US imposes sanctions on Putin's daughters and Russian officials
The United States imposed sanctions on the two daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the daughter and wife of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
"We will take sanctions against the two daughters of Putin, the wife and daughter of Minister Lavrov, and members of the Russian Security Council," a US official said in a telephone briefing on Wednesday.
The official answered in the affirmative to the journalist's clarifying question whether it was "Maria Butina and Ekaterina Tikhonova".
The White House reported that the United States is imposing sanctions on Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev.
Sanctions were imposed on the wife and daughter of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and members of the Russian Security Council, including former Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, according to a statement issued by the White House Press Service.
"This measure isolates them from the US financial system and freezes all assets they hold in the United States," the statement said.
The United States also confirmed that tomorrow, Thursday, April 7, it will impose a complete ban on a number of large Russian government institutions.
Earlier, a number of Western media published information that Ekaterina Tikhonova, who works at Moscow State University, is the daughter of the head of the Russian state.
Putin himself did not confirm this information, but he did not deny it either.
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