UK authorities have expanded the list of anti-Russian sanctions by another 29 places. This was stated in press service UK Government.
The updated list includes the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, Russian National Reinsurance Company, Krastsvetmet and Nord Gold.
Britain also added Yuri Chikhanchin, director of the Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring), to its list of anti-Russian sanctions.
Before this, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, evaluated the possibility of lifting restrictions on the Russian Federation. According to him, the sanctions of Western states against the Russian Federation will be protected even in the long run.
Putin before benefit found from western sanctions