The U.S., following the EU, expanded sanctions against Russia

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The U.S. sanctions lists include six individuals and eight organizations associated with Russia. The U.S. Department of the Treasury announced the tightening of anti-Russian sanctions on Friday, March 15. The “black list” includes six individuals and eight organizations dealing with Russia. In the sanctions list fell the Deputy head of the Border service of FSB of the Russian Federation Gennady Medvedev, head of the border Department of the FSB in Crimea, rear Admiral Sergei Stankevich, head of one of the border control the captain of the first rank Ruslan Romashkin, Deputy head of the border control the captain of the first rank Andrey Shein and Deputy Chairman of the CEC declared the Donetsk national Republic (DND) Sergey Naidenko and Secretary of the CEC DND Vladimir Vysotsky. Washington has also imposed restrictions against Russian companies “Concern “Oceanpribor”, “Plant “Fiolent”, “Sudokompozit”, “New projects”, “Console-Stroy”, “Star”, “Yaroslavsky shipyard” and “Zelenodolsk plant named after A. M. Gorky”. The State Department reported that the U.S. caused a new tightening of sanctions by the incident in the Kerch Strait in November 2018. “Today, the United States, EU, and Canada took coordinated action in response to Russia’s continued aggression against Ukraine by imposing sanctions on individuals who orchestrated the unjustified November 25 attack on three Ukrainian naval vessels near the Kerch Strait”, the report said. Earlier today, the European Union extended for six months previously imposed sanctions against individual citizens of Russia, as well as imposed sanctions against eight people involved in the incident in the Kerch Strait. Source: Korrespondent