The United States has expanded the list of Russians, for cooperation with which will be punished

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added a Russian citizen and company in the Russian defense and intelligence sectors to the 33 blacklist.

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This is stated on the site US State Department, is now on the 72 person and company list.

The list began to form in October 2017 year, for cooperation with the people and organizations specified in it will introduce sanctions.

The list added, in particular, PMC "Wagner" (the company is suspected of searching and sending military mercenaries to conduct combat operations in Syria and Ukraine), "Internet Research Agency" (which is also called the "troll factory"), companies Evgeny Prigogine “Concord Management and Consulting” and “Concord Catering”, Evgeny Prigogine himself, as well as the alleged employees of the “trolley factory” and GRU staff whom the United States is accused of interfering in the election of the American president in 2016 year.

“Today’s actions are not aimed at undermining the military capabilities of any country, but at imposing on Russia the price for interfering in the US electoral process, for its unacceptable actions in the east of Ukraine and other harmful activities,” the State Department said.

The list includes 27 Russians and six companies that are considered to be associated with the defense industry or Russian intelligence services, writes RBC.

The list is divided into two parts - "defense" and "intelligence."

The new defendants of the sanctions list in the first part were three companies:

• Wagner Private Military Company (PMC);
• Oboronlogistics LLC, a logistics company of the Ministry of Defense of Russia;
• Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant named after Yury Gagarin (KnAAPO), which produces Sukhoi aircraft.

In the list of Russian individuals and companies connected, according to the USA, with intelligence, three companies are also included:

• Agency online investigations. Appears in the investigation of the US Special Prosecutor in the so-called Russian case. Eliminated at the end of 2016, RBC sources had previously called him one of the legal entities “troll factory”;
• Concord Catering (Concord Catering LLC) is a company registered by businessman Evgeny Prigozhin after mentioning a company with such a name in the “Russian case”;
• Concord Management and Consulting LLC (Concord Management & Consulting LLC). On 100% belongs to Prigogine. Specializes in catering at official receptions.

From individuals to the "intelligence" sector included:

• Head of the Main Department of the General Staff Igor Korobov;
• Deputy Chief of the General Staff Sergei Gizunov.

The list also includes people whom the US authorities called officers of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia and accused of interfering in the elections:

• Victor Netyksho;
• Boris Antonov;
• Nikolai Kozachek;
• Pavel Ershov;
• Artem Malyshev;
• Dmitry Badin;
• Alexey Lukashev;
• Sergey Morgachev;
• Alexander Osadchuk;
• Alexey Potemkin;
• Ivan Ermakov;
• Anatoly Kovalev.

The list includes 13 Russian citizens whom Washington suspects of interfering in the presidential election through the creation of a "factory of trolls":

• businessman Yevgeny Prigogine;
• Jeyhun Nasimi oglu Aslanov (also known as Jeyhun Aslanov);
• Anna Bogacheva;
• Maria Bovda (also known as Maria Belyaeva);
• Robert Bovda;
• Mikhail Burchik (also known as Mikhail Abramov);
• Mikhail Bystrov;
• Alexandra Krylova;
• Sergey Polozov;
• Vadim Podkopaev;
• Gleb Vasilchenko;
• Vladimir Venkov;
• Irina Kaverzina.

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