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Obama Issues Executive Order Freezing Assets Of Seven Putin Aides
As was largely expected, the first retaliation by Obama has arrived, courtesy of a just issued Executive Order by the president, in which he has blocked and frozen "all property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person" (i.e. assets) of not only the pre-coup Ukraine president Yanukovich and the Crimean leader Aksyonov, including all Russians that operate in the Russian arms industry, but most notably seven Putin aides. Not Putin himself of course - that would be too "escalatory"...
From the White House:
I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660 of March 6, 2014, finding that the actions and policies of the Government of the Russian Federation with respect to Ukraine -- including the recent deployment of Russian Federation military forces in the Crimea region of Ukraine -- undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misappropriation of its assets, and thereby constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. Accordingly, I hereby order:
Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person (including any foreign branch) of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in...
The people impacted:
- Vladislav Surkov
Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov (born 21 September 1964)[1] is a Russian businessman and politician. He was First Deputy of the Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration from 1999 to 2011, during which time he was widely seen as the main ideologist of the Kremlin. Allegedly he contributed greatly to the electoral victory of President Vladimir Putin in 2004. Surkov is seen as the main architect of the current Russian political system, often described as "sovereign" or "managed" democracy.
From December 2011 until 8 May 2013 he served as the Russian Federation's Deputy Prime Minister. While his resignation was described as voluntary, presidential spokesman Peskov linked the resignation with the government's failure to carry out decrees by President Putin., in the late 1980s he started as a businessman as the government lifted the ban against private businesses. He became a head of the advertisement department of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's businesses. During the 1990s he held key managerial positions in advertisement and PR departments of Khodorkovsky's Bank Menatep (1991 – April 1996) and Rosprom (March 1996 – February 1997) and Fridman's Alfa-Bank (since February 1997).
In September 2004 Surkov was elected president of the board of directors of the oil products transportation company Transnefteproduct, but was instructed by Russia's PM Mikhail Fradkov to give up the position in February 2006.
- Sergey Glazyev (the same person who threatened dumping US Treasurys and abandoning the US Dollar)
Sergey Yurievich Glazyev is a Russian politician and economist, Full Member of Russian Academy of Science since 2008. He was a minister in 1993, a member of the State Duma in 1993-2007, and ran for President of Russia in 2004. Glazyev was a co-founder of the Rodina party. Glazyev announced his retirement from politics in March 2007, and said that he did not intend to seek a further term in the Duma, arguing that Vladimir Putin's rule had crowded out all forms of political opposition and debate in the country.
In July 2012, Putin appointed Glazyev as presidential aide for the coordination of the work of federal agencies in developing the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Glazyev has authored more than forty books and hundreds of pamphlets and research papers. One of his books has been published in English translation by the LaRouche movement's Executive Intelligence Review as Genocide: Russia and the New World Order (ISBN 0-943235-16-2). In 1995 he was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN).
In August 2013 Glazyev claimed that stating that all Ukrainians favor Ukraine to integrate in the European Union "is some kind of sick self-delusion".[3] Because, according to him, "sociological surveys by Ukrainian sociological services say something different: 35% of people prefer the European Union and 40% the Customs Union". He blamed "numerous political scientists and experts, who have fed on European and American grants for 20 years, and a whole generation of diplomats and bureaucrats that has appeared after the years of the ‘orange’ hysteria, who are carrying out an anti-Russian agenda" and "who are too far from the economy and real life, don’t really know their country’s history and are divorced from its spiritual traditions" for creating "an effect that Ukraine doesn’t want".[3] Ukrainian opinion polls that polled support in Ukraine for European Union membership did indicate that at the time of Mr Glazyev's statements Ukrainians preferred joining the European Union rather than the Customs Union.
- Leonid Slutsky
Leonid Eduardovich Slutskii is a member of the State Duma of Russia, a member of the LDPR party. Currently he is the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the "Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and links with compatriots". Slutsky as been a First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma's Committee on International Affairs. He is dean of the international relations department at the Moscow State University of Economics, Information and Statistics. He has held senior banking positions and was an advisor to the mayor of Moscow. Slutsky also reported to a directorate of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. He holds an economics degree from the Moscow Economic-Statistical Institute
- Andrei Klishas
Dr. Andrey A. Klishas served as Vice President and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Interros Company since June 2008. Dr. Klishas is a visiting Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law Faculty and an Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Municipal Department (Legal Department) of Russian Peoples Friendship University. Dr. Klishas is an Assistant Professor of constitutional and municipal department of Moscow University for the Russian Ministry of Domestic Affairs. From June 1998 to October 2001, he was the Legal Matters Director and Deputy General Director of Interros Company. From October 2001, Dr. Klishas served as the General Director of Interros and from December 2001, he was the Chairman of the Management Board. From January 2004, Dr. Klishas was a Member of the Board of Directors of the firm. He held different posts at Russian Federal Property Fund from 1995 to 1997 and at UNEXIM Bank, where he was the Deputy Head of Legal Department from August 1997 to June 1998. On July 2007, Dr. Klishas was elected the President of Federation of Hunting Dog Breeding.
