Anonymous ID: db2d78 March 24, 2021, 2:23 p.m. No.13290882   🗄️.is đź”—kun

Canada sanctions nine Russian officials over Navalny

 

OTTAWA, March 24. /TASS/. The Canadian government has introduced sanctions against nine Russian officials over the situation around blogger Alexey Navalny, a statement by the Canadian Foreign Minister Marc Garneau [the astronaut?] reads.

 

The sanctions list includes Russia’s FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov, First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Administration of Russia Sergei Kiriyenko, Director of the National Guard Viktor Zolotov, Chief of the Presidential Domestic Policy Directorate Andrei Yarin, Deputy Defense Ministers Alexei Krivoruchko and Pavel Popov, head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Kalashnikov and Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, and Plenipotentiary Representative of the Russian President in the Siberian Federal District Sergei Menyailo.

 

The sanctions are "part of a concerted diplomatic effort to bring pressure on senior figures in Russia’s administration" in response to the incident with Alexey Navalny, the statement notes. "These actions are in line with measures previously taken by the European Union and the United States," the announcement says.

 

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