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Feb 22 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
U.K. Sanctions five Russian banks :- Rossiya, IS Bank, General Bank, Promsvyazbank & the Black Sea Bank AND sanctions would be applied to billionaire oligarchs Gennady Timchenko, Boris Rotenberg & Igor Rotenberg as three "very high net worth individuals".
news.sky.com/story/ukraine-…
“Any assets they hold in the UK will be frozen, the individuals concerned will be banned from travelling here, and we will prohibit all UK individuals and entities from having any dealings with them," Mr Johnson said.”

Aligning with previous US sanctions.
“Mr Timchenko is a major shareholder in Rossiya, while the Rotenbergs are described by the Foreign Office as having close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Boris Rotenberg is a major shareholder of SMP Bank, while Igor Rotenberg is invested in Russia's transport sector”
“All three have been on the US sanctions list for a number of years as associates of Mr Putin.”

I think we will need more wide reaching and deeper and swift sanctions to really cause the necessary leverage.
As @antartica81 points out Alfa Bank is not on the list (remember the US security server attacks?) but I am sure how deep their business ties to the U.K. are.

justsecurity.org/72262/the-trum…

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Feb 23
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And more SPS checks are soon supposed to be carried out on imports…
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Shutting out Russia from SWIFT would not be a surgical strike

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