Andrei Guriev is one of Russia’s oligarchs on the EU’s new sanctions list. He is the head of the company “Phosagro”, whose management is Irina Bokova.
The list of the names of the newly sanctioned more than 160 people has already been published in the Official Journal of the EU. Among them are 14 Russian oligarchs and members of their families, as well as 146 senators who voted to ratify the treaties of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between Russia and the so-called Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.
Andrey Guriev is the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Phosagro – the largest producer of phosphate fertilizers in Europe, the world’s largest producer of high quality phosphate rock and the world’s second largest producer of monoammonium and diammonium phosphate. As the company is largely affiliated with the Kremlin, the revenues it generates are an important source of revenue for the government.
At the beginning of 2018, Irina Bokova, former Secretary General of UNESCO and former Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bulgaria, was elected to the Board of Directors of Phosagro. Bokova was also a candidate for UN Secretary General in 2016. A check of the Phosagro website shows that in the summer of 2021 Irina Bokova was in the management of the company.
Among the oligarchs included in the new list are also Mikhail Oseevsky – chairman of Russia’s largest digital service provider Rostelecom, Mikhail Poluboyarinov – CEO of Aeroflot, Vladimir Kirienko – CEO of the social platform “In touch” and son of former Prime Minister Sergei Kiriyenko.
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