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The European Union will remove four Russian citizens from its sanctions list after Hungary threatened to renew the restrictions targeting more than 2000 people, according to the people who were briefed on the decision.
At the request of Hungary, Brussels will remove Gulphor Ismailova, the sister of Uzbek billionaire Russia, Alisher Othmanov, the Russian few Viaschilaf Moshe Kanor and Russian politician Mikhail Degotv, three officials were issued in financial times.
Two officials added that Russian businessman Vladimir Rashifsky would be removed from the list, but this was a request from all European countries for legal reasons.
The main Budapest request for oligarsh Mikhail Friedman and his commercial partner has not been agreed to remove him from the sanctions list.
European sanctions on about 2,400 Russian officials, Blina, politicians and businessmen who supported or facilitated War in Ukraine It must be renewed every six months.
This extension is subject to consensus unanimously from European UnionGovernments 27, which gives Budapest the veto power on travel restrictions and orders to freeze assets. Individual penalties expired on Saturday.
One official said: “We had to make a call, and ultimately 2000 people deserved other capitals,” said one of the officials.
The success of Hungary, which is the most supportive European Union members, in removing people from the list raised great concerns from other countries that Budapest will grant the extension of the transition Economic sanctions Against Russia in July. These mechanical measures that guarantee hundreds of billions of Russian sovereign origins in Europe include.
European Commission spokeswoman Anita Heber said after agreeing that the sanctions framework was “undermining” Moscow’s ability to wage war. Heber also said she could not comment on individual cases, but “we have approximately 2,400 names, which is a very strong number.”
Ismailova’s brother, Othmanov, a Russian billionaire billionaire, who achieved his wealth with Gazprom in the 1990s, was one of the largest bodies of mining, industry and communications in Russia.
Kantor, a great contributor to Acro, and Rashevsky, who used to run Eurochem, are the sons of fertilizers.
Degtyarev, the Minister of Sports, was appointed by Russian President Vladimir Putin last year after spent a governor of the Khabarovsk region in the Far East of the country, which had previously been affected by mass protests.
Additional reports company by Anastasia will be in Berlin
