Source: U.S. Department of Commerce – BIS

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding five entities to the Entity List. These five entities have been determined by the U.S. Government to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. BIS is taking this action in conjunction with the designations made by the Office of Foreign Asset Controls, Department of the Treasury, under amended Executive Order 13694 This final rule lists these entities on the Entity List under the destination of Russia.

Five entities are added based on activities that are described in Executive Order 13694, Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities, issued by the President on April 1, 2015 and amended on December 29, 2016.

On December 29, 2016, the President issued an Executive Order Taking Additional Steps To Address The National Emergency With Respect To Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities, which amended Executive Order 13694. With this action, the existing authorities have been amended to also allow for the imposition of sanctions on individuals and entities determined to be responsible for tampering, altering, or causing the misappropriation of information with the purpose or effect of interfering with or undermining election processes or institutions. Five entities and four individuals are identified in the Annex of the amended Executive Order and have been added to OFAC’s list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons (SDN List). OFAC also designated an additional two individuals who also were added to the SDN List.

BIS, pursuant to Executive Order 13694, as amended, and in consultation with the Departments of State, Defense, Energy, and the Treasury, has designated the five entities specified in the next three paragraphs.

The Main Intelligence Directorate (a.k.a., the following two aliases: Glavnoe Razvedyvatel’noe Upravlenie; and GRU) is involved in external collection using human intelligence officers and a variety of technical tools, and is designated for tampering, altering, or causing a misappropriation of information with the purpose or effect of interfering with the 2016 U.S. election processes.

The Federal Security Service (FSB), (f.k.a., Esage Lab) a.k.a., Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti, assisted the GRU in conducting the activities described above.

There were also three other entities involved: (1) The Special Technology Center, (a.k.a., STLC, Ltd.) assisted the GRU in conducting signals intelligence operations; (2) Zorsecurity Center (a.k.a., Esage Lab) provided the GRU with technical research and development; and (3) the Autonomous Noncommercial Organization Professional Association of Designers of Data Processing Systems (a.k.a., ANO PO KSI) provided specialized training to the GRU.

With these additions, BIS imposes on these entities a license requirement for exports, reexports, or transfers (in-country) of all items subject to the EAR and a license review policy of presumption of denial. The license requirement applies to any transaction in which items are to be exported, reexported, or transferred (in-country) to any of the entities or in which such entities act as purchaser, intermediate consignee, ultimate consignee, or end-user. In addition, no license exceptions are available for exports, reexports, or transfers (in-country) to the persons being added to the Entity List in this rule. This license requirement implements an appropriate measure within the authority of the EAR to carry out the provisions of EO13694.

This final rule adds the following five entities to the Entity List:

(1) Autonomous Noncommercial Organization Professional Association of Designers of Data Processing Systems, a.k.a., the following one alias:
—ANO PO KSI.
Prospekt Mira D 68, Str 1A, Moscow 129110, Russia; and Dom 3, Lazurnaya Ulitsa, Solnechnogorskiy Raion, Andreyevka, Moscow Region 141551, Russia;
(2) Federal Security Service (FSB),a.k.a., the following one alias:
—Federalnaya Sluzhba Bezopasnosti.
Ulitsa Kuznetskiy Most, Dom 22, Moscow 107031, Russia; and Lubyanskaya Ploschad, Dom 2, Moscow 107031, Russia;
(3) Main Intelligence Directorate, a.k.a., the following three aliases:
—Glavnoe Razvedyvatel’noe Upravlenie;
—GRU; and
—Main Intelligence Department.
Khoroshevskoye Shosse 76, Khodinka, Moscow, Russia; and Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, Frunzenskaya nab., 22/2, Moscow 119160, Russia;
(4) Special Technology Center, a.k.a., the following one alias:
—STC, Ltd.
Gzhatskaya 21 k2, St. Petersburg, Russia; and 21-2 Gzhatskaya Street, St. Petersburg, Russia; and
(5) Zorsecurity Center (f.k.a., Esage Lab), a.k.a., the following one alias:
—TSOR Security.
Luzhnetskaya Embankment 2/4, Building 17, Office 444, Moscow 119270, Russia.

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