Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies

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| products = Electronics, radios, communication equipment, electronic countermeasures, medical equipment

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Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies (CRET) ({{langx|ru|Концерн Радиоэлектронные технологии}}, КРЭТ (KRET)) is a holding company within the Russian state-owned Rostec group{{Cite web |title=Назаров Александр Юрьевич и Игорь Анатольевич Шумаков подписали соглашение |url=http://www.kremlinrus.ru/article/1077/131953/ |access-date=2023-06-04 |website=www.kremlinrus.ru}} that develops and manufactures military specialized radio-electronic, state identification, aviation and radio-electronic equipment, multi-purpose measuring devices, detachable electrical connectors and a variety of civil products.{{cite web|title=JSC Concern Radio-Electronic technologies: Private Company Information|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=183945438|website=Bloomberg|accessdate=20 May 2017}}

The Corporate Group has developed one of the two existing state radiolocation identification systems.

Structure

Companies of the holding:{{cite web|title=Предприятия|url=http://kret.com/about/companies/|website=Kret.com|accessdate=20 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008192520/http://kret.com/about/companies/|archive-date=8 October 2018|url-status=dead}}

History

On July 16, 2014, the Obama administration imposed sanctions through the US Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) by adding Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies and other entities to the Specially Designated Nationals List (SDN) in retaliation for the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, annexation of the Crimean Peninsula by the Kremlin, and the Russian interference in Ukraine.{{cite web |url=https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/OFAC-Enforcement/Pages/20140716.aspx |title=Ukraine-related Sanctions; Publication of Executive Order 13662 Sectoral Sanctions Identifications List |publisher= treasury.gov |date= 16 July 2014 }}{{cite web |url=https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/jl2572.aspx |title=Announcement of Treasury Sanctions on Entities Within the Financial Services and Energy Sectors of Russia, Against Arms or Related Materiel Entities, and those Undermining Ukraine's Sovereignty |publisher= treasury.gov |date= 16 July 2014 }} Despite that, in 2020 KRET participated in a Russian medical aid delivery during the coronavirus pandemic in New York. Delivering its medical equipment like very need ventilators to the US, with reports claiming that the Russian aid was partly paid by the US and the RDIF. Officials from the US administration replied that sanctions aren't applied for medical supply.{{cite news |title=Russian ventilators sent to U.S. made by firm under U.S. sanctions: Russia newspaper |newspaper=Reuters |date=3 April 2020 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-russia-usa-sanctio/russian-ventilators-shipped-to-u-s-made-by-firm-under-u-s-sanctions-rbc-idUSKBN21L243 |accessdate=27 April 2020}}

Communications Equipment for Russian Forces

United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation of KRET/Rostec is producing fifth-generation Rostec R-168-5UN-2 Military-Transceiver. The VHF band radio with GPS data transmit ability and a digital crypto system and an output power of 8 Watt.

Sanctions

On June 18, 2021, Ukraine added the concern to the sanctions list.{{Cite web |title=УКАЗ ПРЕЗИДЕНТА УКРАЇНИ №266/2021 Про рішення Ради національної безпеки і оборони України від 18 червня 2021 року «Про застосування персональних спеціальних економічних та інших обмежувальних заходів (санкцій)» |url=https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/2662021-39265 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219103657/https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/2662021-39265 |archive-date=2022-12-19 |access-date=2025-03-30 |language=uk}}

On December 16, 2022, Concern Radio-Electronic Technologies was added to the EU sanctions lists as a developer and manufacturer of military-grade electronic products, bearing responsibility for material or financial support for actions that undermined or threatened the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine.{{Cite web |date=2022-12-20 |title=Новые евросанкции: запрет Минцифры, Роскомнадзора и поставок электроники |url=https://russianelectronics.ru/novye-evrosankczii-zapret-minczifry-roskomnadzora-i-postavok-elektroniki/ |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=russianelectronics.ru |language=ru}}

The concern is also on the sanctions list of New Zealand.{{Cite web |last=Trade |first=New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and |title=Russia Sanctions |url=https://www.mfat.govt.nz/en/countries-and-regions/europe/ukraine/russian-invasion-of-ukraine/sanctions |access-date=2025-03-30 |website=New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade |language=en-NZ}}

References

External links

[https://kret.ru/ Official website]

Category:Technology companies of Russia

Category:Defence companies of Russia

Category:manufacturing companies based in Moscow

Category:Russian entities subject to U.S. Department of the Treasury sanctions