GL-52

Summary

General License No. 52 authorizes U.S. news reporting organizations and individual U.S. journalists (including photojournalists), broadcast, and technical personnel to engage in transactions ordinarily incident and necessary to journalistic activities or the establishment or operation of a news bureau that would otherwise be prohibited by E.O. 14024 or section 1(a)(i) of E.O. 14071. Permitted transactions include compensating support staff, leasing office space, purchasing goods and services, and paying other expenses necessary to journalistic activities. The only permissible involvement of blocked persons is the processing of funds by financial institutions blocked pursuant to E.O. 14024.

Authorized activities

• Compensating support staff (e.g., stringers, translators, interpreters, camera operators, technical experts, freelance producers, or drivers), persons to handle logistics, or other office personnel
• Leasing or renting office space
• Purchasing, leasing, or renting goods and services (e.g., mobile phones and related airtime)
• Paying for all other expenses ordinarily incident and necessary to journalistic activities, including sales or employment taxes

Conditions

The license does not authorize: (1) opening or maintaining correspondent or payable-through accounts for entities subject to Directive 2 under E.O. 14024; (2) any debit to an account on the books of a U.S. financial institution of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the National Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, or the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation; (3) any transactions involving Joint Stock Company Channel One Russia, Joint Stock Company NTV Broadcasting Company, Television Station Russia-1, Limited Liability Company Algoritm, New Eastern Outlook, or Oriental Review, unless separately authorized; or (4) any transactions otherwise prohibited by the RuHSR, including transactions involving any blocked person other than those described in paragraph (a), unless separately authorized.