{"id":95533,"date":"2025-10-08T08:48:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disinfo.md\/the-kremlin-threatens-after-its-assets-are-frozen-in-the-west-how-will-foreign-citizens-on-russian-territory-be-affected\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T08:48:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T05:48:38","slug":"the-kremlin-threatens-after-its-assets-are-frozen-in-the-west-how-will-foreign-citizens-on-russian-territory-be-affected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disinfo.md\/en\/the-kremlin-threatens-after-its-assets-are-frozen-in-the-west-how-will-foreign-citizens-on-russian-territory-be-affected\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kremlin threatens after its assets are frozen in the West. 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Peskov thus responded to a question about the reprivatization of some assets in Russia after they had been nationalized and whether this is Moscow&#8217;s response to the freezing of Russian assets in the West and to the Europeans&#8217; plans for confiscation and even transfer of these assets to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, if there will be implementation of plans for illegal confiscation of assets and Russian properties, Russia will defend its interests and will use all available legal tools,&#8221; added the spokesperson of the Russian president, according to Agerpres.<\/p>\n<h2>Russia nationalizes companies<\/h2>\n<p>Since the war in Ukraine began in 2022, Russia has nationalized over a hundred companies, many with foreign shareholders, such as Shell, Danone or ExxonMobil, others belonging to Russian citizens.<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;Russia has a sufficient arsenal of countermeasures and capabilities for an adequate political and economic response&#8221; if its frozen assets in the West are confiscated, warned the Russian Foreign Ministry last week, referring to the European Commission&#8217;s plan to offer Ukraine a loan of 140 billion euros financed from the assets frozen as a result of sanctions imposed on Russia and which Kiev should only repay after Moscow would pay &#8220;war reparations&#8221;, and until then the Russian assets from which this loan is paid to be replaced with bonds guaranteed by EU states.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Details, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.antena3.ro\/externe\/kremlinul-ameninta-dupa-inghetarea-activelor-sale-in-occident-cum-vor-fi-afectati-cetatenii-straini-de-pe-teritoriul-rus-762270.html\">HERE<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow confirmed on Tuesday that it is responding to sanctions and the freezing of Russian assets in the West by confiscating and nationalizing the companies and assets of foreign citizens on Russian territory. &#8220;These measures have been taken in the context of the hostile climate that has been created around Russia and other hostile actions,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135],"tags":[9180,11337,11338,11339,8953,1146,8940],"class_list":{"0":"post-95533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-foreign-affairs-en","7":"tag-west","8":"tag-active","9":"tag-foreign-citizens","10":"tag-freeze","11":"tag-kremlin-en-2","12":"tag-rusia-en","13":"tag-threat"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Kremlin threatens after its assets are frozen in the West. 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