US House of Representatives passes bill about sanctions against 200 Russians

Today, the House of Representatives passed Representative Tom Malinowski's CORRUPT Act, a bill that presses the Biden administration to impose sanctions on nearly 200 Russian officials and other leading figures identified by anti-corruption activists as critical supporters of the Putin regime and his war against Ukraine, Report informs, citing the website of the initiative's author, congressman Tom Malinowski.

The legislative act contains an annex with a list of Russians who are to be sanctioned, including Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov, deputy head of the presidential administration Magomedsalam Magomedov, Russian president's aide Vladimir Medinsky, Central Election Commission Chair Ella Pamfilova, Accounts Chamber head Alexey Kurdin, Central Bank chief Elvira Nabiullina, First Deputy Prime Minister Andrey Belousov, deputy prime ministers Viktoria Abramchenko, Tatyana Golikova and Alexander Novak, a number of ministers, as well as Russian Supreme Court Chairman Vyacheslav Lebedev and Constitutional Court Chairman Valery Zorkin.

The document also lists Aeroflot Director General Sergey Alexandrovsky, Russian Post head Maxim Akimov, Roscosmos Director General Yury Borisov, and Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev, heads of several Russian universities and the spiritual leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Kirill, entrepreneurs Roman Abramovich and Yevgeny Kaspersky, businessman and designer Artemy Lebedev, Channel One Director Konstantin Ernst, RT television head Margarita Simonyan, journalist Vladimir Solovyev, and news anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva.

Among the Russian celebrities mentioned in the document are actors Marat Basharov, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Mikhail Porechenkov, Ivan Okhlobystin, actress Yana Poplavskaya, filmmakers Nikita Mikhalkov and Karen Shakhnazarov, conductor Valery Gergiev, singers Nikolay Baskov, Filipp Kirkorov, Oleg Gazmanov, and Nikolay Rastorguev.