The Division of State is taking extra steps to impose extreme prices on the Authorities of the Russian Federation and promote accountability for its battle of aggression in opposition to Ukraine.
Imposing Visa Restrictions
The Division of State is saying a collection of actions to advertise accountability for actions by Russian Federation officers and others that violate Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, together with these implicated in abuses perpetrated in Zaporizhzhia and Mariupol, in addition to actions to suppress dissent in Russia, to incorporate:
- Motion to impose visa restrictions on 511 officers of the Russian Federation army, together with officers working within the Zaporizhzhia and Mariupol areas, pursuant to a coverage beneath Part 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act that applies to those that are believed to have supported, been actively complicit in, or been accountable for ordering or in any other case directing or authorizing actions that threaten or violate the sovereignty, territorial integrity, or political independence of Ukraine.
- Motion to impose visa restrictions on 18 Russian Federation nationals pursuant to a coverage beneath Part 212(a)(3)(C) of the Immigration and Nationality Act that applies to present and former Russian Federation officers believed to be concerned in suppressing dissent in Russia and overseas and their members of the family.
Concentrating on Russia-Put in Political Leaders
The Division of State is designating Halyna Danylchenko, the illegitimate Russia-installed “mayor” of Melitopol, pursuant to Part 1(a)(ii)(F) of Govt Order (E.O.) 14024, for being accountable for or complicit in, or having immediately or not directly engaged or tried to interact in actions that undermine the peace, safety, political stability, or territorial integrity of america, its allies, or its companions for or on behalf of, or for the advantage of, immediately or not directly, the Authorities of the Russian Federation. Danylchenko was put in by Russia following the kidnapping of the democratically elected mayor of Melitopol.
Concentrating on Russia’s Protection Institution
As we speak, as a part of its newest motion to impose extreme prices on the Russian Federation’s protection institution in response to Putin’s battle of aggression, the Division of State is designating 45 defense-related entities pursuant to E.O. 14024. Russia’s protection institution is accountable for Russia’s appalling marketing campaign of violence in opposition to the individuals of Ukraine, which has induced widespread and pointless struggling and plenty of lots of and certain 1000’s of civilian casualties, together with the deaths of kids. These actions embrace the designation of an entity exterior of Russia for offering materials assist to a blocked Russian entity, on this case, one that makes a speciality of procuring gadgets for Russia’s protection business; Russian Federation army items and a Russian Federation intelligence company which have been credibly implicated in human rights abuses or violations of worldwide humanitarian regulation in Ukraine; defense-related entities that produce parts for Russian Federation weapons techniques; and Russian Federation entities that lead Russia’s efforts to export arms so as to generate income to fund Russia’s weapon improvement efforts.
Additional, in coordination with the Division of the Treasury’s designation of State Company Rostec in the present day, the Division of State is designating 19 members of the Rostec board of administrators and 9 of their spouses or grownup kids. Rostec is taken into account to be the cornerstone of Russia’s protection, industrial, expertise, and manufacturing sectors.
The board members are being designated pursuant to Sections 1(a)(iii)(A) of E.O. 14024, for being or having been a pacesetter, official, senior govt officer, or member of the board of administrators of the Authorities of the Russian Federation:
- Vladimir Vladimirovich Artyakov
- Sergey Anatolyevich Tsyb
- Nikolai Anatolevich Volobuev
- Igor Nikolaevich Zaviyalov
- Aleksander Yuryevich Nazarov
- Dmitry Yuryevich Lelikov
- Maksim Vladimirovich Vybornykh
- Oleg Nikolaevich Evtushenko
- Anatoly Eduardovich Serdyukov
- Victor Nikolayevich Kiryanov
- Vladimir Zalmanovich Litvin
- Yury Nikolayevich Koptev
- Natalya Vladimirovna Borisova
- Elena Oduliovna Sierra
- Pavel Mikhaylovich Osin
- Vasily Yuryevich Brovko
- Natalya Ivanova Smirnova
- Aleksandr Nikolaevich Popov
- Nikolay Valentinovich Andrianov
Relations of the board members are being designated pursuant to Part (1)(a)(v) of E.O. 14024, having been a partner or grownup baby of any particular person whose property and pursuits in property are blocked pursuant to subsection 1(a)(iii):
- Dmitriy Vladimirovich Artyakov
- Tatiana Vladimirovna Artyakova
- Tatiana Borisovna Kiryanova
- Tina Kandelaki
- Melaniya Andreyevna Kondrakhina
- Leontiy Andreyevich Kondrakhin
- Sergey Anatolevich Serdyukov
- Natalya Anatolevna Serdyukova
- Evgeniya Nikolaevna Vasileva
Underscoring the Dangers of Doing Enterprise with Sanctioned Russian Federation Entities or People
On March 3, 2022, the Division of State designated Radioavtomatika pursuant to E.O. 14024 and underscored that Radioavtomatika makes a speciality of procuring overseas gadgets for Russia’s protection business. As we speak, the Division of State has designated the Uzbekistan-based Promcomplektlogistic Personal Firm, which has actively supported Radioavtomatika in Radioavtomatika’s effort to evade U.S. sanctions since Radioavtomatika’s March 3, 2022, designation. Promcomplektlogistic Personal Firm’s conduct has included offering digital parts corresponding to microcircuits to Radioavtomatika. Promcomplektlogistic Personal Firm has been designated pursuant to E.O. 14024 Part 1(a)(vi)(B) as a result of Promcomplektlogistic Personal Firm has materially assisted, sponsored, or offered monetary, materials, or technological assist for, or items or companies to or in assist of Radioavtomatika, which is an entity whose property and pursuits in property are blocked pursuant to E.O. 14024. The designation of Promcomplektlogistic Personal Firm ought to function a warning to industrial stakeholders worldwide: If you happen to do enterprise with sanctioned entities or people, you threat publicity to sanctions. Moreover, Promcomplektlogistic Personal Firm is being concurrently added to the Division of Commerce’s Entity Listing.
