A fresh set of sanctions being announced by the UK government on the seven Russian oligarchs, where their assets will be freezed and a travel ban being imposed as well. Those sanctioned are:
- Roman Abramovich (owner of Chelsea FC and has stakes in steel giant Evraz and Norilsk Nickel)
- Oleg Deripaska (has stakes in En+ Group)
- Igor Sechin (is the Chief Executive of Rosneft)
- Andrey Kostin (is Chairman of VTB bank)
- Alexei Miller (is CEO of energy company Gazprom)
- Nikolai Tokarev (is president of the Russia state-owned pipeline company Transneft)
- Dmitri Lebedev (is Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank Rossiya)