Currently, he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Polyus Gold since June 26, 2008 and Open Investments company and a Member of the Board of Agros Group and Polyus CJSC. Dr. Klishas serves as a General Director at KM Invest Private Joint Stock Company. He has been Director of MMC Norilsk Nickel since December 2008.
- Valentina Matviyenko
Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko is the highest-ranking female politician in Russia, the former governor of Saint Petersburg and the current Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. Born in the Ukrainian SSR, Matviyenko started her political career in the 1980s in Saint Petersburg (then called Leningrad) and was the First Secretary of the Krasnogvardeysky District CPSU of the city from 1984 to 1986. In the 1990s she served as Russian ambassador to Malta (1991–1995) and Greece (1997–1998). Between 1998–2003 Matviyenko was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for Welfare, and briefly the Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District in 2003. By that time she firmly allied herself with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an alliance which secured her a victory in the governor elections in Saint Petersburg, Putin's native city.
On 19 May 2007, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation announced that on 16 May it had detained several members of an undisclosed youth religious group allegedly preparing an assassination attempt on Valentina Matviyenko’s life using hand grenades and plastic explosive. On 23 May FSB Director Nikolay Patrushev announced that the prevented attempt had been scheduled for June.
Controversial businessman Vitaly Arkhangelsky accused Matviyenko in corporate raiding and corruption. According to him Matvieyenko is the real owner of the bank "Saint Petersburg" that staged a corporate raid on the property of his company, OMG that included Vyborg Port and Western Terminal of Saint Petersburg port using falsified documents with forged signature of Arkhangelsy. The lawyers of bank "Saint Petersburg" insist on exclusion materials of Matviyenko's involvement from the criminal case in London court.
- Dmitry Rogozin
Dmitryi Olegovich Rogozin is a Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in charge of defense industry. In January 2008, he became Russia's ambassador to NATO, until December 2011. He was a leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party until it merged with other similar Russian parties to form the Fair Russia party.He speaks 4 languages and holds a doctor's degree.
On 18 February 2011 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed Dmitry Rogozin as a Special Representative on anti-missile defence and negotiations with NATO countries on this issue. On 23 December 2011 Dmitry Rogozin was appointed deputy premier of Russian Government in charge of defense and space industry. As responsible for the defense industry he leads the creation of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry (Russian DARPA).
In 2008 he was appointed a Russian ambassador to NATO. As Russia's NATO envoy he was heavily opposed to Ukraine and Georgia becoming members of NATO. After the two countries were denied membership of the NATO Membership Action Plan he claimed that: "They will not invite these bankrupt scandalous regimes to join NATO...more so as important partnerships with Russia are at stake.". For such words he was criticized by some Ukrainian and Georgian officials. Former Ukraine's envoy to NATO Ihor Sahach said: "In my opinion, he is merely used as one of cogs in the informational war waged against Ukraine. Sooner or later, I think, it should be stopped". The envoy also expressed a surprise with Rogozin's slang words. "It was for the first time that I heard such a higher official as envoy using this, I don't even know how to describe it, whether it was a slang or language of criminal circles… I understand Russian, but, I'm sorry, I don't know what his words meant".The Foreign Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Ohryzko stated that he did not regard the statement as serious.
- Yelena Mizulina
Yelena Mizulina is a Russian politician serving as a member of the Russian Parliament between 1995 and 2003 and again since 2007. Since 2012, she has been the center of attention in regard to a set of controversial laws concerning the rights of the LGBT community in Russia and the adoption of Russian orphan children by foreigners. She is currently Chairman of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs. She has changed her political affiliation several times, having served public office on behalf of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the liberal Yabloko and Union of Right Forces parties and is currently representing the region of Omsk in the Duma as a representative of the social democratic A Just Russia party.
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And your mothers were hamsters.....
Yelena Mizulina? Really?
What has she done to end up on that list? Is this a joke or what? How can the world take seriously such a president? Truth is: he doesn't know nor care who's on the list, he doesn't even bother to participate to the security meetings of his own government! Must have very important matters to attend too, like???
