The United Kingdom has expanded the sanctions list against Russia, according to the website of the government of the kingdom. According to the information, relatives of the Kremlin head Vladimir Putin, his ex-wife Lyudmila Ochertnaya, as well as the chairman of the National Media Group, Alina Kabaeva, have been placed under restrictions. Kabaeva's grandmother Anna Zatseplina was also subject to restrictions.

Documents released Friday by the British government note that in addition to his ex-wife and Kabaeva, the Russian president's cousin Igor Putin, his son Roman Putin and his cousin Mikhail Putin have been placed under sanctions.

Also, the sanctions list includes the head of the private pension fund Gazfond Yuri Shamalov, member of the Board of Directors of SOGAZ Mikhail Klishin, General Director of the LLC Gelendzhik Sea Port Vladimir Kolbin.

The new British sanctions also hit Vladimir Kolbin, "the son of Putin's childhood friend and alleged business partner Pyotr Kolbin," the general director of the Gelendzhik Sea Port, and Viktor Khmarin, a St. Petersburg lawyer and businessman who is related to Putin through his wife and, as the media reported, a fellow student of his.