.Head of state Vladimir Putin signed a mandate Tuesday momentarily entrusting command of a major canned food manufacturer to the Russian federal government.In April 2023, Putin authorized the government to take the Russia-based resources of overseas providers from nations the Kremlin consider as "antagonistic," a move largely viewed as revenge to the West freezing around $300 billion in Russian state resources.Putin's newest decree orders the seizure of the Glavproduct holding firm, numerous of its subsidiaries and 3 processing plants. The government will additionally take control of Glavproduct's parent business Promselkhozinvest, which is actually possessed by the U.S.-registered Universal Refreshment Company.Universal Refreshment is actually had by Russian-born U.S. business owner Leonid Smirnov, that emigrated from the Soviet Union in the 1970s and went back to Russia in the 1990s, depending on to the Kommersant business daily.The paper described Glavproduct as Russia's leading junk food manufacturer, along with more than 500 companies of canned meat product, compressed milk and also canned fish and also veggies.Temporary federal government command of the seized properties are going to be supervised by Russia's Federal Organization for State Property Administration, Rosimushchestvo, depending on to Putin's mandate.The United States as well as European Union shut out or seized greater than $350 billion of state and also individual resources as portion of Western sanctions over Russia's 2022 attack of Ukraine. EU participant states concurred in May to make use of billions of euros in profits from the icy properties to help arm Ukraine and also finance its post-war reconstruction.