Today it became known about the expansion of the EU sanctions list. It includes 48 individuals — businessmen, politicians and top managers. Among them are chess player Sergey Karjakin, presenter Yulia Baranovskaya, actor Mikhail Galustyan, as well as Vladislav Lobaev, Chief Designer of the Integration Systems Design Bureau LLC.

The creator of the ultra-long-range sniper rifle believes that there will be no practical effect from the sanctions, because he has never had anything to do with Europe, and it is unlikely that this will happen in the near future.

I don’t have any accounts, real estate or other assets anywhere abroad. And I wasn’t going to travel there either. Except on a tank.

Vyacheslav Lobaev

Chief Designer and founder of Tsar-Pushka and KBIS companies

The gunsmith also noted that his inclusion in the sanctions list once again indicates a high appreciation of his work.

“All my work and my family’s life are focused exclusively on the inside. Of Russia. In fact, this is in the same piggy bank of US sanctions and the “Peacemaker” and is a high assessment of the enemy of our activities and our weapons, which I am sincerely glad of,” Lobayev stressed.

The Lobaev Foundation for the Development of Weapons Technologies and Industries was sanctioned by the United States in February last year. In May 2024, Vyacheslav Lobaev received a high award — the medal of the Order of Merit for Fatherland” II degree for the development and creation of new special equipment, strengthening the country’s defense capability and many years of diligent work. The award was presented to the designer by the presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, Yuri Trutnev.

The Design Bureau of Integration Systems (KBIS) is engaged in the development and production of weapons and cartridges. The company was founded in 2003 in Kaluga. She has a TSVL—8 Stalingrad tactical rifle in her arsenal. It can reach targets at a distance of 1,600 meters and is rightfully considered one of the most accurate in the world. Vyacheslav Lobaev also owns the Tsar Cannon company. Ten years ago, it became the first private company in modern history to obtain a license to manufacture weapons.