In a judgment delivered on Wednesday 23 September (case T-584/24), the General Court of the European Union has removed Russian national Oleg Polikarpovich Tkach, for 2024 and 2025, from the list of persons sanctioned by the EU because of activities threatening Ukraine’s sovereignty.
According to the General Court, the reasons that led to EU sanctions against that person - being a member of Russia’s Federation Council that ratified the cooperation treaties between Moscow and the occupied Ukrainian regions, and being the founder of a publishing group controlling the publishing house Enlightenment, involved in promoting the war - were valid when the Russian military aggression was launched. But they are no longer sufficient to justify keeping Mr Polikarpovich Tkach on the EU sanctions list.
See the General Court’s judgment (in French): https://aeur.eu/f/nkl (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)