Latest E.U. Sanctions Get Personal With Putin’s Daughters and Confidants

Various high-profile names have been added Friday to the European Union’s listing 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 underneath an assumed identify, Maria Vorontsova, have been among the many dozens of recent 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 the very least one of many girls has up to now lived within the Netherlands.

The brand new E.U. sanctions included distinguished figures in Mr. Putin’s shut atmosphere, together with some who’ve been linked to him for many years.

Amongst them is Herman Gref, one of the crucial trusted technocrats in Mr. Putin’s financial coverage workforce. 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 growth in Russia that abruptly ended with the 2008 world recession.

For the previous 15 years, Mr. Gref, who met Mr. Putin within the Nineteen Nineties in St. Petersburg, has been the chief govt of Sberbank, Russia’s greatest monetary establishment. Sberbank has not been sanctioned by the European Union, in distinction to a number of different main banks.

One other distinguished identify on the brand new E.U. listing is Boris Rotenberg, who can hint his relationship with Mr. Putin to a lot earlier instances.

Within the Sixties, he practiced judo in the identical college with the longer term president. Following Mr. Putin’s accession to the Kremlin, Mr. Rotenberg, collectively along with his brother Arkady, cobbled collectively a pipeline building empire, profitable profitable contracts from Gazprom, Russia’s pure gasoline large.