Last Updated: January 19, 2026

Pavel Anatolievich Popov

Position

Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation

Nationality

Russia

DoB

1957-01-01

Official reason

Pavel Popov is the Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation. In this capacity, he has overall responsibility for research activities. This includes the oversight and development of the Ministry’s scientific and technical capabilities, including the development of potential weapons, and modernisation of existing weapons a...

Other Information

The Director Disqualification Sanction was imposed on 09/04/2025.

Date of listing

2021-01-04

Program information

Authority

UK

Program

The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Regime

UK horizontal

Target State

Chemical Weapons

Measures

Asset freeze and making available provisions, Travel bans

Sanctions Portfolio

• The Regulations impose financial sanctions through a targeted asset freeze on designated persons and prohibitions on making funds or economic resources available. This involves the freezing of funds and economic resources (non-monetary assets, such as property or vehicles) of designated persons and ensuring that funds and economic resources are n...

Official Information

The Chemical Weapons (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 came fully into force on 31 December 2020. They put in place measures to ensure the UK can operate an effective sanctions regime in relation to the use and proliferation of chemical weapons. This sanctions regime is aimed at deterring the proliferation and use of chemical weapons. This in...

Additional Details

Licensing and exception provisions are contained in Part 5 of the Regulations.

Program URL

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/618