The U.S. Finance Ministry expanded the list of sanctions against a number of Russian corporations

The US authorities have extended sanctions against a number of Russian corporations and their executives. This was reported on January 10 on the website of the U.S. Ministry of Finance.

Thus, the sanctions list includes Gazprom Neft and its head Alexander Dyukov, Surgutneftegaz, as well as the head of Zarubezhneft Sergey Kudryashov. In addition, restrictions were imposed on Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev.

The list also included Gazprom's medium-tonnage plant for liquefaction of natural gas on the Baltic coast "Gazprom LNG Portovaya", about 100 vessels involved in the transportation of hydrocarbons of the Russian Federation, and insurance companies Ingosstrakh and AlfaStrakhovanie.

Restrictions against Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz were also imposed by London.

"For the first time, the UK and the US are directly imposing sanctions against Gazprom Neft and Surgutneftegaz, two Russian oil giants," the British government said on its website.

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In late November last year, the US imposed sanctions against the first deputy chairmen of the Bank of Russia, Vladimir Chistyukhin and Dmitry Tulin, as well as a number of Russian banks, including CentroCredit, ITURUP, Bratsk People's Bank and other financial structures.

At the same time, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said that Western sanctions will not lead to restrictions on Russia's foreign trade. According to him, all restrictions by Western countries first of all hit them. Siluanov emphasized that in 2024 the dynamics of economic growth in Russia will be about 4%, while the dynamics of the West will be "0.1% at best".

Western countries increased sanctions pressure on Russia after the start of the special operation to protect civilians in Donbass, which was announced on February 24, 2022.