The US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on natural and legal persons of Belarus, including the BelAZ engineering companies and the Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ). This is stated in a message on the American website. ministries.
“The following entities have been added to the sanctions list of the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC): JSC BelAZ, the management company of the BelAZ-Holding holding holding JSC Minsk Automobile Plant,” says the list of the US Treasury Department.
Elena Baldovskaya, secretary of the Belarusian Central Election Commission, was also on the list of sanctions.
In February, the Council of the European Union extended the sanctions against Belarus for one year “due to internal pressure”. In the statement, it was noted that the council decided to extend the prohibitive measures associated with the internal repression in the republic for another year. The document states that during the adoption of the resolution, the participation of the republic in the special military operation conducted by the Russian Federation on the territory of Ukraine was taken into account. There are 195 individuals and 34 organizations on the black list of Belarus.