KYIV. March 21 (Interfax) - Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has signed a decree enacting the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) resolution of March 19, "On the application, cancellation and modification of the personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions)," including against senior members of the Russian parliament.
At the initiative of the Ukrainian government, the Security Service and the National Bank of Ukraine currently have sanctions in place against 294 legal entities and 848 individuals, the NSDC press service said on Wednesday.
The sanction lists include individuals and companies who were involved in: building a transport bridge across Kerch Strait, the Kerch Strait incident with Ukrainian navy boats, organizing elections in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people's republics and Crimea; individuals who travelled to and from Crimea in violation of Ukrainian laws, distributed "printed matter of anti-Ukrainian content" and "have unlawfully received and are using a museum collection owned by Ukraine."
"The NSDC of Ukraine also introduced restrictive measures against certain individuals and legal entities already sanctioned by the European Union, the United States and Canada," the statement said.
Also, sanctions were extended against four banks with a "capital of the aggressor state."
"At the same time, in view of the purpose of sanctions having been achieved, at the request of the Security Service of Ukraine, restrictive measures have been lifted against eight legal entities, most of which have ceased business operations, in view . Also, at the initiative of the Security Service technical corrections have been made to the identification data of one individual and two legal entities," the NSDC said.
Among new entries are 15 Russian-registered construction companies including SGM-Most, Mostotrest and Stroygazmontazh (all based in Moscow).
The sanctions are valid for three years and involve "blocking these enterprises' assets and banning them from government procurement contracts for goods and services."
The list also includes Institute Giprostroymost - St. Petersburg, Mostotryad N75, Stary Gorod -KARST (all based in St. Petersburg); Portgidrostroy, Upravleniya Federalnykh Avtomobilnykh Dorog Taman, Firma DEKO, Krasnodargazstroy, Mostordostroy (all Krasnodar-based); KBK Group (Sochi) and Direktsiya Po Stroitelstvu Zheleznoi Dorogi Berkakit-Tommot-Yakutsk (based in Aldan).
The list also includes Crimean-registered firms Bosporecostroy and GidroPromStroy.
In particular, the NSDC has re-imposed two-year sanctions against PJSC Sberbank, PJSC Prominvestbank, PJSC VTB Bank, and JSC BM-2018, according to a document on the presidential website. The decision restricts capital withdrawals from these financial institutions outside Ukraine in favor of affiliated persons.
The sanction list of companies includes eleven publishing houses, including Eksmo and AST.
Eight will be under three-year sanctions restricting trade operations, capital withdrawal out of Ukraine, suspension of economic and financial liabilities, and other sanctions in accordance with the principles of their application as provided by the law.
The other three, LitRes, Labirint.RU and Reksoft, will be restricted in trade operations and banned from providing user access to their websites (litres.ru, labirint.ru and ozon.ru, respectively).
Ukraine also sanctioned three Russian starch manufacturers (KZ Gulkevichsky, based in Krasnodar Territory, Zvyaginsky Starch Factory, based in Oryol region, and Amilko, based in Rostov region) and the Crimean Insurance Company.