The US imposed sanctions against six Duma deputies in the Crimea

The United States imposed sanctions against Russian State Duma Deputies who were elected in the annexed Crimea, as reported on the website of the US Treasury.

The sanctions list indicates the names of six Crimean Deputies: Ruslan Balbek, Dmitry Belik, Ruslan Baharev, Svetlana Savchenko, Andrei Kozenko, and Pavel Shperov.

On November 9th, the European Union included the Deputies elected in the occupied Crimea to the State Duma on the anti-Russian sanctions list. At September's parliamentary elections to the Russian State Duma, eight deputies were elected in the Crimea. Mikhail Sheremet and Natalia Poklonskaya have been on the sanctions list since 2014.

  Ukraine, Russia, USA, Crimea, Elections, Duma, Sanctions

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