US Adds 71 Russian, Belarusian Companies To Its Sanctions List

The US Department of Commerce has published a blacklist including 71 legal entities from Russia and Belarus, including several aircraft makers and shipbuilders.

Among other companies, the list now includes the Ilyushin Aviation Complex, the Yakovlev Design Bureau, the Rubin Central Design Bureau for Marine Engineering, the Malakhit Marine Engineering Bureau and the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau.

Gazpromneft Shelf and the Russian Defense Ministry’s Main Directorate of Deep-Water Research were blacklisted as well.

The blacklisted companies will de-facto have no access to US technologies and software, even if products that use them are produced by third countries.