The Guardian learned about the EU's plans to impose sanctions against Medvedev's son

Brussels will also introduce restrictions against Anna Tsivileva, the Il company and AlfaStrakhovanie, the newspaper writes. In total, 120 individuals and companies were proposed to be blacklisted Ilya Medvedev

As part of the 12th package of EU sanctions against RUSSIA, Brussels will introduce restrictions against 47 people, The Guardian reports. Among them is Ilya Medvedev, the son of Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. The reason, according to the publication, was the organization of a “disinformation propaganda campaign” against Ukraine.

In the summer of 2022, Medvedev Jr. joined United Russia, whose chairman is his father. From the party’s side, he coordinated the development of the “I am in Russia” portal, which is designed to provide government services to residents of the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions. Russia included these regions into its composition in the fall of 2022 based on the results of referendums. The legality of these decisions is not recognized by most countries; Moscow insists that the issue of the territorial affiliation of these entities is closed.

Anna Tsivileva, the wife of the governor of the Kemerovo region Sergei Tsivilev, whom President Vladimir Putin appointed chairman of the fund for supporting participants in the military operation “Defenders of the Fatherland,” will also be included in the blacklist . it is also planned to impose sanctions against a number of Belarusian officials.

The sanctions will include Russian companies operating in the defense industry and IT sector, “associated with the FSB,” as well as election commission employees and private military companies. They intend to introduce restrictions against AlfaStrakhovanie. RBC sent a request to the company.

The Aviation Complex named after. S.V. Ilyushin (IL, the parent company of the transport aviation division of the United Aircraft Corporation, produces Il-76 military transport aircraft) and the operator of the GLONASS system. In total, according to the European External Action Service, the measures will affect more than 120 individuals and legal entities.

In addition, the European Commission’s draft mentions a ban on the sale of used tankers and measures regarding Russian diamonds, as previously reported by other media, in particular BLOOMBERG . According to the agency, it is proposed to stop the import of diamonds from January 1. In general, the restrictions will affect about €5 billion of trade turnover between the European Union and Russia.

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Russian authorities , although they say that the economy has coped with the pressure of sanctions, consider them illegitimate. Medvedev, who has been under EU restrictions since February 2022, called the measures against relatives of officials a double lawlessness. The deputy chairman of the Security Council compared the actions of the West with repressions in the USSR in the 1930s: “If you bear the  same surname as the parent who committed the crime, you will also go under the 58th Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1926.”