EU lifts sanctions against Deripaska's cousin and business partner
Photo: Oleg Deripaska / EPA

European Union removes oligarch's cousin and business partner from sanctions list Oleg Deripaska – Pavlo Yezubov. About writes The official journal of the EU.

The Moscow Times writes the court in Luxembourg ruled to lift the EU sanctions against Yezubov in November 2024. At the same time, the UK sanctions against him remain in effect.

Mr. Yezubov is the son of Alexei Yezubov, a member of the Russian State Duma. He owns a portion of Deripaska's assets in insurance, media, development, hotel business and the agricultural sector.

He controls the Rospechat kiosk chain, has an agro-industrial company called Agrozemproduct and hotel and development assets in the Kuban. Yezubov also owns the Austrian hotel Aurelio Lech Ski Hotel, which until 2022 belonged to Deripaska, and was the director of the California recording studio Ocean Studios Burbank.

Recently, the EU has been gradually lifting sanctions on some Russian businessmen.

In March 2025, the restrictions were lifted for the former head of Eurochem, Vladimir Rashevsky, Alisher Usmanov's sister Gulbahor Ismailova, Acron owner Vyacheslav Kantor, and Russian Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev.

In previous years, sanctions were also lifted against oligarchs Grigory Berezkin and Arkady Volozh, and the UK removed Oleg Tinkov, co-owner of Tinkoff Bank, from the list.

In the United States, sanctions were lifted this year for Karina Rotenberg, the wife of Putin's associate Boris Rotenberg.