








ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/968/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)