Selling Accountability for Russia’s Abuses
The Division of State is designating three Russian Federation army items, the 76th Guards Air Assault Division and its subordinate 234th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment, in addition to the sixty fourth Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, pursuant to E.O. 14024 Part 1(a)(i) as a result of these entities function or have operated within the protection and associated materiel sector of the Russian Federation economic system.
A number of, credible studies have documented abstract executions and different illegal killings of civilians, beatings of detained individuals, and destruction of civilian property by Russia’s forces in Bucha, Ukraine this yr. The United Nations (UN) Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights has indicated that UN workers documented the illegal killing of dozens of civilians in Bucha.
In March 2022, Russia’s 76th Guards Air Assault Division and its 234th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment encamped on Bucha, Ukraine’s Yablunska Road, which turned an epicenter of violence in opposition to civilians and different human rights abuses in Bucha.
Pictures of useless civilians lining Yablunska avenue are seared into our international reminiscence and won’t be forgotten.
Based on credible studies, the 76th Guards Air Assault Division has been immediately implicated in violence in opposition to unarmed civilians in Bucha, in addition to beating detained individuals. A soldier of the 76th Guards Air Assault Division has said his unit was tasked with “clear up” actions and this concerned breaking into residential buildings the place civilians lived.
Credible studies additionally point out that subsequent to a wall of the 234th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment’s base on Yablunska Road in Bucha, Russia’s forces executed quite a few detained Ukrainian residents. Based on credible studies, the 234th Guards Airborne Assault Regiment has additionally been immediately implicated within the destruction of civilian property corresponding to houses in Bucha.
The sixty fourth Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade additionally operated within the neighborhood of Yablunska Road and different places in Bucha. The sixty fourth Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade has been described because the “butchers of Bucha.” Based on credible studies, whereas working in Bucha, this unit killed quite a few civilians, detained civilians, beat detained civilians, carried out mock executions of civilians, dismembered civilians together with eradicating elements of their scalps and eradicating their limbs, burned civilians, and seized and broken civilian houses and property.
After accounts of the sixty fourth Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade’s brutality emerged and this unit was accused of battle crimes by the Authorities of Ukraine, the Kremlin responded by issuing a press release – in English – indicating that Russian Federation President Putin had conferred honors upon the sixty fourth Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade, and Russia’s Ministry of Protection promoted the commanding officer of the sixty fourth Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade and praised this officer’s management.
The Division of State has additionally designated the Russian Federation’s Federal Safety Service (FSB), which is a Russian authorities company that may be a Russian inside safety and intelligence service, pursuant to E.O. 14024 Part 1(a)(iv) as a result of the FSB is a political subdivision, company, or instrumentality of the Authorities of the Russian Federation. The FSB can be sanctioned beneath E.O. 13694, as amended, E.O.13382, and Part 224 of the Countering America’s Adversaries By Sanctions Act.
For the reason that begin of Russia’s additional, full-scale invasion of Ukraine, credible studies have indicated that the Federal Safety Service (FSB) has perpetrated human rights abuses in opposition to Ukrainian residents.
Based on credible studies, previous to initiating its additional invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Russia deliberate a means of “filtration,” whereby Ukrainian residents can be forcibly relocated to Russia-controlled territory or to Russia itself.
Credible studies point out that the FSB is centrally concerned within the Russian Federation’s filtration course of, together with its filtration camps. These studies point out that the FSB runs at the very least a few of the filtration camps and that the FSB has carried out hours-long, harsh interrogations of civilians together with interrogations which have concerned beating civilians.
