Canada will expand sanctions against a number of industries in the energy and industrial production of the Russian Federation
Canada plans to expand previously imposed sanctions against a number of industries in the energy and industrial production of Russia. It is reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country, writes RIA News.
The ministry noted that the changes will affect the oil, gas and chemical sectors. Restrictions will also apply to industrial production in these areas.
The agency added that after the introduction of restrictions, Canadian businesses will have 60 days to complete contracts with affected industries.
These new sanctions will apply to land and pipeline transport, the production of metals, vehicles, computers, electronic, electrical and machinery equipment.
Canadian sanctions against Russia
On July 8, Canada imposed sanctions against Roskomnadzor, Russian TV channels and journalists. The list includes, in particular, Channel One, NTV, VGTRK and its channels Rossiya 1 and Rossiya 24, as well as news agencies TASS, RT, Sputnik, Regnum.
In addition, sanctions were imposed against Roskomnadzor and Rossotrudnichestvo, the Gazprom-Media company, and the National Media Group holding. Together with them, the list included the online platform “Looking” and the website of the “Vesti” program.
Another sanction list included 30 persons, including Oleg Dobrodeev, general director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, Vladimir Sungorkin, general director of Komsomolskaya Pravda Publishing House JSC, and Sergey Mikhailov, general director of TASS. The list also included journalists Armen Gasparyan, Artem Sheinin, Olga Skabeeva, actor and TV presenter Tigran Keosayan, host Ekaterina Andreeva, RT broadcast director Anton Krasovsky and other media representatives.
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In addition, Canada included the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill in the sanctions lists. Vladimir Gundyaev was among the “Russian agents of disinformation who are responsible for providing and supporting Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine.”
In addition to the patriarch, restrictions were introduced against the deputy head of Roskomnadzor Milos Wagner, RT broadcasting director Anton Krasovsky, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, and the writer Zakhar (Evgeny) Prilepin.
In June, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also announced sanctions against Russia.
The new measures, which come in addition to the strong Canadian government sanctions already in place, include imposing restrictions on six individuals and 46 entities associated with the Russian defense sector.
Then, 15 Ukrainians supporting the actions of Moscow, 13 individuals and two legal entities from Belarus also fell under the sanctions.
In addition, the country imposed a ban on the export to Russia of a number of advanced technologies, including quantum computers and industrial equipment.
Russia’s reaction
The Russian Embassy in Ottawa called Canada’s new sanctions against Moscow rude. The diplomatic department promised that the Russian side would give an answer to them.
The embassy said the new restrictions confirm “the impotence of official Ottawa.” It is noted that the sanctions against journalists demonstrate that the Canadian authorities are unwilling and “afraid to hear the truth about the situation in Ukraine and around it.”
Such blatant censorship and restrictions on freedom of speech once again underline the totalitarian essence of Canadian quasi-democracy.
The embassy added that the inclusion of Patriarch Kirill on the sanctions list is an unprecedented and blasphemous act. The diplomatic department believes that after such a step, Ottawa “does not have the moral right to be considered a country where the rights of all faiths are respected.”
Russia’s response to such rudeness and obscurantism will be adequate and will not take long
Olga Kovitidi, a member of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, in turn, called the sanctions that Canada imposed on Russia manifestations of political weakness.
The senator believes that the anti-Russian hysteria that has swept Europe destroys the principle of universalism in international relations, which underlies the UN system. In her opinion, this could lead to irreparable international consequences.
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