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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-577/annex",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/577",
  "legislation_title": "Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 577/2014 of 28 May 2014 implementing Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 concerning restrictive measures in respect of actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine",
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  "text": "The entries for the following persons and entities set out in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 are replaced by the entries below.\nPersons:\nName\nIdentifying information\nStatement of reasons\nDate of listing\nVladimir Andreevich Konstantinov\n(Владимир Андреевич Константинов)\nd.o.b. 19.11.1956\nVladimirovca, Slobozia District, Republic of Moldova\nAs speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, Konstantinov played a relevant role in the decisions taken by the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea concerning the ‘referendum’ against the territorial integrity of Ukraine and called on voters to cast votes in favour of Crimean Independence.\n17.3.2014\nPyotr Anatolyevich Zima\n(Пётр Анатольевич Зима)\nd.o.b. 29.3.1965\nZima was appointed as the new head of the Crimean Security Service (SBU) on 3 March 2014 by ‘Prime Minister’ Aksyonov and accepted this appointment. He has given relevant information including a database to the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR). This included information on Euro-Maidan activists and human rights defenders of Crimea. He played a relevant role in preventing Ukraine's authorities from controlling the territory of Crimea.\nOn 11 March 2014 the formation of an independent Security Service of Crimea was proclaimed by former SBU officers of Crimea.\n17.3.2014\nYuriy Gennadyevich Zherebtsov\n(Юрий Геннадьевич Жеребцов)\nd.o.b. 19.11.1965\nCounsellor of the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea, one of the leading organizers of the 16 March 2014‘referendum’ against Ukraine's territorial integrity.\n17.3.2014\nAnatoliy Alekseevich Sidorov\n(Анатолий Алексеевич Сидоров)\nd.o.b. 2.7.1958\nCommander of Russia's Western Military District, units of which are deployed in Crimea. He is responsible for part of the Russian military presence in Crimea which is undermining the sovereignty of Ukraine and assisted the Crimean authorities in preventing public demonstrations against moves towards a ‘referendum’ and incorporation into Russia.\n17.3.2014\nAleksandr Viktorovich Galkin\n(Александр Викторович Галкин)\nd.o.b. 22.3.1958\nCommander of Russia's Southern Military District (‘SMD’). SMD forces are deployed in Crimea. He is responsible for part of the Russian military presence in Crimea which is undermining the sovereignty of Ukraine and assisted the Crimean authorities in preventing public demonstrations against moves towards a ‘referendum’ and incorporation into Russia.\nThe Black Sea Fleet comes under Galkin's command; much of the force movement into Crimea has come through the Southern Military District\n17.3.2014\nMikhail Grigoryevich Malyshev\n(Михаил Григорьевич Малышев)\nd.o.b. 10.10.1955\nChair of the Crimean Electoral Commission.\nResponsible for administering the Crimean ‘referendum’. Responsible under the Russian system for signing ‘referendum’ results.\n21.3.2014\nValery Kirillovich Medvedev\n(Валерий Кириллович Медведев)\nd.o.b. 21.8.1946\nRussia\nResponsible for administering the Crimean ‘referendum’. Responsible under the Russian system for signing ‘referendum’ results.\n21.3.2014\nLTL. Gen. Igor Nikolaevich Turchenyuk\n(Игорь Николаевич Турченюк)\nd.o.b. 5.12.1959\nKirghizia/Osh\nThe de-facto Commander of Russian troops deployed on the ground in Crimea (whom Russia continues to refer to officially as ‘local self-defence militias’).