The EU
added 6 members of the Russian Federation State Dumaelected from the
illegally annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol to
the list of persons subject to restrictive measures in respect of actions
undermining Ukraine's territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence.
The
Russian Federation organised elections for the State Duma on 18 September 2016,
including in the illegally annexed Crimea and Sevastopol. The EU has
not recognised the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by the
Russian Federation and therefore does not recognise the holding of elections in
the Crimean peninsula.
In line
with its non-recognition policy, the EU considers that the persons who became
members of the State Duma as a result of the elections in Crimea should
be placed under sanctions. The Council therefore added the following six
persons to the list of persons subject to sanctions: Ruslan Ismailovich Balbek,
Konstantin Mikhailovich Bakharev, Dmitry Anatolievich Belik, Andrei
Dmitrievich Kozenko, Svetlana Borisovna Savchenko and Pavel Valentinovich
Shperov.
These
sanctions consist of an asset freeze and a travel ban which
will now apply to a total of 152 persons and 37 entities. The
measures were introduced in March 2014 and were last extended in September 2016
until 15 March 2017.
The legal
acts, including the names of the persons and the statements of reasons for
listing them, are available in the EU Official Journal of 9 November 2016.
Several EU
measures are in place in response to the crisis in Ukraine including:
·
economic sanctions targeting specific sectors of the Russian economy,
currently in place until 31 January 2017;
·
restrictive measures in response to the illegal annexation of Crimea and
Sevastopol, limited to the territory of Crimea and Sevastopol, currently in
place until 23 June 2017.
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