The EU imposed sanctions against almost 1.6 thousand military-industrial complex enterprises and their managers

The European Union added 1,569 Russian enterprises, organizations and individuals associated with the Russian military-industrial complex to its sanctions lists; the restrictions came into force on October 12.

The EU Council added to the list 826 legal entities and 743 individuals subject to restrictive measures.

To determine the enterprises subject to sanctions, the European Union used a list of organizations of the military-industrial complex compiled by the Russian government.

BRUSSELS, Oct 12 - RIA Novosti. The European Union included in the sanctions lists 1,569 Russian enterprises, organizations and individuals associated, according to the EU Council, with the military-industrial complex of Russia; the restrictions came into force on October 12, follows from the decision published in the official journal of the EU, which was reviewed by RIA Novosti.

“The Council believes that 826 legal entities and 743 individuals should be added to the list of persons and organizations subject to restrictive measures,” the document says.

Russia has repeatedly stated that Western sanctions have not achieved their goals, and the Russian economy has adapted to them. Moscow emphasized that sanctions pressure harms the states themselves that impose restrictions.

At the same time, as follows from the reasoning part of the decision, to determine the enterprises subject to sanctions, the European Union used, among other things, a list of organizations of the military-industrial complex entitled to state subsidies compiled by the Russian government. On this basis, the EU Council considered the enterprises to be part of the Russian military-industrial complex, and their leaders as persons providing support to the Russian military-industrial complex.

Among the enterprises appearing in the sanctions document are the Motovilikha Plants, the Northern Design Bureau, the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau, the Ufa Instrument-Making Production Association, the Kaluga Electromechanical Plant, the Parachute Manufacturing Research Institute and the Perm Mashinostroitel Plant.

The extensive sanctions lists also include shipbuilding enterprises, in particular the Admiralty Shipyards, the Vyborg Shipyard, the Kronstadt Marine Plant, enterprises in the automotive industry, instrument making and radio electronics.

The organizations mentioned also included the Gorky Automobile Plant, the Altai Instrument-Making Plant "Rotor", the "Electrovypryamitel" plant, the "Angstrem" enterprise, the Chaplygin Siberian Aviation Research Institute and the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences.

The lists also include textile industry organizations, in particular the Borisoglebsk garment factory and the Shchelkovo silk weaving factory.

Among the individuals included in the sanctions lists are the general director of the United Rocket and Space Corporation Sergei Gureev, the head of the Russian Space Systems company Dmitry Avtaikin, the general director of the Signal Research Institute Vladimir Pimenov, the ex-general director of the Kronstadt Marine Plant Anatoly Beloev, and the heads of a number of other Russian industrial enterprises and scientific organizations.

The sanctions also affected the heads of organizations associated with Roscosmos, including the Research Institute of Precision Instruments and rocket and space industry enterprises.