MOSCOW. Feb 22 (Interfax) - The United Kingdom has imposed sanctions on several dozen individuals and legal entities from Russia.
The new restrictions have been applied to a number of representatives of Russia's mining and metallurgical industry, including co-owners of Mechel, the United Metallurgical Company (OMK), and the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company (UMMC), the UK Foreign Office said on Thursday.
Blocking sanctions have been extended starting February 22 to Igor Zyuzin and Anatoly Sedykh, as well as Eduard Chukhlebov, Igor Kudryashkin, and Alexander Bunin.
The UK also put sanctions on Igor Marinychev, who headed up diamond producer Alrosa last year and who has already been designated by the United States and the EU, as well as its top managers Yevgeny Agureyev, Sergei Barsukov, Alexei Filippovsky, and Igor Sobolev, it said.
Other Russian managers newly sanctioned by the UK include Lev Feodosyev, who was known to serve as first deputy board chairman of the energy company Novatek (the company does not publicize its management now), and its board members Valery Kryukov, Viktor Nesterenko, Irina Gaida, and Alexei Orel.