Fourth Package of Sanctions of European Union: Abramovich, Hudverdyan, Ernst and not only

The European Union has introduced a new, fourth package of personal and economic sanctions against Russia. The corresponding document is published on Tuesday in the official EU magazine and entered into force.

Sanctions suggest a ban on investment in the energy sector of the Russian Federation, exceptions are made for a peaceful atom and energy transportation in the EU. In addition, restrictions on trade in the RF Iron and Steel and the supply of luxury goods, cars are more expensive than 50 thousand euros.

In the Black List of EU added new personalities from among Russian entrepreneurs and media persons. Billionaire Roman Abramovich, CEO of Yandex Tigran Hudavurdyan, the main shareholder of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant (MMK) Billionaire Viktor Rashnikov, as well as the heads of energy and mining companies and representatives of the media are also included. Under the sanctions, the senator from Dagestan and the billionaire Suleiman Kerimov, the general director of the “First Channel” Konstantin Ernst, head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin, Billionaire Hermann Khan.

among those who came under the sanctions were “Rostech”, Rosneft, Transneft, Gazprom Neft, KAMAZ and Sovcomflot.