On Friday, 11 April 2014, the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated an additional seven individuals in Ukraine as being subject to U.S. sanctions. The following persons were designated: Aleksei Mikhailovich Chaliy, Mikhail Grigorevich Malyshev, Valery Kirillovich Medvedev, Rustam Ilmirovich Temirgaliev, Sergey Pavlovich Tsekov, Yuriy Gennadievych Zherebtsov, and Pyotr Anatoliyovych Zima. These individuals were already targeted by EU sanctions, illustrating an increasing overlap between EU and U.S. lists of designated persons.
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