Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1789 of 5 September 2025 implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 concerning restrictive measures against serious human rights violations and abuses

• CELEX: Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1789
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Article 1

Annex I to Council Regulation (EU) 2020/1998 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

Schedules & Appendices

ANNEX

ANNEX

In Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2020/1998, the following entries are added to the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies under heading ‘A. Natural persons’:

Names (Transliteration into Latin script)

Names

Identifying information

Reasons for listing

Date of listing

‘134.

Vadim Viktorovich BULGAKOV

a.k.a.

Vadym Viktorovych BULHAKOV

Вадим Викторович БУЛГАКОВ

(Russian spelling)

Position: Head of the Directorate of the Russian Federal Penal Enforcement Service for the “Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol”

DOB: 30.1.1969

POB: Simferopol, Ukraine

Nationality: Ukrainian, Russian

Tax ID Ukraine (ДРФО): 2523214611

Tax ID Russia (ИНН): 910218275068

Gender: male

Address: Simferopol, Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine

Associated individuals: Arkady Alexandrovich Gostev, Director of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service Aleksei Nikolaevich Pikin, Deputy Head of the Directorate of the Russian Federal Penal Enforcement Service for the “Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol”

Since November 2014, Vadim Bulgakov is the Head of the Directorate of the Russian Federal Penal Enforcement Service for the “Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol”. He holds sole authority over the Directorate’s activities and, as such, bears personal responsibility for, among other things, the proper provision of medical services to detainees and prisoners in Crimea. In this capacity, he is accountable for the widespread and systematic denial of adequate medical care and treatment to detainees and prisoners, in particular political prisoners. This amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Since his appointment as Head of the Directorate in 2014, widespread and systematic human rights violations in Crimean detention centres have been documented by the United Nations and the European Court of Human Rights. In particular, the administrative practice of ill-treatment and denial of medical care to political prisoners, which constitutes an act of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, has repeatedly occurred at the Simferopol detention centre in Crimea since his appointment. He is, in particular, responsible for the ill-treatment of human rights defenders Iryna Danylovych and Amet Suleymanov, who were denied proper medical care for several months during their imprisonment in the Simferopol detention centre.

Therefore, Vadim Bulgakov is responsible for serious human rights violations or abuses, namely cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in particular in relation to political prisoners held in detention centres in Crimea.

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135.

Aleksei Nikolaevich PIKIN

a.k.a.

Alexey Nikolaevich PIKIN

Алексей Николаевич ПИКИН

(Russian spelling)

Position: Deputy Head of the Directorate of the Russian Federal Penal Enforcement Service for the “Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol”

DOB: 9.8.1975

Nationality: Russian

Gender: male

Address: Voronezh, Voronezh Region, Russia

Associated individuals: Arkady Alexandrovich Gostev, Director of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service Vadim Viktorovich Bulgakov, Head of the Directorate of the Russian Federal Penal Enforcement Service for the “Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol”

Aleksei Pikin is the Deputy Head of the Directorate of the Russian Federal Penal Enforcement Service for the “Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol” since May 2016. Within that structure, he holds responsibility for the management and coordination of the regional penal system in Crimea and Sevastopol, including staff conduct, inmate welfare, and the prevention of law violations within detention facilities. Given this mandate, he bears responsibility for any human rights violations committed against individuals sentenced to imprisonment in Crimea, including abuses by staff, unlawful disciplinary measures, or failure to prevent torture, mistreatment, or denial of basic rights within the penal system. He is accountable for widespread and systematic denial of adequate medical care and treatment provision to detainees and prisoners, in particular political prisoners. This amounts to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

Since his appointment as Deputy Head in 2016, widespread and systematic human rights violations in Crimean detention centres have been documented by the United Nations and the European Court of Human Rights. In particular, the administrative practice of ill-treatment and denial of medical care to political prisoners, which constitutes an act of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment, has repeatedly occurred under his authority at the Simferopol detention centre in Crimea since his appointment. He is, in particular, responsible for the ill-treatment of human rights defenders Iryna Danylovych and Amet Suleymanov, who were denied proper medical care for several months during their imprisonment in the Simferopol detention centre.

Therefore, Aleksei Pikin is responsible for serious human rights violations or abuses, namely cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, in particular in relation to political prisoners held in detention centres in Crimea.

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