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242:(Univest-M) owned major companies involved in importing raw petroleum from Russia and exporting the finished goods to the EU and Ukraine. In 2012, after the EU imposed sanctions on Chyzh and Ternavsky for sponsoring Lukashenko's regime, an Interservis (Интерсервис) company owned by Chyzh's associate
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European Union. In the same month, Switzerland, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Ukraine, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway joined these sanctions.
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774:Financial Sanctions Notice. 21/06/2021. Belarus
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1163:(in Russian) - Reformation, 17 August 2020
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332:. In 2011, Belneftekhim's company
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