Last Updated: November 27, 2024
Vladimir Stepanovich KARANIK
Aliases
Владимир Степанович КАРАНИК; Уладзімір Сцяпанавіч КАРАНIК; Uladzimir Stsiapanavich KARANIK; Vladimir Stepanovitj KARANIK; Uladzimir Stsiapanavitj KARANIK
Position
Governor of the Grodno/Hrodna Region/Oblast; former Minister of Healthcare
DoB
1973-11-30
Linked to
Official reason
In his former leadership capacity as the Minister of Healthcare, he was responsible for the use of healthcare services to repress peaceful protesters, including using ambulances to transport protesters in need of medical assistance to isolation wards rather than to hospitals. He made numerous public statements criticising the peaceful protests taki...
Other Information
(Date of UN designation: 2020-12-17)
Date of listing
2021-02-26
Program information
Authority
EU
Program
Restrictive measures in view of the situation in Belarus and the involvement of Belarus in the Russian aggression against Ukraine
Regime
EU country specific
Target State
Belarus
Measures
Asset freeze and prohibition to make funds available, Restrictions on admission
Sanctions Portfolio
- All assets of the listed persons and entities should be frozen. It is also prohibited to make any funds or assets directly or indirectly available to them. - Member States shall enforce travel restrictions on persons listed in the Annex of Council Decision 2012/642/CFSP.
Official Information
The EU has imposed several successive rounds of individual and sectoral sanctions, against those responsible for internal repression and human rights abuses in Belarus, and in the context of Belarus’ involvement in Russia’s war against Ukraine. The Council of the EU first adopted targeted restrictive measures against specific Belarusian officials ...
Program URL
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A02012D0642-20220604