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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-241/annex/division-I",
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  "legislation": "eudn/2015/241",
  "legislation_title": "Council Decision (CFSP) 2015/241 of 9 February 2015 amending Decision 2014/145/CFSP concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2015-241",
  "path": "annex/division/I",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "I",
  "heading": "Persons",
  "text": "Name\nIdentifying information\nStatement of reasons\nDate of Listing\n133.\nPavel DREMOV aka Batya\nПавел ДРЁМОВ\nBorn in 1976, Stakhanov\nCommander of the ‘First Cossack Regiment’, an armed separatist group involved in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.\nIn this capacity, he has actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n134.\nAlexey MILCHAKOV aka Fritz, Serbian\nАлексей МИЛЬЧАКОВ\nBorn in 1991, St. Petersburg\nCommander of the ‘Rusich’ unit, an armed separatist group involved in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.\nIn this capacity, he has actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n135.\nArseny PAVLOV aka Motorola\nАрсéний Сергéевич ПÁВЛОВ (aka Моторóла)\nBorn on 2.2.1983, Ukhta, Komi\nCommander of the ‘Sparta Battalion’, an armed separatist group involved in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.\nIn this capacity, he has actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n136.\nMikhail TOLSTYKH aka Givi\nМихаил Толстых\nBorn in 1980, Ilovaisk\nCommander of the ‘Somali’ battalion, an armed separatist group involved in the fighting in eastern Ukraine.\nIn this capacity, he has actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n137.\nEduard BASURIN\nSo called ‘Deputy Commander’ of the Ministry of Defense of the so called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.\nIn taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n138.\nAlexandr SHUBIN\nАлександр Васильевич ШУБИН\nSo called ‘Minister of Justice’, of the illegal so called ‘Luhansk People's Republic’.\nIn taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise the country.\n16.2.2015\n139.\nSergey LITVIN\nСергей Анатольевич ЛИТВИН\nSo called Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the so called ‘Luhansk People's Republic’.\nIn taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n140.\nSergey IGNATOV\nСергей Юрьевич ИГНАТОВ\nSo called Commander in Chief of the People's Militia of the so called ‘Luhansk People's Republic’.\nIn taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise the country.\n16.2.2015\n141.\nEkaterina FILIPPOVA\nЕкатерина Владимировна ФИЛИППОВА\nBorn on 20.11.1988 in Krasnoarmëisk\nSo called ‘Minister of Justice’ of the so called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.\nIn taking on and acting in this capacity, she has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n142.\nAleksandr TIMOFEEV\nАлександр ТИМОФЕЕВ\nBorn on 27.1.1974\nSo called ‘Minister of Budget’ of the so called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.\nIn taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise the country.\n16.2.2015\n143.\nEvgeny MANUILOV\nЕвгений Владимирович МАНУЙЛОВ\nSo called ‘Minister of Budget’ of the so called ‘Luhansk People's Republic’.\nIn taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n144.\nViktor YATSENKO\nВиктор ЯЦЕНКО\nBorn on 22.4.1985 in Kherson\nSo called ‘Minister of Communications’ of the so called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.\nIn taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n145.\nOlga BESEDINA\nОльга Игорева БЕСЕДИНА\nSo called ‘Minister of Economic Development and Trade’ of the so called ‘Luhansk People's Republic’.\nIn taking on and acting in this capacity, she has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n146.\nZaur ISMAILOV\nЗаур Исмаилов\nBorn in 1975, Krasny Luch, Voroshilovgrad Luhansk\nSo called ‘Acting General Prosecutor’ of the so called ‘Luhansk People's Republic’.\nIn taking on and acting in this capacity, he has therefore actively supported actions and policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine and to further destabilise Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n147.\nAnatoly Ivanovich ANTONOV\nАнатолий Иванович Антонов\nBorn on 15.5.1955 in Omsk\nDeputy Minister of Defence, and in that capacity, involved in supporting the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine.\nAccording to the present Russian Ministry of Defence structure, in that capacity, he participates in shaping and implementing the policy of the Russian Government. These policies threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n148.\nArkady Viktorovich BAKHIN\nАркадий Викторович Бахин\nBorn on 8.5.1956 in Kaunas, Lithuania\nFirst Deputy Minister of Defence, and in that capacity, involved in supporting the deployment of Russian troops in Ukraine.\nAccording to the present Russian Ministry of Defence structure, in that capacity, he participates in shaping and implementing the policy of the Russian Government. These policies threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n149.\nAndrei Valeryevich KARTAPOLOV\nАндрей Валерьевич Картaполов\nBorn on 9.11.1963 in DDR\nDirector of the Main Operations Department and deputy chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. In both capacities he is actively involved in shaping and implementing the military campaign of the Russian forces in Ukraine.\nAccording to the stated activities of the general staff, by exercising operational control over the armed forces, he is actively involved in shaping and implementing the Russian government policy threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.\n16.2.2015\n150.\nIosif (Joseph) Davydovich KOBZON\nИосиф Дaвыдович Кобзон\nBorn on 11.9.1937 in Tchassov Yar, Ukraine\nMember of the State Duma.\nHe visited the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and during his visit made statements supporting separatists. He was also appointed Honorary Consul of the so-called ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ in the Russian Federation.\nOn 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects- the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.\n16.2.2015\n151.\nValery Fedorovich RASHKIN\nВалерий Фёдорович Рашкин\nBorn on 14.3.1955 in the Kaliningrad Oblast, USSR.\nFirst Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Ethnicity issues.\nHe is the founder of the civil movement ‘Krassnaya Moskva- Red Moscow -Patriotic Front Aid’ which organised public demonstrations supporting separatists, thereby supporting policies which undermine the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.\nOn 20 March 2014 he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law ‘on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the Republic of Crimea and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects- the republic of Crimea and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol’.\n16.2.2015",
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