Credible accounts point out that the “filtering” course of typically includes beating detained Ukrainian residents, separating the households of Ukrainian residents, seizing Ukrainian residents’ passports and different identification paperwork, depriving detained Ukrainian residents of meals and water for durations of time, and forcibly relocating Ukrainian residents to distant elements of Russia. Credible studies additionally point out that the filtration camps typically have very poor sanitation and that Ukrainian residents have died in such camps due to a scarcity of medical care. There are studies that Ukrainian residents have been killed in Russia’s filtration camps. Worldwide efforts to confirm and doc the precise variety of Ukrainian civilians affected by pressured relocations and filtration camps stay ongoing.
Imposing Prices on Russia’s Protection Sector
The Division of State has additionally designated quite a few defense-related Russian Federation entities. Particularly, the next entities have been designated pursuant to E.O. 14024 Part 1(a)(i) as a result of these entities function or have operated within the protection and associated materiel sector of the Russian Federation economic system:
- Joint Inventory Firm Ryazan State Instrument Making Enterprise is a Russian Federation protection entity that develops and produces airborne avionics for Russia’s fight plane.
- Joint Inventory Firm Manufacturing Affiliation Strela is a Russian protection entity concerned in creating and producing missiles for Russia’s Ministry of Protection.
- Joint Inventory Firm Company Moscow Institute of Warmth Expertise is a Russian protection entity that develops missiles for Russia’s Ministry of Protection.
- Joint Inventory Firm Ramensky Instrument Engineering Plant is a Russian protection entity that produces navigation techniques and different tools for the Russian Federation army’s fighter plane and armed unmanned aerial automobiles.
- Krylov State Scientific Middle Federal State Unitary Enterprise is a Russian Federation protection transport analysis heart that conducts analysis and improvement on naval transport matters, together with naval weapons, submarines, and different army naval merchandise.
- Joint Inventory Firm Shipbuilding Company Ak Bars is a Russian protection shipbuilding entity that undertakes actions for Russia’s State Protection Order, together with producing missile corvette vessels for Russia’s Navy.
- Joint Inventory Firm Analysis and Manufacturing Enterprise Radar MMS is a Russian protection entity that has been concerned in creating focusing on complexes for Russia’s Ministry of Protection fight plane.
- Joint Inventory Firm Analysis Institute Polyus of M.F. Stelmakh is a Russian protection entity that carries out Russia’s State Protection Order, together with by making laser techniques for Russia’s army and creating different army gadgets.
- Joint Inventory Firm Obninsk Analysis and Manufacturing Enterprise Technologiya named after A. G. Romashin is a Russian protection entity that carries out Russia’s State Protection Order, together with by producing gadgets for the Russian Federation army’s fighter plane.
- Joint Inventory Firm Permskiy Zavod Mashinostroitel is a Russian protection entity that develops and produces missiles for Russia’s army.
- Joint Inventory Firm Machine-Constructing Engineering Workplace Fakel Named After Akademika P. D. Grushina is a Russian Federation protection entity that develops and manufactures missiles for the Russian Federation army’s air protection techniques.
- Joint Inventory Firm North Western Regional Middle of Almaz Antey Concern Obukhovsky Plant is a Russian Federation protection entity that designs and manufactures weapons techniques and army tools and is concerned in producing Russia’s S-400 air protection missile system.
- Joint Inventory Firm Radiozavod is a Russian protection entity that producers management techniques for Russia’s Ministry of Protection, together with for weapon techniques.
- Joint Inventory Firm Arzamassky Priborostroitelny Zavod Imeni Plandina is a Russian Federation protection entity that describes itself as a number one enterprise of Russia’s protection business that producers “particular objective merchandise” and devices for plane.
- JSC All Russian Analysis Institute of Radio Engineering is a Russian protection science analysis enterprise that carries out duties for the Russian State Protection Order, together with concerning analysis associated to radars, missiles, and different weapons.
- Moscow Institute of Electromechanics and Automatics JSC is a Russian protection entity that conducts avionics analysis and improvement for Russia’s army airplanes.
- Restricted Legal responsibility Firm Nauchno-Proizvodstvennoye Obyedineniye Radiovolna is a Russian protection entity that designs and manufactures radomes for Russia’s protection functions.
- Kizlyar Electromechanical Plant JSC is a Russian protection enterprise that producers protection merchandise, together with a helicopter for Russia’s Aerospace Forces.
- Joint Inventory Firm Manufacturing Affiliation Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant Named After E.S. Yalamov is a Russian protection entity that develops devices for Russia’s fight plane, helicopters, and naval ships.
- Closed Joint-Inventory Firm Scientific Manufacturing Enterprise Topaz is a Russian protection entity that develops and produces {hardware} and software program used for army plane of Russia’s Armed Forces.