But Putin cares and here's what he will do: Say nothing in his usual KGB way and strike where it is most painful. And where it's most painful right now is not in America but in Europe. I am convinced right now that he is meeting with financial experts to strke back selectively at some countries in Europe. I would start with France: As soon as this fools of Hollande follows suit and annouces some stupid measures, which he will, almost as certainly as night follows day, I would bring a costly mess somewhere in the former empire to make sure that it cost at least 10 to 20 billions Euros that the country doesn't have to maintain the status quo, with the implicit manace of more to come! (This is just an idea. They may come up with a better one!)
I asked a young Slovakian immigrant her take on what was happening. She said she had many Ukranian and Russian friends here and none of them understood what was going on or why. She said she and her friends couldn't make sense of the MSM news stories or the US government's actions.
Wounder if the russian´s football-teams in UK are allowed to play...if not Camron is into a big problem at home....
President BO you're a clown! any russian who's stupid enough to have left assets in the US deserves to lose it. BTW, none of the above
That reset button must be about worn out by now.
The only thing socialists do well is confiscate other people's wealth. I wonder when he is coming after my retirement accounts.
Exactly. I see none of America’s financier oligarchs made the list - Blankfein, Soros, Icahn, Safra, Bloomberg, Lemann, Buffett, Simons, Dalio. Bonderman, Rockefeller et al. - who no doubt do business in Russia and anywhere else there’s a loose dime.
It is these same oligarchs who control the Fed, and thus Obama and the Congress, who have stolen 8% of the wealth of America’s household income since 2008, and $10.8 trillion at last count in 2013 from America’s savers , the latter having lost $10.8 Trillion in savings property stolen via ZIRP and QE. And that is a low ball figure, of course, because it’s based on the financiers’ self-serving rate of inflation, i.e., devaluation of the dollar.
We have become Cyprus and .gov has become the EU officially now.
He is the biggest joke we could have imagined.
Putin respond by freezing assets of any caddie that service Ogolfer, making his life unbereable, until Vitoria, Vitoria Nulland, came in and suggest to contract the Academi professionals to serve as caddies. All turn out rosy for everyone. Peace and Golf are what the World and USA want. Even Academi.
Oligarchs helped Obama with his punishment list but no oligarchs, none of the key world power oligarchs operating in Russia, are on the list.
“Jonathan Winer told Robert Friedman (when Winer was still the State Department's crime expert), 'There is not a major Russian organized crime figure whom we are tracking who does not also carry an Israeli passport.'" --Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America (review)
Just don't call them Gaydamak: Meet Israel's Russian oligarchs | Haaretz | 02.07.13
More than a handful of Russia's richest men have made their way to Israel in recent years, but most keep their ties to the Jewish State out of the limelight for fear of antagonizing the Russian authorities or hurting their business interests.
By Asher Schechter
In the past decade, wealthy businessmen from the former Soviet Union have flocked to Israel in private planes via the Moscow-Tel Aviv route. Once here, they buy mansions in wealthy communities and get around in luxury cars. Most of them have come to Israel to escape the grasp of Russian President Vladimir Putin. They live below the radar, zealously guarding their privacy and hiding their assets and...
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http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/.premium-1.533382
The Top Ten Russian Oligarchs listed by Forbes in July 2004:
http://www.forbes.com/2004/07/21/cz_pkl_0721russianintro.html
Putin: “Lord, it was great to be rid for a while of Oleg Deripaska*, the multibillionaire ‘aluminum czar’ of Russia.”
Yanukovich : “Yeah, the last I heard of him, he was meeting in the U.S. with Goldman-Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein – you know, that outfit that controls the US and the EU.”
*Reference: Who Was Robert Levinson Working For?: A spy story with all the bells and whistles: money-laundering, organized crime, and "rogue" CIA agents | Justin Raimondo, December 16, 2013
“…the efforts of Levinson’s family and friends to discover his whereabouts and secure his release have employed the assistance of some of the world’s most dubious characters, whose dubiousness is all of the same color. The New York Times reports they enlisted Boris J. Birshstein, a Russian organized crime figure who had fled to Israel and then on to Canada. In 1995, Birshstein reportedly set up a week-long "summit" for big time Russian Mafia chiefs in Tel Aviv. Another major player in this campaign: Oleg Deripaska, the "aluminum czar" of Russia whose organized crime contacts have kept him from entering the United States – except for two visits in 2009, which the FBI allowed in exchange for his alleged help in locating Levinson. Deripaska wanted a deal whereby he would aid the effort on Levinson’s behalf in exchange for being allowed to enter the US. During his 2009 visit, Deripaska took the opportunity to meet with Goldman-Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, but in the end the State Department prevailed over the Justice Department and Deripaska remains persona non grata in the US.
