Rogozin, Dmitry Olegovich
d.o.b. 21.12.1963; in Moscow
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
Publicly called for the annexation of Crimea.

Glazyev, Sergey
d.o.b. 1.1.1961, Zaporozhye, (Ukrainian SSR)
Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation.
Publicly called for the annexation of Crimea.

Matviyenko, Valentina Ivanova
d.o.b. 7.4.1949, Shepetovka, Khmelnitskyi oblast (Ukrainian SSR)
Speaker of the Federation Council. On 1 March 2014, publicly supported in the Federation Council the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.

Naryshkin, Sergei Evgenevich
d.o.b. 27.10.1954,
St Petersburg (former Leningrad)
Speaker of the State Duma. Publicly supported the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine. Publicly supported the Russia-Crimea reunification treaty and the related federal constitutional law.

Kiselyov, Dmitry Konstantinovich
d.o.b. 26.4.1954
Appointed by Presidential Decree on 9 December 2013 Head of the Russian Federal State news agency "Rossiya Segodnya".
Central figure of the government propaganda supporting the deployment of Russian forces in Ukraine.

Nosatov, Alexander Mihailovich
d.o.b. 27.3.1963 Sevastopol, (Ukrainian SSR)
Deputy-Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Rear-Admiral
Responsible for commanding Russian forces that have occupied Ukrainian sovereign territory.

Kulikov, Valery Vladimirovich
d.o.b. 1.9.1956, Zaporozhye, (Ukrainian SSR)
Deputy-Commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Rear Admiral
Responsible for commanding Russian forces that have occupied Ukrainian sovereign territory.

Surkov, Vladislav Yurievich
d.o.b. 21.9.1964, Solntsevo, Lipetsk
Aide to the President of the Russian Federation. He was an organiser of the process in Crimea by which local Crimean communities were mobilised to stage actions undermining the Ukrainian authorities in Crimea.

Mikhail Malyshev
Chair of the Crimea Electoral Commission
Responsible for administering the Crimean referendum. Responsible under the Russian system for signing referendum results.

Valery Medvedev
Chair of Sevastopol Electoral Commission
Responsible for administering the Crimean referendum. Responsible under the Russian system for signing referendum results.

Lt. Gen. Igor Turchenyuk
Commander of the Russian forces in Crimea
The de-facto Commander of Russian troops deployed on the ground in Crimea (whom Russia continues to refer to officially as "local self-defence militias").

Elena Borisovna Mizulina
Deputy in the State Duma
Originator and co-sponsor of recent legislative proposals in Russia that would have allowed regions of other countries to join Russia without their central authorities’ prior agreement.