The EU has imposed sanctions on nine companies operating in Karachay–Cherkessia, Daghestan, and North Ossetia, as well as their executives. The Council of the EU adopted the decision on Monday as part of a new expansion of its sanctions list targeting Russia’s military-industrial complex.
The EU Council said the enterprises had been included on the list because the Russian authorities classify them as part of the country’s military-industrial complex. According to the decision, the EU Council established this on the basis that employees of these enterprises are eligible for federal subsidies to cover housing costs: which Russia offers to those working in the arms industries. Regarding the executives, the EU Council stated that their work in manufacturing weapons constituted support for Russia’s military-industrial complex.
In Karachay-Cherkessia, the restrictions target the Elia Plant JSC, located in the village of Uchkeken, and Cascade JSC in Cherkessk. Elia manufactures electronic components, while Cascade specialises in the production of measuring and monitoring instruments. The sanctions list includes Abubakir Tambiev, Elia’s general director, and Aslan Dzhankezov, head of Cascade.
Cascade director Aslan Dzhankezov said he had learned about the EU sanctions against him from OС Media. He noted that he is no longer the director of the company, but is ‘on vacation with subsequent dismissal’.
In North Ossetia, the sanctions affect three companies: Magnit (‘Magnet’) JSC, Binom Research and Production Association JSC (which is in the process of bankruptcy in Vladikavkaz), and the Alagir Resistance Plant JSC in Alagir. All three companies manufacture electronic components. The individuals added to the sanctions list are Marat Ezeev, director general of Magnit, Elbrus Tsomaev, head of the Alagir Resistance Plant, and Roman Lapich, external administrator of Binom.
Еzeev, director of Magnit, also told OС Media that he had just learned about the sanctions against him and believed that it would not affect him or his company in any way.
Four companies from Daghestan have also been included in the EU’s new sanctions package: the Caspian Precision Mechanics Plant, Stekloplast (‘Glass and plastic’), Elektrosignal (‘Electric signal’), and the Buinaksk Aggregate Plant.
The Caspian Precision Mechanics Plant specialises in manufacturing navigation, meteorological, geodetic, geophysical, and similar instruments and equipment. Stekloplast manufactures plastic sheets, strips, pipes, and profiles made from other materials.
According to publicly available sources, Elektrosignal is a loss-making enterprise specialising in the manufacture of communications equipment used in switching systems. The Buinaksk Aggregate Plant manufactures spare parts for spacecraft and aircraft.
Three company executives were also added to the sanctions list: Arsenkhan Kurbanov, director of Stekloplast, Dalgat Mirzabekov, director of Elektrosignal, and Nurbutdin Nazhmutdinov, head of the Buinaksk Aggregate Plant.
OC MediaElizaveta Chukharova
The decision adopted on Monday formed part of the largest expansion of the EU sanctions list since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The EU Council announced restrictions against 1,569 individuals and legal entities, including 826 Russian companies and 743 company executives. The measures against organisations include the freezing of assets and a ban on making funds or economic resources available to them. Individuals added to the list are also subject to travel bans in the EU.
The new sanctions have not yet entered into force. This will happen only after the full list is published in the Official Journal of the EU.
In September 2026, the EU also imposed sanctions on Ali Chomaev, head of the Adel children’s camp in Dombai, Karachay–Cherkessia, and the Solnechny Bereg (‘Sunny Beach’) educational centre in Daghestan.
According to the EU, Chomaev was involved in the transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia and their ideological indoctrination.