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TOKYO, 21 June. The Japanese government has blacklisted 11 people and 42 companies from Russia on the sanctions imposed on Moscow over the situation in Ukraine, the country's Cabinet of Ministers announced. The blacklisted companies include the Russian Federal Nuclear Center, the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, the Degtyaryov Plant, the Izhevsk Dome Electromechanical Plant, the Perm Powder Plant, the Nizhny Novgorod 70th Anniversary of Victory Plant and others.
Natalia Budarina, secretary of the Central Election Commission (CEC), is on the list, along with five other CEC members, as well as Boris Obnosov, head of the Tactical Missiles Corporation, Alexander Potapov, director general of Uralvagonzavod, and Mkrtich Okroyan, chief designer of the Soyuz scientific and technical complex of aircraft engines.
Also blacklisted are Russian diamond miner Alrosa and aircraft manufacturers Tupolev and Ilyushin.
The list of companies whose assets are to be frozen if found in Japan includes the Russian Federal Nuclear Center and several companies in the engineering and defense industries, such as the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant, the Degtyaryov Plant, the Izhevsk Kupol Electromechanical Plant, the Perm Powder Plant, the Nizhny Novgorod 70th Anniversary Victory Plant, the Arzamas Instrument-Building Plant, and the Northwest Regional Center of the Almaz Antey Obukhov Plant.
Export restrictions have been imposed on the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, the Vega Radio Engineering Corporation, the Vniir-Progress Research Institute, the Geomir Engineering Centre and others.
Japanese sanctions have also been imposed on seven companies from China, including Alpha Trading Investments, Guangzhou Ausay Technology and Shenzhen Biguang Trading, as well as the UAE's Sun Ship Management, India's Si2 Microsystems, Kazakhstan's Elem Group and Uzbekistan's Mvizion LLC.
The Japanese sanctions, which were imposed in several stages due to the situation in Ukraine, already affect more than 1,000 people and more than 150 entities from Russia. To date, the assets of Alfa Bank, VTB, VEB.RF, Novikombank, Otkritie Bank, Promsvyazbank, Rossiya Bank, Sberbank, Sovcombank and approximately 40 other organisations and companies have been frozen. In addition, Japan has approved a list of goods and technologies banned for export to Russia, which already includes some 800 items. Specifically, the export of automobiles valued at more than 6 million yen (about $43,000) has been banned. Japan has also banned the supply of gasoline and diesel cars with an engine capacity of more than 1.9 litres and hybrid cars to Russia from 9 August 2023.
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