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US blacklists Putin's bankers, advisors, friends
By EUobserver
The US has blacklisted 21 Russians and a bank over the annexation of Crimea. It named three Kremlin officials (Andrei Fursenko, Alexei Gromo, Sergei Ivanov) and four businessmen (Yuri Kovalchuk, Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, Vladimir Yakunin) plus Bank Rossiya. Kovalchuk is said to be Russian leader Vladimir Putin's private banker.