“The Deipaska-Birshstein-Mafia connection failed to bring any results: no one knew whether Levinson was dead or alive. However, in 2010, Silverman received an email with a video of Levinson, and another one later with a picture of Levinson dressed in the orange garb of a prisoner. …”
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/12/15/who-was-robert-levinson-working-for/
The "Russian" mob is of course as Jewish as the oligarchs, not that you'll ever read about what is common knowledge in Russia itself here.
The Raimondo article is great - what there likely is seems to be a network of Jews/Zionists acting within intelligence agencies, for Israel, just as the Office of Special Plans was explicitly set up within the Pentagon by people who had worked for Netanyahu - patently absurd to have this new department making end runs around the CIA, DIA and others, and particularly given the fact the staff was overwhelmingly zionist dual citizen jews like Feith and Wurmser.
The US really has a substantial problem with Zionist infiltration. Apart from the "raw data" Israel gets from the NSA {info they likely had built backdoor access into anyway} and the constant theft of US tech, they mean to lie us into another needless war.
There's nothing else for it - to let hundreds of thousands die, or root out the bankers and zionists.
But people would rather a million foreign kids die than dare suggest there is and has been dangerous jewish/zionist networks which have infiltrated most levels of the US intelligence and political apparatus - the fact of which is pretty obvious to anyone who spends, honestly, any time looking into open source info on the rich history of Israeli spying and the role of sayanim.
And its the same deal in Britain and France and elsewhere. And they are largely {but of course not solely} behind the Ukraine putsch.
Henry Ford was right. And because people are too chickenshit to address it, we will have more wars and hundreds of thousands will suffer.
Needlessly.
Hard hitting truth! And from a number of major events that have caused tightening of security and surveillance on Americans from 9/11 to the Boston bombing, shouldn’t there be revelations of why Israeli agents were involved?
Here’s just one item from RT:
"The investigation into Monday’s deadly bombing at the Boston Marathon has officially gone international: law enforcement officials from Israel have been sent to the United States to assist in the probe.
"Israel Police Chief Yohanan Danino says he has dispatched officials to Boston, Massachusetts, where they will meet with Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and other authorities, the Times of Israel Reports." (April 27, 2013)
http://rt.com/usa/police-israel-investigation-boston-009/
However, angirfan.blogspot points out that “Just before the Boston Bombings, Israeli Police Chief Yohanan Danino had organised to send Israeli officers to Boston.
Says angirfan: “According to RT, ‘Israeli law enforcement planned the trip before the bombings.’"
http://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2013/04/boston-patsies.html
And perhaps that is why the motto of Israel’s foreign intelligence service the Mossad translates as "By way of deception you shall make war."
Dont understand why he doesnt lust loose Chewy on Putin. that wookie would kick his ass.
He must of told the seven Russian nationals prior to their accounts and property were frozen, "If you like your American bank accounts, you can keep your bank accounts" If Obama tells you can keep something, it is the kiss of death.
And Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader tweets too: The list of seven people under sanctions is laughable, of course. Obama only made our crooks laugh and encouraged them.
Soon to be followed up by another unscripted interview on "Between Two Teleprompters"
Come to London with your dirty money, the English never give a shit about how dirty it is. And that right there is one of the ironies about the British, it's rude to talk about money, but oh how they love it....
Where Boris? He is suppose to add a lot of colorful and insightful commentary in his broken English. I guess he is affected by time zones.
I will be comment instead of Boris . My English is no worse than his.
So: What is democracy? Democracy - a power of the people. What is American democracy? This is a power of the American people.
What is American democracy in the Crimea?
This is the power of the American people, over the people of Crimea.
Thus, when the United States promoting worldwide model of American democracy, they actually promote U.S. power over other nations.
Why do we even have a Congress if they continue to allow the turd POTUS to act like a king......?
Because in USA one-party regime of power - military police dictatorship.
All power in the U.S. is in the hands of the party of big capital. Everything else is just a theatrical production.
In response to a question from a journalist about how tough the EU's sanctions were in comparison to the US, Baroness Ashton says the EU has taken its decision "based on the best information and work that we've done to establish what we believe is the right approach for the European Union".
Cockney English meaningless babble... sounds as if she's been smoking weed lately.
the word 'idiot' is thrown around a lot - too much, really - but Ashton really is a fucking idiot.
Obama has farted in their general direction, but it was upwind.