"For War Condemnation": Russian oligarchs seek sanctions - Bloomberg

The former owner of the Bank's Tinkoff Oleg Tinkov sent a letter to the UK Ministry of Foreign Affairs, calling for sanctions from him due to the fact that he "left the Russian Federation and does not support Putin's regime. " The oligarch stated that he considers the correct imposition of restrictions on persons related to the President of Russia or those who support the war in Ukraine. Tinkov emphasized that it is not in this category of people.

"The withdrawal of sanctions from me would be fair and would signal that Western sanctions are not directed at all Russians, but only to those who support Putin and his invasion," the businessman said. In turn, Russian businessman and oppositionist Mikhail Khodorkovsky stated that the introduction of Tinkov in the list of sanctions was a mistake.

According to Khodorkovsky, the removal of restrictions should be conditioned by a person's public position on the military aggression of the Russian Federation in Ukraine and the Putin regime. The authors of the publication note that the removal of sanctions was also tried to reach the owner of "Alpha Group" by Russian oligarch Michael Friedman.

The head of the Corruption Fund Alexei Navalny Leonid Volkov claims that Friedman and his business partners condemned the mitigation of sanctions, as the oligarch has publicly called the events in Ukraine a "tragedy". At the same time, the businessman did not notice the criticism of Vladimir Putin. "Only in the presence of a sanction strategy will be effective. Otherwise, people have nowhere to run except back to Moscow, where they become even more dependent on Putin.

They need to imagine a clear option - do that and sanctions will be removed," - argues their own The position of the politician. Volkov also sent a letter to the EU stating the need to exclude from the list of sanctions from the Russian Federation, who condemn military aggression. In his opinion, sanctions touched some "honest businessmen" that are not related to crimes of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Ukraine.

It should be reminded that on January 21 in the United States, a former high -ranking FBI, Charles McGonigal, was arrested by Sergiy Shestakov's judicial translator, who came into conspiracy with Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, trying to achieve sanctions from him. Last December, Bloomberg also wrote that Russian businessmen Mikhail Friedman, Petro Aven, Herman Khan and Gennady Tymchenko and his wife sued the European Court of Justice to declare property within six weeks.