The US is imposing full-blocking sanctions on Russian ”Oligarchs” (Russian elites and business tycoons) and on other Russian individuals, including President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, in amidst to Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, the White House said on Thursday.
Complete blocking sanctions on a wide new list of members of the Russian elite and their families who makes Putin power up. Some elites are Boris Rotenberg his wife and his sons, Igor Shuvalov his wife, son, daughter and five companies and Jet; White House statement in a press release.
Visa restriction on 19 Russian oligarchs, their 47 family members and close connect. They said in the press release; today the State Department is announcing a new visa restriction policy to restrict the issuance of visas to certain Russian ‘Oligarchs’ their family members and close associates.
The White House said that full intercept sanctions were also imposed on Nikolai Tokarev, Sergei Chemezov, Yevgeny Prigozin and Alisher Usmanov.
Further, they added that these elites are known to direct, authorize, capital, crucial support, or carry out malicious activities in support of Russia’s unstable foreign policy. In a preparatory action under this policy, we have taken steps to impose visa restrictions on 19 Oligarchs and the family members and close connects that related to them.
In a tweet, Us president Biden said that “the United States has banned the travel of more than 50 Russian Oligarchs, family and close aides.” He added and is the tweet ‘In my State of the Union address, I said that US is going after the crimes of the Russian Oligarchs. Today, we are adding some more names to the list and banning travel to the US by more than 50 Russian oligarchs, their families and allies.
The US and Europe have launched a series of sanctions against Russia in response to Russia’s military operation in Ukraine.
