Canada has imposed sanctions on 33 individuals and 44 legal entities from Russia.
According to the Canadian government’s website, the sanctions list was updated on February 21. This was probably done on the 3rd anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which took place on February 24, 2022.
Canada’s sanctions list includes the Russian Aerospace Forces and the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces, the Artek children’s camp in Crimea and a charitable foundation named after Akhmat-Hadji Kadyrov.
The sanctions have affected officials. Anna Tsivileva, Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, and her husband Sergey Tsivilev, Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, were added to the sanctions list. According to the European Union and investigative journalism, she is a distant relative of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
Among those who were sanctioned, there were media and political strategists considered to be involved in Russian propaganda, such as Ilya Gambashidze, CEO of ANO Dialog, and Vladimir Tabak.
The well-known Russian journalist, Vladimir Pozner, was also included on the list. For the past three years, he and his colleague, Ivan Urgant, had been performing abroad, including in Amsterdam, Berlin and Geneva. Elena Vyalbe, the head of the Russian Ski Sports Association, was also sanctioned by Canada.
