{"id":1255062,"date":"2025-07-02T19:48:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/trump-lifts-sanctions-on-assad-associates-russian-firms-and-banks\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T19:48:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T16:48:37","slug":"trump-lifts-sanctions-on-assad-associates-russian-firms-and-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/trump-lifts-sanctions-on-assad-associates-russian-firms-and-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump lifts sanctions on Assad associates, Russian firms and banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>US President Donald Trump, along with lifting sanctions against Syria, also removed some Russian banks, institutions, and individuals from the &#8220;blacklists&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/ofac.treasury.gov\/recent-actions\/20250630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">was reported<\/a> by the US Treasury Department.<\/p>\n<p> A release from the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury Department notes that the former president of the International Chess Federation, former head of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, has been excluded from the sanctions.<\/p>\n<p> In 2015, he was accused of supporting the regime of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. At that time, Ilyumzhinov&#8217;s assets in the United States were frozen. Ilyumzhinov himself stated that the United States imposed sanctions on him because of his visits to Syria.<\/p>\n<p> Some Russian companies, from which the US lifted sanctions, were also under Syrian sanctions.<\/p>\n<p> This is the Russian Financial Alliance bank, which belonged to Ilyumzhinov.<\/p>\n<p> Also removed from the &#8220;black list&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Tempbank&#8221;;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Mir Business Bank&#8221; is a Russian legal entity of the Iranian Bank Melli Iran;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> state enterprise RFK-Bank;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Russian Federal State Enterprise &#8220;Promsir&#8217;eimport&#8221;;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> the only state intermediary in the Russian Federation for arms trade, Rosoboronexport;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;Global concepts of groups&#8221;;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Global Vision Group;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> &#8220;STG Logistics&#8221;;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li> Maritime Assistance.<\/li>\n<p><\/ul>\n<p> The New York Times previously reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/pauza-v-sanktsiiakh-trampa-dozvoliaie-rosii-popovniuvaty-viyskovyy-biudzhet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump&#8217;s reluctance to impose new sanctions against Russia is helping it increase its military budget<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump, along with lifting sanctions against Syria, also removed some Russian banks, institutions, and individuals from the &#8220;blacklists&#8221;. This was reported by the US Treasury Department. A release from the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Treasury Department notes that the former president of the International Chess Federation, former head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":1251899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76872,76892],"class_list":["post-1255062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-feed","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1255062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1251899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1255062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1255062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}