UKSL Sanctions designation

Aleksei Viktorovich PIMANOV

Individual · designated 21 April 2022

Designation identifiers

UKSL unique ID
RUS1347
OFSI group ID
15298
Designation type
Individual
Date designated
21 April 2022
Last updated
9 April 2025

Regimes

  • The Russia (Sanctions) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Designation sources

  • UK

Sanctions imposed

  • Asset freeze
  • Travel Ban
  • Trust Services Sanctions
  • Director Disqualification Sanction

Official reasons

  • Aleksei Viktotovich PIMANOV is a prominent Russian media personality and businessman. He is the head of the media holding company Kresnaya Zvezda, owned by the Russian Ministry of Defence. PIMANOV also directed the 2017 Russian film ‘Crimea’ which glorified the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. As such he is or has been involved in providing support for and/or promoting any policy or action which destabilises Ukraine or undermines or threatens the territorial integrity, sovereignty or independence of Ukraine. The trust services sanctions were imposed on 21/03/2023.

Other information

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

Addresses

  • Lines: 126 pr-kt Mira
  • Lines: Moscow
  • Postcode: 129164
  • Country: Russia
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