Articles with a tag: Crimean sanctions

The Russian «overseer» of occupied Crimea changed at the beginning of the last year. Marat Khusnullin, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, replaced Dmytry Kozak. He manages all Crimean policies of the Russian government: from budgetary financial flows and «privatization» of stolen Ukrainian assets to predatory exploitation of natural resources. Local «government» and Sergey Aksyonov, the head of Crimea, are puppets at Mr. Khusnullin’s hands. His influence is growing. However, he is still not covered by Western and Ukrainian sanctions, though, he does deserve them.