On Wednesday 9 November, the EU added six parliamentarians from the Russian Duma – Ruslan Ismailovich Balbek, Konstantin Mikhailovich Bakharev, Dmitry Anatolievich Belik, Andrei Dmitrievich Kozenko, Svetlana Borisovna Savchenko and Pavel Valentinovich Shperov – to the list of people subject to restrictive measures as a result of action compromising Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence (see EUROPE 11663).
These measures – a freezing of assets and an EU travel ban – are justified, according to the legal acts published in the EU Official Journal in that the individuals are "members of the Russian Federation State Duma, elected from the illegally annexed Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol". The other two members of the Russian Duma for Crimea – Mikhail Sheremet and Natalya Poklonskaya – are already subject to sanctions.
Sanctions now apply to a total of 152 persons and 37 entities and will run until 15 March 2017. They have been issued because of action compromising Ukraine’s territorial integrity, sovereignty and impendence. (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant)