Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1081 of 26 May 2025 implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/1485 concerning restrictive measures in view of the situation in Russia

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1081
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Article 1

Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2024/1485 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

In Annex IV to Regulation (EU) 2024/1485, in section ‘A. Natural persons’ entries number 11 and 18 are replaced by the following:

Name

Identifying information

Statement of Reasons

Date of listing

‘11.

Kirill Sergeevich NIKIFOROV

(Кирилл Сергеевич НИКИФОРОВ)

Position: Judge of the Regional Court of Vladimir Oblast

Former judge of the Kovrov City Court of Vladimir Oblast

DOB: 14.3.1992

Nationality: Russian

Gender: male

Kirill Sergeevich Nikiforov was a judge of the Kovrov City Court of Vladimir Oblast.

As from 2022, he was directly involved in creating and maintaining torturous conditions for Alexei Navalny through repeatedly rejecting Alexei Navalny’s claims against the IK-6 penal colony regarding his treatment, where he was serving a 12-year sentence imposed as a result of politically motivated prosecution.

Therefore, Kirill Sergeevich Nikiforov is responsible for serious human rights violations in Russia, including torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, arbitrary detentions, and the systematic violation of freedom of opinion and expression.

He remains active in the judicial system in Russia and in December 2024 he was promoted to the position of judge of the Regional Court of Vladimir Oblast.

27.5.2024

18.

Oksana Vasilyevna DEMYASHEVA

(Оксана Васильевна ДЕМЯШЕВА)

Position: Deputy Chairperson of the Kalininsky District Court of Saint Petersburg

Former judge of the Vasileostrovsky District Court of Saint Petersburg

DOB: 10.3.1980

Nationality: Russian

Gender: female

In her former position as judge of the Vasileostrovsky District Court of Saint Petersburg, Oksana Vasilyevna Demyasheva sentenced Alexandra Skochilenko, an artist, to seven years in prison on politically-motivated charges for spreading so-called “fake news” about the Russian army. Skochilenko was arrested for replacing price tags at a supermarket with anti-war stickers. She became one of the first people charged under the newly passed criminal law outlawing so-called “fake news” about the Russian army, her trial attracting wide public attention for the unprecedented pressure Skochilenko faced from the jail administration, the judge, and the prosecution.

Therefore, Oksana Vasilyevna Demyasheva is responsible for serious human rights violations in Russia by violating freedom of opinion and expression.

She remains active in the judicial system in Russia and in June 2024 was appointed to the position of deputy chairperson of the Kalininsky District Court of Saint Petersburg.

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