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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2014-238/annex",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2014/238",
  "legislation_title": "Council Implementing Decision 2014/238/CFSP of 28 April 2014 implementing Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "List of persons, entities and bodies referred to in Article 1",
  "text": "Name\nIdentifying information\nReasons\nDate of listing\n1.\nDmitry Nikolayevich KOZAK\nBorn 7.11.1958 in Kirovohrad, Ukrainian SSR\nDeputy Prime Minister. Responsible for overseeing the integration of the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation.\n29.4.2014\n2.\nOleg Yevgenyvich BELAVENTSEV\nBorn 15.9.1949 in Moscow\nPlenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation into the so called ‘Crimean Federal District’, Non-permanent member of the Russian Security Council. Responsible for the implementation of the constitutional prerogatives of the Russian Head of State on the territory of the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea.\n29.4.2014\n3.\nOleg Genrikhovich SAVELYEV\nBorn 27.10.1965 in Leningrad\nMinister for Crimean Affairs. Responsible for the integration of the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation.\n29.4.2014\n4.\nSergei Ivanovich MENYAILO\nBorn 22.8.1960 in Alagir, North-Ossetian Autonomous SSR, RSFSR\nActing governor of the Ukrainian annexed city of Sevastopol.\n29.4.2014\n5.\nOlga Fedorovna KOVATIDI\nBorn 7.5.1962 in Simferopol, Ukrainian SSR\nMember of the Russian Federation Council from the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea.\n29.4.2014\n6.\nLudmila Ivanovna SHVETSOVA\nBorn 24.9.1949 in Alma-Ata, USSR\nDeputy Chairman of State Duma, United Russia — Responsible for initiating legislation to integrate the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation.\n29.4.2014\n7.\nSergei Ivanovich NEVEROV\nBorn 21.12.1961 in Tashtagol, USSR\nDeputy Chairman of State Duma, United Russia. Responsible for initiating legislation to integrate the annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea into the Russian Federation.\n29.4.2014\n8.\nIgor Dmitrievich SERGUN\nBorn 28.3.1957\nDirector of GRU (Main Intelligence Directorate), Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant-General. Responsible for the activity of GRU officers in Eastern Ukraine.\n29.4.2014\n9.\nValery Vasilevich GERASIMOV\nBorn 8.9.1955 in Kazan\nChief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, General of the Army. Responsible for the massive deployment of Russian troops along the border with Ukraine and lack of de-escalation of the situation.\n29.4.2014\n10.\nGerman PROKOPIV\nActive leader of the ‘Lugansk Guard’. Took part in the seizure of the building of the Lugansk regional office of the Security Service, recorded a video address to President Putin and Russia from the occupied building. Close links with the ‘Army of the South-East’.\n29.4.2014\n11.\nValeriy BOLOTOV\nOne of the leaders of the separatist group ‘Army of the South-East’ which occupied the building of the Security Service in the Lugansk region. Retired officer. Before seizing the building he and other accomplices possessed arms apparently supplied illegally from Russia and from local criminal groups.\n29.4.2014\n12.\nAndriy PURGIN\nHead of the ‘Donetsk Republic’, active participant and organiser of separatist actions, co-ordinator of actions of the ‘Russian tourists’ in Donetsk. Co-founder of a ‘Civic Initiative of Donbass for the Eurasian Union’.\n29.4.2014\n13.\nDenys PUSHYLIN\nBorn in Makiivka\nOne of the leaders of the Donetsk People's Republic. Participated in the seizure and occupation of the regional administration. Active spokesperson for the separatists.\n29.4.2014\n14.\nTsyplakov Sergey GENNADEVICH\nOne of the leaders of ideologically radical organization People's Militia of Donbas. He took active part in the seizure of a number of state buildings in Donetsk region.\n29.4.2014\n15.\nIgor STRELKOV (Ihor Strielkov)\nIdentified as staff of Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (GRU). He was involved in incidents in Sloviansk. He is an assistant on security issues to Sergey Aksionov, self-proclaimed prime-minister of Crimea.\n29.4.2014",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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