A variety of high-profile names have been added Friday to the European Union’s checklist of sanctioned people as a part of the bloc’s fifth bundle of measures towards Russia, none extra private for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia than his personal daughters.
The daughters, Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Putina, who has been dwelling below an assumed identify, Maria Vorontsova, have been among the many dozens of latest people focused with asset freezes and journey bans by the European Union.
Mr. Putin has historically been extraordinarily secretive about his daughters, barely mentioning their names and providing no particulars about their lives in public. At least one of many ladies has up to now lived within the Netherlands.
The new E.U. sanctions included outstanding figures in Mr. Putin’s shut surroundings, together with some who’ve been linked to him for many years.
Among them is Herman Gref, probably the most trusted technocrats in Mr. Putin’s financial coverage staff. He was the architect of Mr. Putin’s financial reforms throughout his first tenure as president, serving to to set the stage for an financial increase in Russia that abruptly ended with the 2008 world recession.
For the previous 15 years, Mr. Gref, who met Mr. Putin within the Nineties in St. Petersburg, has been the chief govt of Sberbank, Russia’s largest monetary establishment. Sberbank has not been sanctioned by the European Union, in distinction to a number of different main banks.
Another outstanding identify on the brand new E.U. checklist is Boris Rotenberg, who can hint his relationship with Mr. Putin to a lot earlier occasions.
In the Sixties, he practiced judo in the identical college with the long run president. Following Mr. Putin’s accession to the Kremlin, Mr. Rotenberg, collectively along with his brother Arkady, cobbled collectively a pipeline development empire, profitable profitable contracts from Gazprom, Russia’s pure gasoline large.