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US sanctions on Russian oligarchs miss richest of rich

FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, listens to Lebedinsky GOK Managing Director Oleg Mikhailov, left, as businessman and founder of USM Holdings, Alisher Usmanov, right, and Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov stand behind him while visiting the Lebedinsky GOK JSC, in Gubkin, Belgorod Region, Russia, Friday, July 14, 2017. Usmanov is not on the sanctions list implemented in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The metals tycoon was an early investor in Facebook. His fortune is estimated at more than $14 billion. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File) FILE - Former Russian oil giant Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky stands behind bars in a courtroom in Moscow, Monday, May 30, 2005. Khodorkovsky, once believed to be the wealthiest man in Russia, ran afoul of Vladimir Putin when he more fully embraced the free market and began criticizing the vestiges of Soviet central planning. Khodorkovsky was arrested by Russian authorities in 2003 and charged with fraud, money laundering and embezzlement. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze, File) Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of judges of general jurisdiction and arbitration courts of the Russian Federation via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022. (Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov walk past honour guards as they attend a ceremony to receive diplomatic credentials from newly appointed foreign ambassadors at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018. In the wake of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, U.S. sanctions are targeting Putin and a handful of individuals believed to be among his closest security advisers, including Lavrov. (Sergei Karpukhin/Pool Photo via AP, File)