The United States on Thursday announced a new list of sanctions on Russian ogliarchs, including several allies of President Vladimir Putin allies and his press secretary Dmitry Peskov. 

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The Russians, described by the Biden administration as ‘Putin’s cronies and their members’, also include one of the country’s wealthiest individuals Alisher Burhanovich Usmanov. The White House fact sheet stated that they will be  cut off from the US financial system, their assets in the US will be frozen, and their property will be blocked from use. The US State Department also announced it was imposing visa bans on 19 Russian oligarchs and dozens of their family members and close associates.

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The White House described Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, as” a top purveyor of Putin’s propaganda.”

The property of Usmanov and the others will be blocked from use in the United States and by Americans. His assets include his superyacht, one of the world’s largest, that was just seized by Germany. Usmanov’s private jet, one of Russia’s largest privately owned aircraft, is also covered by the sanctions. There will be full blocking sanctions on eight, plus their family members and associates.

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“The United States and governments all over the world will work to identify and freeze the assets Russian elites and their family members hold in our respective jurisdictions — their yachts, luxury apartments, money, and other ill-gotten gains,” the fact sheet said.

The individuals who will be face full blocking are:

Nikolai Tokarev (along with his wife Galina, daughter Mayya and his two luxury real estate companies)

Boris Rotenberg (along with his wife Karina, and his sons Roman and Boris)

Arkady Rotenberg (along with his sons Pavel and Igor and daughter Liliya)

Sergei Chemezov (along with his wife Yekaterina, his son Stanislav and stepdaughter Anastasiya)

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Igor Shuvalov (along with his five companies, his wife Olga, his son Evgeny and his company and jet, and his daughter Maria and her company)

Yevgeniy Prigozhin (along with his three companies, his wife, Polina, his daughter Lyubov, and his son Pavel)

Dmitry  Peskov, Putin’s press secretary

Alisher Usmanov (His super-yacht, one of the world’s largest and just seized by our ally Germany, and his private jet, one of Russia’s largest privately owned aircraft)