The United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union all announced sanctions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Here are some of the high-profile members of Russia’s elite facing international sanctions.
him as “Army General, Hero of the Russian Federation.” He has served as defense minister since 2012 after a stint as governor of Moscow.Shoigu has now been targeted for sanctions by the United States, Canada and the E.U.
In the E.U.’s official sanctions note, it described the defense minister as “ultimately responsible for any military action against Ukraine.” In the months before the invasion, Shoigu accused the United States and NATO of “purposefully increasing the scale and intensity” of military training activities near Russia and bolstering the military development of Ukraine.what it said were “rare pictures” of Shoigu relaxing and painting a watercolor landscape.
Russian President Vladimir Putin and defense minister Sergei Shoigu drove a cross-country vehicle and took a stroll in the Siberian mountains on March 21. Simonyan is the editor in chief of RT, an English-language television news network formerly known as Russia Today. She also heads the news outlet Rossiya Segodnya, a Kremlin-backed news agency that operates Sputnik and RIA Novosti.
The state-funded media outlet has also been linked to disinformation campaigns and Russian propaganda.Valery Gerasimov, 66, is chief of the general staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and one of several top Russian officials placed on the U.S. sanctions list Friday. Britain also added him to its list.Following a speech he gave in 2013, Gerasimov became associated with hybrid warfare, a whole-of-government strategy that blurs boundaries between war and peace.
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