The United States has expanded sanctions against Russia. The updated lists of the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control include Sistema, Arctic LNG-2, SPB Exchange, Pochta Bank, and many others.
Sanctions were also imposed against Bauman Moscow State Technical University, AEON and the son of its founder, Gleb Trotsenko.
The blacklist includes:
The US State Department has taken action against a network of companies that supply dual-use microelectronics and other technologies to the Russian defense industry. On this basis, Baltelektron, Macro Tim, Advanto Electro, Comfort Max, and related companies Dafengm and Neway Technologies Limited were added to the list.
As The Insider previously reported in an investigation, Moscow-based Macro Tim LLC received $226,000 worth of Texas Instruments chips and $211,000 worth of Analog Devices chips from March to November 2022. They are used in Russian missiles and satellite communications systems.
This company was a regular supplier of electronics to the FSB's military unit 35533, having fulfilled at least 86 government orders for chips, other electronic devices and components.
In addition, the sanctions affected a number of subsidiaries of Gazprom Neft and the Research Center for Cybernetics and Automation.
Background. The day before, it was reported that three Russians were arrested in the United States and accused of supplying $10 million worth of American electronics to the Russian army.