- Kaluga Analysis Institute of Radio Engineering JSC is a Russian protection entity that produces digital warfare techniques for Russia’s army plane.
- Aviaavtomatika Named After V. Tarasov JSC is a Russian protection entity that develops tools for Russia’s army plane.
- Joint Inventory Firm Analysis and Improvement Enterprise Almaz is a Russian protection entity that develops and produces digital warfare (digital countermeasures) tools in addition to different digital merchandise for Russia’s army techniques.
- Joint Inventory Firm Middle of Analysis and Expertise Companies Dinamika is a Russian protection entity that designs and manufactures flight simulators for Russia’s army aircrews.
- State Analysis Institute of Aviation Programs State Analysis Middle of the Russian Federation is a Russian protection scientific heart for army aviation analysis that focuses on army aviation fight techniques and aviation weapons.
- Federal Service for Navy-Technical Cooperation is a Russian Ministry of Protection entity which supervises Russian organizations empowered to hold out overseas commerce actions concerning army objective merchandise.
- Joint Inventory Firm Particular Design Bureau Turbina is a Russian protection entity that produces engines for Russia’s armored automobiles, missiles, and artillery techniques.
- Public Joint Inventory Firm Analysis and Manufacturing Company Istok Named After A.I. Shokin is a Russian protection entity that produces digital warfare techniques for Russia’s Ministry of Protection.
- Joint Inventory Firm State Scientific Analysis Institute Kristall is a Russian protection entity that produces ammunition and bombs.
- Open Joint Inventory Firm Moscow Equipment Constructing Plant Avangard is a Russian protection entity that produces missiles for Russia’s S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft techniques.
- Mariyskiy Machine-Constructing Plant Open Joint Inventory Firm is a Russian protection entity that producers Russia’s air protection techniques.
- Open Joint Inventory Firm Begin Scientific and Manufacturing Enterprise Named After A. Yaskin is a Russian protection entity that produces and companies missiles, together with for Russia’s Navy.
- Open Joint Inventory Firm Khabarovsk Radio Engineering Plant is a Russian protection entity that makes a speciality of actions associated to Russia’s anti-aircraft missile techniques.
- Joint Inventory Firm Vyatskoye Mashinostroitelnoye Predpriyatiye Avitek is a Russian protection entity that manufactures missiles and parts for Russia’s air protection techniques.
- Joint Inventory Firm All-Russian Analysis Institute Sign is a Russian protection entity that develops tools for Russia’s Armed Forces, together with fight robots and unmanned floor automobiles.
- Joint Inventory Firm Radiopribor is a Russian protection entity that manufactures and installs digital warfare techniques on Russia’s army plane.
- Public Joint Inventory Firm Vympel Interstate Company is a Russian protection entity that’s concerned within the improvement of Russia’s missile protection techniques.
The next Russian defense-related entities have been designated pursuant to E.O. 14024 Part 1(a)(i) as a result of they’re entities that function or have operated within the aerospace sector of the Russian Federation economic system:
- JSC Scientific and Manufacturing Affiliation of Electro Mechanic develops gadgets for Russia’s missiles, fight plane, and different aerospace techniques.
- Ramenskoye Design Firm Joint Inventory Firm is a Russian integrator and provider of avionics for Russia’s plane, helicopters, and unmanned aerial automobiles, together with manufacturing heads-up shows for Russia’s fighter plane.
The next entity has been re-designated pursuant to E.O. 14024 Part 1(a)(vii) as a result of it’s owned or managed by, or has acted or presupposed to act for or on behalf of, immediately or not directly, the Authorities of the Russian Federation and pursuant to E.O. 14024 Part 1(a)(iv) as a result of it’s a political subdivision, company, or instrumentality of the Authorities of the Russian Federation:
- Rosoboroneksport OAO (Rosoboronexport JSC) is Russia’s sole state-controlled middleman company for exporting and importing all the vary of army, protection, and dual-use merchandise, applied sciences, and companies. Rosoboronexport pursues the Russian Authorities’s nationwide coverage within the space of army technical cooperation with overseas international locations and was beforehand designated beneath E.O. 13582.
Sanctions Implications
On account of in the present day’s motion, all property and pursuits in property of the designated individuals above which can be in america or within the possession or management of U.S. individuals are blocked and should be reported to the U.S. Division of the Treasury’s Workplace of Overseas Property Management (OFAC). As well as, any entities which can be owned, immediately or not directly, 50 % or extra by a number of blocked individuals are additionally blocked. All transactions by U.S. individuals or inside (or transiting) america that contain any property or pursuits in property of designated or in any other case blocked individuals are prohibited, except approved by a common or particular license issued by OFAC, or in any other case exempt. These prohibitions embrace the making of any contribution or provision of funds, items, or companies by, to, or for the advantage of any blocked particular person and the receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, items, or companies from any such particular person.
