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This is an entity/individual-level designation under the UK's Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 rather than a sectoral trade measure. OFSI's Financial Sanctions Notice dated 20/05/2025 confirms 82 entries were added to the consolidated list on the basis of the FCDO's same-day update to the UK Sanctions List, all subject to an asset freeze and trust services sanctions (restrictions on commercial transactions and investment instruments with the named parties).
Three distinct clusters make up the package per contemporaneous reporting: (1) additional members of the Social Design Agency (SDA) network, a Kremlin-funded information-operations outfit the UK first sanctioned in October 2024 for running disinformation campaigns against Ukraine and the West; (2) around 46 Russian financial-sector entities, including the St Petersburg Currency Exchange (JSC SPCEX), the Petersburg Settlement Center, and the state Deposit Insurance Agency, alongside Russian corporate registrars; (3) shadow-fleet logistics enablers, including a British national alleged to have procured vessels for Russia and two tanker captains. A parallel, separately GTA-logged designation of 18 additional shadow-fleet vessels was announced the same day but is not part of this 82-entry entity/individual notice.
The package was coordinated with the EU's 17th sanctions package against Russia, announced the same day (see 2025-05-20-eu-council-regulation-932-17th-russia-sanctions-package).
and disinformation-network designations onto the core Russia sanctions regime, rather than opening new sectoral fronts.
continues operating and reconstituting under new personnel/entities despite the initial sanctions.
consolidated list; trust and corporate-service providers face direct exposure given the trust-services restriction.
and SDA clusters was not independently verified beyond secondary reporting; OFSI's Annex (image-based in the published PDF) was not machine-readable for this filing.
day should be filed as a separate, related action.