A number of high-profile names were added to the European Union’s list of sanctioned individuals on Friday as part of the bloc’s fifth package of measures against Russia, no more personal to Russia’s President Vladimir V. Putin than his own daughters.
The daughters, Katerina Tikhonova and Maria Putina, who were living under an assumed name, Maria Vorontsova, were among dozens of new individuals targeted by asset freezes and travel bans by the European Union.
Mr Putin has traditionally been extremely secretive about his daughters, barely mentioning their names and giving no details about their lives publicly. At least one of the women has lived in the Netherlands in the past.
The new EU sanctions involved prominent figures close to Mr Putin, including some who have been associated with him for decades.
Among them is Herman Gref, one of the most trusted technocrats on Mr Putin’s economic policy team. He was the architect of Mr Putin’s economic reforms during his first term as president, helping to pave the way for an economic boom in Russia that ended abruptly with the global recession of 2008.
For the past 15 years, Mr. Gref, who met Mr. Putin in the 1990s in St. Petersburg, has been the director of Sberbank, Russia’s largest financial institution. Sberbank is not sanctioned by the European Union, unlike several other major banks.
Another prominent name on the new EU list is Boris Rotenberg, who can trace his relationship with Mr Putin to much earlier times.
In the 1960s, he practiced judo at the same school with the future president. After Mr. Putin’s entry into the Kremlin, Mr. Rotenberg, along with his brother Arkady, cobbled together a pipeline empire, winning lucrative contracts from Gazprom, the Russian natural gas giant.
