List of russian companies under sanctions for the War in Ukraine — YouControl

YouControl R&D Center analysts examined the sanctions lists of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and Japan, as well as the European Union sanctions. See the main insights in the article.

After the invasion of the Russian troops on the territory of sovereign Ukraine on February 24, 2022, many countries imposed personal sanctions against the individuals and companies involved in the military aggression. The main type of restrictive measures on all of the analyzed sanctions lists is the blocking of assets of individuals and legal entities. All of the restrictive measures are currently in effect and have no defined period of validity.

More than 900 Individuals Under Sanctions

In total, just over 900 individuals were included on the six analyzed sanctions lists. However, it should be noted that some individuals and legal entities are on several lists simultaneously. And the number of individuals and legal entities under sanctions on each list varies depending on the country that imposed them. Predominantly these are Russian citizens, current and former MPs of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, members of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation.

Responsible MPs and Officials

Between February 24 and March 11, 2022, more than 300 MPs of the Russian State Duma who voted for the recognition of the DNR and LNR were added to the sanctions lists of the EU, Canada, Australia, and the UK. On March 9, the EU put 146 more members of the Russian Federation Council on the sanctions list for ratifying the "Treaties on Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the DPR and between the Russian Federation and the LPR."

Personal sanctions were also imposed on Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. They were on all the sanctions lists analyzed, except for the EU list. They were first sanctioned by the United States and Britain on February 25, then joined by Canada and Australia on February 28, and Japan also imposed sanctions on March 1. Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian president, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu were also on the analyzed sanctions lists, except for the UK list.

The sanctions lists of the EU, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain include Russian State Duma deputies Alexei Yuryevich Chernyak and Leonid Ivanovich Babashev. The former was once registered in Ukraine as an individual entrepreneur, the latter is currently listed as a participant in two companies registered in Crimea, SOVA KB and BLIK, and is also an active individual entrepreneur.

Russian Oligarchs

In addition to Russian state officials, Russian oligarchs are on the sanctions lists, in particular, Mikhail Fridman (from 28.02.2022 on the EU sanctions list, from 14.03.2022 on the Australian sanctions list), Alisher Usmanov (in all analyzed lists), Alexei Mordashov (from 28.02.2022 on the EU sanctions list, from 14.03.2022 on the Australian sanctions list), Oleg Deripaska (from 06.03.2022 on the Canadian sanctions list, from 10.03.2022 on the British sanctions list), Roman Abramovich (from 10.03.2022 on the British and Canadian sanctions lists, from 14.03.2022 on the Australian sanctions list, from 15.02.2022 on the EU sanctions list) and Putin's closest associates, brothers Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, Yuri Kovalchuk, as well as their family members, Gennadiy Timchenko (from 22.02.2022 on the British sanctions list, from 28.02.2022 on the EU sanctions list, from 08.03.2022 on the Japanese sanctions list). Yevgeny Prigozhin and his family members are also on the sanctions lists.

🔖 It should be noted that Mikhail Fridman is officially listed as the beneficiary of 10 Ukrainian companies, in particular Alfa-Bank JSC, Alfa-Insurance JSC, Alfa-Leasing Ukraine LLC.

🔖 Oleg Deripaska is not currently on the list of beneficiaries of any Ukrainian company, however, according to media reports, the Mykolaiv Alumina Refinery LLC is still part of the RUSAL group, of which he is a co-owner.

Sanctions for the "LPR", "DPR", the Republic of Belarus

The Government of Japan has expanded its sanctions list to include more than 50 members of the “governments” of the so-called "LPR" and "DPR", as well as President Alexander Lukashenko and his sons Dmitry and Viktor, and also the head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov.

A total of about 50 citizens of the Republic of Belarus were included in the analyzed lists. The list also includes co-owners of Belarusian companies Bremino Group, Synesis Group, and the company SOKHRA, Alexander Zaitsev, Aleksei Aleksin, and Nikolai Vorobey, as well as more than 30 Belarusian legal entities.

Journalists and TV Hosts

Analyzed sanctions lists also include journalists and TV hosts. In particular, Vladimir Solovyov, a TV anchor at the Russian TV channel Rossiya 1 (EU, Canada, Australia, and Japan); Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of RT TV channel (EU, Canada); Konstantin Knyryk, head of the propaganda news agency NewsFront (USA, EU, Canada), registered in Ukraine as an individual entrepreneur, and a member and manager of the PR Agency "T.M." LLC; Konstantin Ernst, CEO of Russia's First Channel (Canada); and Belarusian journalists Igor Tur and Lyudmila Gladkaya (Canada).

Also on March 24, Canada put 4 citizens of Ukraine on its sanctions list: an MP of Ukraine of 8th-9th convocations Taras Romanovich Kozak, who is already on the US and Ukrainian sanctions lists and is a participant and beneficiary of more than 20 Ukrainian companies, in particular of the TV channels "112", "ZIK" and NewsOne; an MP of Ukraine of the 9th convocation Oleh Voloshyn; a former MP of Ukraine of the 4th-6th convocations Volodymyr Sivkovych, who is a member of the Institute "Suspilstvo" NGO, in particular, and an ex-MP of Ukraine of the 5th-7th convocations Volodymyr Oliynyk. 

Companies Under Sanctions

The total number of legal entities on the sanctions lists is more than 300.

The analyzed sanctions lists contain Russian banks, in particular, Rossiya, Promsvyazbank, Genbank, Industrial Savings Bank, Novikombank, VTB Bank, which is a shareholder of VTB Bank JSC, a Ukrainian bank with the same name, and VEB.RF corporation. Also, the U.S. added a significant number of companies associated with the above banks to the sanctions list, in particular, the Ukrainian JSC Prominvestbank was added to the list.

The main type of restrictive measures under all the analyzed sanctions lists is the freezing of assets of legal entities. However, the US sanctions also impose sectoral restrictions on several dozens of legal entities. For example, Sberbank of Russia JSC, which is a shareholder of the Ukrainian International Reserve Bank JSC (former name of Sberbank JSC), was prohibited from opening and maintaining a correspondent account or a clearing payable-through account.

Also on 24.02.2022, the U.S. extended sanctions against PJSC Gazprom. Besides freezing of the company's assets the sanctions also included prohibition for transactions, financing, and other operations with debt with a maturity period of more than 14 days or new equity, if such debt or new equity is issued on or after 22.03.2022. PJSC "Gazprom" is a member of Ukrainian companies PJSC GAZPROM SBUT UKRAINE and PJSC INTERNATIONAL CONSORTIUM ON MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE GAS TRANSPORT SYSTEM OF UKRAINE. The UK, Canadian and Australian sanctions were also imposed on Gazprom chairman Alexey Miller.

In addition to companies in the banking sector, the Government of Canada added about 30 Russian companies working in the mechanical engineering sector, in particular the production of aircraft, as well as the Russian Defense Ministry and the Foreign Intelligence Service to its sanctions list on 10.03.2022.

On March 15, 2022, the European Union imposed sanctions on about 90 Russian companies, including a ban on any economic ties with 10 large companies of the Russian defense complex, as well as oil and gas companies, but the wording allows the purchase of oil and gas if necessary. Restriction of other companies on the list refers to the prohibition of direct or indirect sales, supplies, transfers, or exports of dual-use goods and technologies.

In YouControl, you can automatically track the presence of individuals and legal entities on the sanctions lists. You only need to go to the company tab or enter a person's full name in the Checking Individuals module and the system will highlight this data as a risk factor.

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