Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2021 of 3 October 2025 implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2642 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilising activities
Date: 2025-10-03
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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2025/2021


6.10.2025







            COUNCIL IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2025/2021
         
of 3 October 2025
         
implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2642 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilising 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 destabilising activities (1), and in particular Article 13(4) 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 18 July 2025, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (the ‘High Representative’) issued a statement on behalf of the Union, in which she condemned Russia’s persistent hybrid campaigns against the Union, its Member States and partners. The High Representative stated that, over the past years, the Union has observed a deliberate and systematic pattern of malicious behaviour attributed to Russia, such as cyber-attacks, acts of sabotage, disruption of critical infrastructure, physical attacks, information manipulation and interference, and other covert or coercive actions. Those activities have further escalated since the beginning of the war of aggression against Ukraine and, according to the High Representative, are highly likely to persist in the foreseeable future.












(3)


On the basis of a review of Regulation (EU) 2024/2642, the Council considers that 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 Annex I to that Regulation should be amended.












(4)


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, 3 October 2025.


For the Council


The President

M. BJERRE
            





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




ANNEX
In Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2024/2642, in the table headed ‘A. Natural persons’, entry 20 is replaced by the following:










 


Name


Identifying information


Statement of Reasons


Date of listing




‘20.


Hüseyin DOGRU


Nationality: Turkish, German
Gender: male


Hüseyin Doğru is the founder and representative of AFA Medya A.Ș., which is a media company based in Istanbul. AFA Medya A.Ș. operates “RED”, which comprises a number of media platforms, and which has close financial and organisational connections with Russian state propaganda entities and actors, and shares deep structural ties, including interlinkages between, and rotation of, individual personnel with Russian state media organisations.
RED has used its media platforms – often publishing under “redstreamnet” or “thered.stream” – to systematically spread false information on politically controversial subjects with the intent of creating ethnic, political and religious discord amongst its predominantly German target audience, including by disseminating the narratives of radical Islamic terrorist groups such as Hamas.
During a violent occupation of a German university by anti-Israel rioters, RED personnel coordinated with the occupiers to disseminate images of their vandalism – which included the use of Hamas symbols – through their online channels, thus providing them with an exclusive media platform, facilitating the violent nature of the protest.
Hüseyin Doğru continues to spread false information through AFA Medya A.Ș. as well as through his own social media accounts.
Through AFA Medya A.Ș. and his personal social media accounts, Hüseyin Doğru thus supports actions by the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability and security in the Union and in one or several of its Member States, including by indirectly supporting and facilitating violent demonstrations and engaging in coordinated information manipulation.


20.5.2025’








ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2025/2021/oj
ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)