The Council of the European Union (EU) proposed Hungary an alternative list of people from whom anti -Russian sanctions can be removed. Budapest, in exchange for the extension of the EU sanctions against the Russian Federation, demanded to remove restrictions from 8 persons, among whom there could be the oligarchs Alisher Usmanov, Mikhail Friedman and Peter Aven. In response to this, the EU Council set his list - out of four other suction persons.

This was announced by the editor of " According to him, the final decision has not yet been made.

Further discussion will take place at the level of EU ambassadors on Wednesday, March 12. And the validity of existing sanctions expires on March 15.

" - Ed. The counterates of the European Council is to exclude 4 other persons, ”the report said.

Earlier, journalists found out the names of persons that Hungary may be trying to exclude EU sanctions from the list. Among them:.

Thus, Hungary is still blocking the extension of the EU sanctions against Russia. Moreover, in addition to the exclusion of a number of persons from the sanctions list, Budapest achieves guarantees for participation in gas negotiations with Ukraine. The transit of Russian gas has ceased from January 1, 2025. , after the end of the transit contract between Ukraine and Gazprom.

EU sanctions against Russia, we recall, consist of two parts: economic restrictions and a “black list” of individuals and legal entities. Their extension requires unanimous voting of all EU members, and Hungary has repeatedly used this mechanism for negotiations. In January-2025, Hungary has already detained the extension of economic sanctions.

As Euraactiv noted, over the past three years, Budapest has " According to the publication, Hungary could get additional confidence in the success of her plan "