China News Service, April 1 (Xinhua) According to comprehensive foreign media reports, on March 31, local time, the U.S. Treasury Department announced sanctions on Russian technology and cyber-related entities and individuals, including freezing all assets in the United States.
Russia's largest chipmaker, the Joint Stock Company Mikron, was added to the sanctions list.
According to Reuters, the U.S. Treasury Department said the sanctions targeted Russia’s tech industry, sanctions-evading networks, and so-called “malicious cyber actors.”
Agence France-Presse reported that the sanctions involved 21 entities and 13 individuals, including Russia's largest chipmaker Joint Stock Company Mikron, software and communications technology company AO NII-Vektor and computer company T-Platform Wait.
In addition, Kate Bedingfield, director of the White House Communications Office, said at a briefing on the same day that the U.S. Department of Commerce will add 120 Russian and Belarusian entities to its "sanctioned entity list" in the next few days to combat Russian defense, aerospace and the strength of the maritime sector.
Bedingfield noted that without a license, entities on the list would no longer have access to cutting-edge U.S. technology, and the vast majority would not be able to obtain a license.