Sanctions Tracker Australia

7 individuals: Ekaterina Borisovna ALTABAEVA, Lidia Aleksandrovna BASOVA, Sergei Andreevich DANILENKO, Yuriy Mikhailovich GOTSANYUK, Vladimir Vladimirovich NEMTSEV, Ekaterina Eduardovna PYRKOVA, and Mikhail Vladimirovich RAZVOZHAEV.

13 individuals: Ghassem Damavandian, Hamidreza Sharifi-Tehrani, Reza Khaki, Majid Reza Niyazi-Angili, Vali Arlanizadeh, Hossein Shamsabadi, Ali Reza Tangsiri, Abualfazl Nazeri, Mohsen Asadi, Mohammad Sadegh Heidari Mousa, Abulfazl Salehnejad, Mohammad Reza Mohammadi, and Abulghasem Valagohar.

4 individuals:

• Yousef Aboutalebi,
• Abdollah Mehrabi,
• Hamid Vahedi, and
• Sayed Hojatollah Qureishi.

4 entities:

• Design and Manufacturing of Aircraft Engines,
• Design and Manufacturing of Aircraft Engines,
• Oje Parvaz Mado Nafar Company, and
• Paravar Pars Company.

25 April 2022

(announced on 1 April 2022)

Trade restrictions – increased import tariffs

(announced 1 April 2022)

Australia issued a formal notification withdrawing entitlements to the Most-Favoured Nation (MFN) tariff treatment and will, from 25 April 2022, apply an additional tariff of 35% to all imports from Russia and Belarus. This will be in addition to general duty rates that currently apply.

The Australian government extended the application of a punitive tariff on goods imported from Russia and Belarus until October 2023 (as noted here).

Certain goods relating to oil, petroleum, coal, and gas will be designated as 'import sanctioned goods' from 25 April 2022.

A full list can be accessed here.

14 entities: Kamaz, Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port, Ruselectronics, United Shipbuilding Corporation, Sevmash, Alrosa, Sovcomflot, Russian Railways, Gazprom, Gazprom Neft, Transneft, Rostelecom, RusHydro, and Gas Industry Insurance Company SOGAZ.

These sanctions target certain defence related entities, shipping companies, a transportation company, and an electronic component company which is responsible for the production of around 80 per cent of all Russian electronic components.

7 April 2022

67 individuals, including a military official and senior Russian government officials.

Please note that Alexander Abramov's listing at 103 was updated on 16 September 2022 (as described here).

14 individuals responsible for the serious corruption Mr Magnistky exposed, and a further 25 individuals that were perpetrators and accomplices of his abuse and death.

[Note: these sanctions are not related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but has been included for completeness for additional sanctions imposed on Russian designated entities and/or individuals.]

11 entities: Sberbank, VTB Bank, Gazprombank, Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs, Rosselkhozbank, Sovcombank, Novikombank, Alfa-Bank, Credit Bank of Moscow, National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, and Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation.

These sanctions target Russian Government entities responsible for issuing and managing Russia's sovereign debt.

10 individuals: Maria Vladimirovna Zakharova, Vladimir Rudolfovich Solovyov, Konstantin Knyrik, Modest Alexeyevich Kolerov, Yevgeniy Nikolaevich Prilepin, Anton Vyacheslavovich Krasovsky, Arkady Viktorovich Mamontov, Yuriy Anatolyevich Prokofyev, Yuriy Sergeyevich Fedin, and Dmitry Sergeyvich Peskov.

These sanctions target individuals spreading propaganda and/or disinformation.

28 February 2022 

(announced, but not yet implemented) ⁶⁷                                             

Visa restrictions –"golden passports"

Transatlantic task force

Extensions of the Minister's discretion to impose an asset freeze and/or a travel ban on the following class of people:

1. A person or entity that the Minister is satisfied is, or has been, engaging in an activity or performing a function that is of economic or strategic significance to Russia.
2. A current or former Minister or senior official of the Russian Government.
3. An immediate family member of a person mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).

Sectoral sanctions - Donetsk and Luhansk regions

(updated on 28 March 2022 to reflect amendments made)

On 28 March 2022, references to 'Crimea' and 'Sevastopol' in the Autonomous Sanctions Regulations 2011 were substituted with 'a specified Ukraine region'.

Specified Ukraine region will includes Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Sevastopol, and a region of Ukraine specified by the Minister under regulation 3B. The substitution extends the previous sanctions on Crimea and Sevastopol to now also cover Donetsk and Luhansk. These sanctions largely prohibit trade in the transport, energy, telecommunications, and oil, gas and mineral sectors.