\n21.3.2014\nElena Borisovna Mizulina\n(Елена Борисовна Мизулина)\nd.o.b. 9.12.1954\nBuly, Kostroma Oblast\nOriginator and co-sponsor of recent legislative proposals in Russia that would have allowed regions of other countries to join Russia without their central authorities' prior agreement.\n21.3.2014\nValeriy Dmitrievich Bolotov\n(Валерий Дмитриевич Болотов)\nd.o.b. 13.2.1970\nStachanov, Lugansk Oblast, Ukrainian SSR\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. Before seizing the building he and other accomplices possessed arms apparently supplied illegally from Russia and from local criminal groups.\n29.4.2014\nAndriy Yevgenevich Purgin\n(Андрей Евгеньевич Пургин)\nd.o.b. 26.1.1972\nHead of the ‘Donetsk Republic’, active participant and organiser of separatist actions, coordinator of actions of the ‘Russian tourists’ in Donetsk. Co-founder of a ‘Civic initiative of Donbasfor the Eurasian Union.’\n29.4.2014\nSergey Gennadevich Tsyplakov\n(Сергей Геннадьевич Цыплаков)\nd.o.b. 1.5.1983\nDonetsk, Ukrainian SSR\nOne of the leaders of the ideologically radical organization People's Militia of Donbas. He took active part in the seizure of a number of state buildings in the Donetsk region.\n29.4.2014\nIgor Vsevolodovich Girkin a.k.a. Igor Strelkov\n(Игорь Всеволодович Гиркин)\nd.o.b. 17.12.1970\npassport no. 4506460961\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 the assistant on security issues to Sergey Aksionov, self-proclaimed prime-minister of Crimea.\n29.4.2014\nViacheslav Ponomariov\nVyacheslav Vladimirovich Ponomariov\n(Вячеслав Владимирович Пономарёв)\nd.o.b. 2.5.1965\nSlovinsk\nSelf-declared mayor of Sloviansk. Ponomarev called on Vladimir Putin to send Russian troops to protect the city and later asked him to supply weapons. Ponomarev's men are involved in kidnappings (they captured Ukrainian reporters Irma Krat and Simon Ostrovsky, a reporter for Vice News. Both were later released. They detained military observers deployed under OSCE Vienna Document).\n12.5.2014\nIgor Mykolaiovych Bezler\nIgor Nikolaevich Bezler,\n(Игорь Николаевич Безлер)\nd.o.b. 30.12.1965\nSimferopol\nOne of the leaders of the self-proclaimed militia of Horlivka. He took control of the Security Service of Ukraine's office in the Donetsk region building and afterwards seized the Ministry of Internal Affairs' district station in the town of Horlivka. He has links to Igor Girkin under whose command he was involved in the murder of People's Deputy of the Horlivka's Municipal Council Volodymyr Rybak according to the SBU.\n12.5.2014\nOleg Tsariov\nOleg Anatolevich Tsariov\n(Олег Анатолійович Царьов)\n(Олег Анатольевич Царёв)\nd.o.b. 2.6.1970\nDnipropetrovsk\nMember of the Rada. Publicly called for the creation of the Federal Republic of Novorossia, composed of South Eastern Ukrainian regions.\n12.5.2014\nRoman Lyagin\n(Роман Лягин)\nd.o.b. 30.5.1980\nDonetsk\nHead of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’ Central Electoral Commission. Actively organised the referendum on 11 May on the self-determination of the ‘Donetsk People's Republic’.\n12.5.2014\nEntities:\nName\nIdentifying information\nStatement of reasons\nDate of listing\nPJSC Chernomorneftegaz\na.k.a Chornomornaftogaz\nProspekt Kirova/per. Sovarkomovskji 52/1 Simferopol, Crimea\nOn 17 March 2014 the ‘Parliament of Crimea’ adopted a resolution declaring the appropriation of assets belonging to Chernomorneftegaz enterprise on behalf of the ‘Republic of Crimea’. The enterprise is thus effectively confiscated by the Crimean ‘authorities’.\n12.5.2014\nFeodosia\na.k.a Feodossyskoje Predprijatije po obespetscheniju nefteproduktami\n98107, Crimea, Feodosiya, Geologicheskaya str.2\nCompany providing transhipment services for crude oil and oil products.\nOn 17 March 2014 the ‘Parliament of Crimea’ adopted a resolution declaring the appropriation of assets belonging to Feodosia enterprise on behalf of the ‘Republic of Crimea’. The enterprise is thus effectively confiscated by the Crimean ‘authorities’.\n12.5.2014",
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