The Canadian Foreign Office has imposed new sanctions against Russia. It is reported on the official website government.
Thus, two Russians and four companies fell under the restrictions. The sanctions list includes the general manager of the transport company “Grand Service Express” (the operator of railway communication with the Crimea) Alexander Ganov, the general manager of Mostotrest Leonid Ryzhenkin, as well as the companies of JSC Lenpromtransproekt, JSC Direction of the construction of the Berkakit railway? -Tommot? -Yakutsk “, Federal State Unitary Enterprise” Crimean Railway “and” First Crimean Insurance Company “.
Canada deplored the “serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law” in Crimea. Ottawa supports Ukraine and its people, who “continue to resolutely defend their rights against aggressive Russian actions,” Foreign Minister Mark Garneau said in a statement.
On March 24, Canada imposed sanctions on nine Russian officials in the Alexei Navalny case (founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, registered by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations exercising the functions of foreign agent)… The sanctions list includes Russian FSB director Alexander Bortnikov, FSIN chief Alexander Kalashnikov, Attorney General Igor Krasnov, Deputy Defense Ministers Pavel Popov and Alexei Krivoruchko, Head of Internal Policy Department of the Kremlin Andrei Yarin, the director of the Russian guard Viktor Zolotov and others.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said relations with Canada have reached an all-time low. According to the official representative of the ministry, Maria Zakharova, this position does not coincide with Canadian national interests and “deprives the country’s foreign policy not only of independence, but also of its emphasis on multilateral diplomacy”. Russia is open to honest dialogue, but will respond firmly to hostile actions.
Crimea became part of Russia in March 2014 after a referendum in which the majority of locals who voted supported such a decision. Ukraine, EU countries and the United States refused to recognize the results of the vote, calling the reunification of the peninsula with mainland Russia an annexation. The Russian authorities reject these allegations and insist that the accession procedure was in accordance with international law.
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