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Boris Georgievich YANOVSKY

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Boris Georgievich YANOVSKY is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Boris Georgievich YANOVSKY · Boris Georgievitsj Janovskiy · Boris Georgievič JANOVSKIJ · Boris Georgijevitj JANOVSKIJ · Boris Georgijevič Janovskij · 8 more...				[sources]
Other name	Boris Georgiyevich Yanovsky · Boris Janowski · Ianovskii Boris · Борис Георгиевич ЯНОВСКИЙ · Борис Георгиевич Яновский · 4 more...				[sources]
Birth date	1968-10-25				[sources]
Place of birth	Moscou · Moscou : RUSSIE · Moscow · Moscow, RUSSIAN FEDERATION · Moscow, Russian Federation				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Russia				[sources]
Country	Russia				[sources]
Citizenship	Russia · Soviet Union				[sources]
Country of birth	Russia				[sources]
First name	Boris · Boris Georgievich · Борис				[sources]
Last name	JANOVSKIJ · Janowski · YANOVSKY · Yanovsky · ЯНОВСКИЙ				[sources]
Middle name	Georgievich · Georgievič · Georgijevitj · Георгиевич				[sources]
Patronymic	Georgievich · Георгиевич				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q4538198				[sources]
Position	Directeur de production de la chaîne de télévision Zvezda · Directeur de production de la chaîne de télévision Zvezda. · Executive Producer of the Zvezda TV channel · Propagandists · Пропагандисты				[sources]
Source link	gels-avoirs.dgtresor.gouv.fr				[sources]
Last change	2025-01-25	Last processed	2025-02-21	First seen	2023-02-15

Descriptions

Associated individual: Aleksei Viktorovich Pimanov

— Belgian Financial Sanctions, 2024-03-28

Boris Yanovsky is a propagandist and the general producer of TV Zvezda. As the general producer, Yanovsky is responsible for the production and promotion of content for TV Zvezda, which regularly spreads disinformation regarding Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine and provides crucial media support for Kremlin policy. As general producer of TV Zvezda, he is involved in spreading disinformation concerning Ukrainians being Nazis and preparing biological and chemical bombs to be used against Russians. For his activities, Yanovsky was personally awarded the medal “For Strengthening the Combat Commonwealth”. Therefore, Boris Yanovsky is responsible for supporting and implementing actions and policies which undermine and threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2024-08-23

Associated individuals: Aleksei Viktorovich Pimanov

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2023-06-28

Function: Executive Producer of the Zvezda TV channel

— Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes, 2023-06-28

Associated individual: Aleksei Viktorovich Pimanov

— EU Financial Sanctions Files (FSF), 2024-03-28

Associated individual: Aleksei Viktorovich Pimanov

— EU Consolidated Travel Bans, 2024-03-28

Boris Yanovsky est un propagandiste et le producteur général de TV Zvezda. En tant que producteur général, Yanovsky est responsable de la production et de la promotion du contenu de TV Zvezda, qui diffuse régulièrement de la désinformation concernant la guerre d’agression en cours menée par la Russie contre l’Ukraine et apporte un soutien médiatique essentiel à la politique du Kremlin. En tant que producteur général de TV Zvezda, il est impliqué dans la propagation de désinformations selon lesquelles les Ukrainiens seraient des nazis et prépareraient des bombes biologiques et chimiques destinées à être utilisées contre les Russes. Pour ses activités, Yanovsky a reçu personnellement la médaille "Pour le renforcement de la coopération militaire". Par conséquent, Boris Yanovsky est responsable de soutenir et de mettre en œuvre des actions et des politiques qui compromettent et menacent l’intégrité territoriale, la souveraineté et l’indépendance de l’Ukraine.

— French National Asset Freezing System, 2023-06-26

Personnes étroitement associées: Aleksei Viktorovich Pimanov

— Monaco National Fund Freezing List, 2024-08-14

Russian propagandist: General producer of Zvezda TV

— ACF List of War Enablers non-official source, 2023-02-15

Russian actor

— Wikidata non-official source, 2025-01-05

Relationships

Sanctions
Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Federal Public Service Finance	UKR	2023-06-23	-
Directorate‑General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union	UKR	2023-06-23	-
State Secretariat for Economic Affairs	Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), annexes 2, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,13, 14, 14a, 15, 15a, 15b, 25 and 33	2023-06-28	-
Council of the European Union	-	-	-
National Security and Defense Council	23/2023	2023-01-15	2033-01-15
Direction Générale du Trésor	(UE) 2023/1216 du 23/06/2023 (UE Ukraine intégrité territoriale - R (UE) 269/2014)	-	-
Council of the European Union	-	-	-
Council of the European Union	-	-	-
La Principauté de Monaco	-	-	-

Data sources

French National Asset Freezing System5,353

The register lists all persons, entities and vessels subject to asset freezing measures in force on French territory, pursuant to national, European and international (UN) provisions.

France · DGT

Belgian Financial Sanctions6,606

Belgium extends the European FSF sanctions list on the basis of a national terrorist list, issued by the National Security Council

Belgium · FOD

EU Consolidated Travel Bans4,170

Consolidated information about individuals who have been banned from traveling to the European Union, released as part of the EU Sanctions Map.

European Union · Council

Swiss SECO Sanctions/Embargoes8,723

Switzerland manages a sanctions lists with a high degree of detail on the individuals that are subject to it's embargoes

Switzerland · SECO

EU Financial Sanctions Files (FSF)6,662

As part of the Common Foreign Security Policy the European Union publishes a sanctions list that is implemented by all member states.

European Union · DG FISMA

Ukraine NSDC State Register of Sanctions18,092

List of individuals and legal entities subject to restrictive measures.

Ukraine · NSDC

Monaco National Fund Freezing List5,313

A list of entities subject to fund and economic resource freezing procedures

Monaco · Monaco

ACF List of War Enablers8,041

A list of Russian decision-makers from government and business composed by ACF/FBK, the anti-corruption organization founded by Alexei Navalny

Russia · ACF · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata389,523

Wikidata is the structured data project of the Wikipedia community, providing fact-based information edited by humans and machines

External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

Source data IDs: ch-seco-63347 · acf-ba49b526c64f5540e6da2eefa4bf6812c51e1fec · eu-tb-logical-154498 · mc-freezes-71c2d2c73b78df56a2c125b00a4e5c566ca63017 · eu-fsf-eu-10305-56 · NK-JMS8njeGQEmhLRNr5ME5TC · ua-nsdc-20111-anovskij-boris-georgijovic · acf-a30a3c6edffebbb765bf7b669342aa560e047b58 · ua-nazk-person-2228 · ua-nabc-person-2228-yanovsky-boris-georgievich · fr-ga-6711

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