Britain last imposed sanctions on Russian businessmen on March 15. Then the list included former members of the board of directors of the British investment group LetterOne Peter Aven, Mikhail Fridman, German Khan (they had previously left the board), as well as the chairman of the board of directors of Severstal Alexei Mordashov, Dmitry Pumpyansky (after the EU sanctions, he left the beneficiaries and the Board of Directors of the Pipe Metallurgical Company), President of the Marathon Group (the largest shareholder of the Magnit retail chain) Alexander Vinokurov, Andrey Melnichenko (against the background of EU sanctions, he ceased to be the owner of the Siberian Coal Energy Company and Eurochem), Dmitry Mazepin (sold after European sanctions controlling stake in Uralchem and left the post of CEO) and cellist Sergei Roldugin.
In total, more than 370 Russian citizens and companies have been subject to British sanctions since March 15. In addition, a number of “political allies” of Vladimir Putin fell under the sanctions, among which the British Foreign Office included, in particular, the deputy head of the Russian Security Council and ex-president Dmitry Medvedev, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Special mention was given to Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov and Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova.
In addition, the Secretary of the United Russia General Council Andrey Turchak, the head of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov, the governor of St. Petersburg Alexander Beglov, the mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin, the editor-in-chief of RT Margarita Simonyan, TV presenter Olga Skabeeva and others were sanctioned by Britain.
On March 24, Britain imposed sanctions against the host of the Rossiya TV channel Sregey Brilev, the head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, Mikhail Mizintsev, the CEO of Gazprom-Media Alexander Zharov, the Rossiya Segodnya agency, which owns the RT brand of the TV-Novosti company, as well as a number of employees of RT and the Sputnik agency.
