Latest E.U. Sanctions Get Personal With Putin’s Daughters and Confidantes.

Plenty of high-profile names have been added Friday to the European Union’s checklist of sanctioned people as a part of the bloc’s fifth package deal of measures in opposition to Russia, none extra private for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia than his personal daughters.

The daughters, Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Putina, who has been residing underneath an assumed identify, Maria Vorontsova, have been among the many dozens of recent people focused with asset freezes and journey bans by the European Union.

Mr. Putin has historically been extraordinarily secretive about his daughters, barely mentioning their names and providing no particulars about their lives in public. At the very least one of many girls has up to now lived within the Netherlands.

The brand new E.U. sanctions included outstanding figures in Mr. Putin’s shut setting, together with some who’ve been linked to him for many years.

Amongst them is Herman Gref, one of the trusted technocrats in Mr. Putin’s financial coverage workforce. He was the architect of Mr. Putin’s financial reforms throughout his first tenure as president, serving to to set the stage for an financial increase in Russia that abruptly ended with the 2008 international recession.

For the previous 15 years, Mr. Gref, who met Mr. Putin within the Nineteen Nineties in St. Petersburg, has been the chief government of Sberbank, Russia’s greatest monetary establishment. Sberbank has not been sanctioned by the European Union, in distinction to a number of different main banks.

One other outstanding identify on the brand new E.U. checklist is Boris Rotenberg, who can hint his relationship with Mr. Putin to a lot earlier instances.

Within the Sixties, he practiced judo in the identical faculty with the long run president. Following Mr. Putin’s accession to the Kremlin, Mr. Rotenberg, collectively together with his brother Arkady, cobbled collectively a pipeline building empire, profitable profitable contracts from Gazprom, Russia’s pure gasoline large.