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Document 32025D0969

Council Decision (CFSP) 2025/969 of 20 May 2025 amending Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilising activities

ST/8228/2025/INIT

OJ L, 2025/969, 21.5.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025/969/oj (BG, ES, CS, DA, DE, ET, EL, EN, FR, GA, HR, IT, LV, LT, HU, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SK, SL, FI, SV)

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ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025/969/oj

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2025/969

21.5.2025

COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2025/969

of 20 May 2025

amending Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilising activities

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on European Union, and in particular Article 29 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy,

Whereas:

(1)

On 8 October 2024, the Council adopted Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 (1).

(2)

On the basis of a review of Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643, the Council considers that the identifying information and the statement of reasons in the entry for one natural person in the list of natural and legal persons, entities and bodies set out in the Annex to Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 should be amended.

(3)

Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The Annex to Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 20 May 2025.

For the Council

The President

K. KALLAS


(1)  Council Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643 of 8 October 2024 concerning restrictive measures in view of Russia’s destabilising activities (OJ L, 2024/2643, 9.10.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/2643/oj).


ANNEX

In the Annex to Decision (CFSP) 2024/2643, under the heading ‘A. Natural persons’, the following entry is replaced:

 

Name

Identifying information

Statement of Reasons

Date of listing

‘14.

Anatolii PRIZENKO

Businessman

DOB: 26.11.1974

POB: Moldovan SSR (now Republic of Moldova)

Nationality: Moldovan

Gender: male

Anatolii Prizenko is a businessman in the Republic of Moldova. In late October 2023, he coordinated the dispatch of several citizens of the Republic of Moldova to France, where they painted the Star of David on the streets in exchange for financial compensation. That operation was widely reported by the media and had a significant destabilising effect in the context of the conflict between Israel and Hamas following the attacks on 7 October 2023. Images of that operation were first spread by the Recent Reliable News media network, which is associated with the Government of the Russian Federation and used by Russian actors to conduct disinformation campaigns.

Anatolii Prizenko publicly took responsibility for his role as the organiser of that operation. According to media reports, that destabilising operation was carried out for the benefit of the Russian military intelligence service, the GRU, and aimed at fuelling tensions in French society.

Therefore, Anatolii Prizenko is responsible for, implementing, supporting or benefiting from actions or policies of the Government of the Russian Federation which undermine or threaten stability in a Member State and, therefore, in the Union by planning, directing, or engaging in, directly or indirectly, the use of coordinated information manipulation and interference.

16.12.2024’


ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025/969/oj

ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition)


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