Russian businessmen Mikhail Friedman and Piotr Aven will voluntarily transfer their shares in Alfa Bank (Ukraine) to Ukrainian residents approved by the National Bank.
On 28 February, the European Union imposed sanctions on Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman of the Russian President, as well as on Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov, and owners of the “Alfa Group” consortium Mikhail Friedman and Peter Aven.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated that western sanctions against Vladimir Putin are ‘absurd and very short-sighted', as quoted by russian agency Interfax, says European Pravda.
New sanctions imposed on Russia by the USA have prompted Russia to speak about a potentially elevated risk of the International Space Station crashing down.
According to European Pravda, Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin wrote about it on Twitter.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine approved an extended sanction list of persons involved in illegal sentencing and other unlawful actions against Ukrainian citizens. The list was tabled with the National Security and Defense Council for endorsement.
The European Court of Justice annulled the sanctions against the estate of Viktor Yanukovych Junior, the now-deceased younger son of Ukraine’s ex-president Viktor Yanukovych. The sanctions were introduced in 2014 after the Maidan shootings and the Russian occupation of Crimea
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) initiated the termination of trade activities with 243 Russian companies that were discovered to be conducting business with Ukrainian companies and at the same time cooperating with commercial structures on the occupied territories.
Rosselkhoznadzor (‘Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance’) destroyed 7.7 tons of Ukrainian cherries, 19.5 tons of Ukrainian apples, and 19 tons of cherries from Poland.
President Petro Poroshenko has forwarded information on the state of implementation of the Minsk Agreements to EU leaders while they are considering whether to continue sanctions on Russia.
