EU personal sanctions are, in effect, asset freezes and travel bans. The CEO of Yandex has resigned due to sanctions.
The EU’s sixth package of sanctions has been formally adopted and a list of new sanctions has been published.
The CEO of the Russian online giant Yandex, among others, has now been added to the sanctions list Arkadi Volozhwhich is also one of the founders of the company.
The reasons for adding Volozh, for example, are that Yandex was responsible for promoting the narratives of the Russian state in its search results and for hiding content critical of the Russian government in the results of its lower search engine.
Yandex announced on Friday that Volozh will resign as CEO immediately due to sanctions.
EU personal sanctions are, in effect, asset freezes and travel bans.
“Butshan butcher” added to list
Russian soldiers responsible for the atrocities and suspected war crimes in Bucha, Ukraine, have also been added to the EU’s sanctions list.
On the list is, for example, the commander of the Army’s 64th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade Azatbek Omurbekov, which led the operation of its military unit in Bocha. According to the EU sanctions list, Omurbekov was nicknamed “the butcher of Bushan.”
The bodies of hundreds of civilians were found in early April in Bocha, near Kiev, in the wake of the Russian occupation.
Other high-ranking soldiers of the brigade in Butcha, such as colonels and lieutenant colonels, have also been added to the sanctions list.
Patriarch Kirill was left out of the sanctions list at the request of Hungary
According to the original plans, the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Patriarch, would also have been added to the sanctions list. Kirill. The removal of the patriarch from the sanctions list was demanded by Hungary, which got its way.
The sixth sanctions package was approved by EU ambassadors on Thursday and its contents were published in full on Friday.
Negotiations on the sixth sanctions package lasted almost the whole of May, as Hungary also cracked down on the ban on Russian oil imports included in the package.
Eventually, Hungary got the exemption it wanted from the import ban and the country will be able to continue importing Russian oil along the Druzhba oil pipeline.
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