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Peter Dickinson: US sanctions Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky

By Peter Dickinson.

Published March 10, 2021. Updated March 10 at 12:43 am

Billionaire oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky listens to a speaker at the 16th annual Yalta European Strategy conference on Sept. 13, 2019, in Kyiv’s Mystetskyi Arsenal.

Photo by Serge Illin/YES

The United States imposed sanctions against Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky on March 5 in a move that underlined American support for Ukraine’s Euro-Atlantic integration and indicated a toughening stance in Washington DC towards the country’s over-powerful oligarch elite.