SANCTION - YURI RYAZANOV

Did you know.....Yuri Viktorovich Ryazanov (Russian: Ю́рий Ви́кторович Ряза́нов; born September 24, 1970) is a Russian businessman and politician.

He is a member of the Federal Council of the all-Russian political party Party of Action and the Vice President of Novoe Sodruzhestvo. He is a member of the board of directors of Rostselmash, Empils and Buhler Industries.

In 1992, he was a co-founder of CJSC Production Association Commonwealth. In conjunction with Konstantin Babkin and Dmitry Udras withdrew Empils (1998) and Rostselmash (2000) plants from the crisis of the 1990s.

Since the brink of failure in the 1990s, these days Rostselmash has been enjoying a revival. ... Rostselmash now sells to more than 35 countries and opened its first office in (Germany) last year.

When Vladimir Putin gathered his advisers for a meeting on the development of regional industry earlier this year, they met at Rostselmash.

— The Economist, 11 August 2018.

Since 2005, he has been Vice President of CJSC Novoe Sodruzhestvo (Russian: Промышленный Союз "Новое Содружество"), uniting 20 enterprises located in Rostov Oblast, Moscow, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Canada and the United States.

Political career
He is one of the founders of the all-Russian political party Party of Action. In 2010 he became a member of the Federal Council of the party.

He is known for sharp criticism of Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization over the terms of Russia's membership.