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Former Olympic gymnast and friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin Alina Kabaeva has been hit by a new set of U. S. sanctions amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
The U. S. Department of the Treasury The U. S. Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that it had frozen Ms. Kabaeva’s visa and imposed other asset restrictions.
The branch said it heads the National Media Group, a pro-Moscow media organization that has been Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for months.
Although it has been claimed that the 39-year-old former Russian Vogue style and two-time Olympic medalist on a romantic date with Russian President M. Putin has never publicly stated their relationship.
Kremlin critics have called on the United States to impose sanctions on Kabaeva over his newspaper’s description of Western comments about the invasion as a disinformation campaign.
It had already been sanctioned by the UK in May and the EU imposed restrictions on its assets in June.
In 2008, the Russian newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent reported that Mr. Putin had secretly divorced his wife Lyudmila and became engaged to the 24-year-old gymnast.
The media outlet closed just hours after a journalist asked Putin about his secret engagement at a press conference.
In its most recent sanctions circular, the U. S. he also targeted Publichnoe Aktsionernoe Obschestvo Magnitogorskiy Metallurgicheskiy Kombinat (MMK), one of the world’s largest metal producers, as chairman of the board, Viktor Rashnikov.
The Treasury Department sanctioned Andrey Grigoryevich Guryev, a Russian oligarch who owns Witanhurst, a 25-room mansion that is the largest property in London right now. His $120 million yacht, the Alfa Nero, is known as locked property.
His son Andrey Andreevich Guryev and his Russian investment firm were also on the sanctions list.
“While other innocent people suffer from Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Putin’s allies have enriched themselves and financed affluent lifestyles,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in a statement.
“Along with our allies, the United States will also continue to stifle the revenues and apparatus that underpin Russia’s unprovoked war in Ukraine. “
The State Department said Tuesday it is imposing visa restrictions on 893 Russian officials and the army workers’ corps for playing a role in Moscow’s aggression. The list also added 31 officials from nations not identified by their annexation of Crimea to Russia.
The ministry also imposed sanctions on 24 Russian defense and generation corporations in an attempt to “further isolate Russia’s defense and high-tech industries and restrict their contributions to Moscow’s war machine,” U. S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.
Usa. The US also has 3 Russian businessmen for being “Putin facilitators”.
“The United States will not waver in its support for the brave other peoples of Ukraine and will continue to publicize its responsibility for President Putin and his cronies, whose movements have caused so much suffering and destruction in Ukraine,” Blinken said.
Putin’s daughters, Katerina Vladimirovna Tikhonova and Maria Vladimirovna Vorontsova, were sanctioned by the United States in April.