- Programme
- Situation in Ukraine
- Designated
- Not published by this authority
- Legal basis
- Ordinance of 4 March 2022 on measures related to the situation in Ukraine (RS 946.231.176.72), Art. 15 para. 1 and 4 (Financial sanctions) and art. 29 para. 1 (Travel ban), annexe 8
- Stated grounds
- Former Deputy Speaker of the State Duma. On 20 March 2014, he voted in favour of the draft Federal Constitutional Law “on the acceptance into the Russian Federation of the ‘Republic of Crimea’ and the formation within the Russian Federation of new federal subjects – the ‘Republic of Crimea’ and the City of Federal Status Sevastopol”. Former head of the Republic of Dagestan. Former Advisor to the President of the Russian Federation. Chairman of the permanent commission of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Collective Security Treaty Organization on defense and security. Member of the State Duma and leader of the United Russia faction in the State Duma. In that capacity, he participated in the ratification of government decisions on the “Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Russian Federation and the Luhansk People’s Republic”. On 3 October 2022, Vasilyev supported, in the State Duma, the legislation to annex the Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine. Thereby he has actively supported actions and implemented policies which undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, and further destabilised Ukraine.
- Source
- Switzerland SECO Sanctions List
- Last confirmed
- 19 Oct 2026