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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Pol Allingham

School ‘very sad’ to remove former Russian minister’s children due to sanctions

Ekaterina Ovsiannikova, left, and Alexei Owsjanikow leaving Southwark Crown Court, south London (Lucy North/PA) - (PA Wire)

School staff were “very sad” to ask a former Russian government minister to remove his children after it emerged he was subject to sanctions, a court was told.

Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, 48, the former mayor of Sevastopol in illegally annexed Crimea, is facing seven counts of circumventing sanctions between February 2023 and January 2024.

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