The US has added to its blacklist some ten members of the management board of Russia’s VTB Bank, which was earlier sanctioned, the US Department of Treasury stated, Trend reports citing TASS.
"Today, OFAC (the Office of Foreign Assets Control) is designating the ten individuals comprising VTB Bank’s management board," the statement reads.
The US leadership has imposed sanctions on General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov and ten other Russian lawmakers.
Apart from Zyuganov, the blacklist includes Ivan Melnikov, Vladimir Kashin, Nikolay Kolomeytsev, Yury Afonin, Dmitry Novikov, Leonid Kalashnikov, Kazbek Taysaev, Yevgeny Bessonov, Nikolay Osadchy and Alexey Kurinny.
Furthermore, the penalties were introduced against Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin. According to the Department of the Treasury, he was already subjected to sanctions in 2014.
US Department of State Spokesperson Ned Price said that the United States also imposes sanctions on Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov’s wife and adult children.