Canada targeted 21 Russians today, Vladimir Putin’s entourageand four financial institutions and banks, in a new wave of sanctions due to the invasion of Ukraine.
“We are targeting banks and oligarchs in the Putin regime’s environment, like the one I would call his partner,” Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Jolie told reporters in Ottawa.
Among those targeted by the new sanctions is Alina Kabayeva, a former rhythmic gymnast who allegedly maintained a relationship with President Putin, according to some media outlets and dissidents, which he denied in 2008.
According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, Citing US officials, Alina Kampayeva is described in a US intelligence report as a beneficiary of Vladimir Putin’s estate.
She is “chairman of the board of the National Media Group (NMG), a holding company that holds significant stakes in almost all major Russian federal media outlets that reproduce Russian government propaganda,” according to the European External Action Service.
Canada also added in this list the Russian Agricultural Bank as well as the Investtradebank and two resource management companies. Their assets have been frozen and they have been barred from entering Canada by their superiors.
Melanie Jolie said the sanctions were aimed at “suffocating the Putin regime” and congratulated the EU on Monday for banning most Russian oil imports into its territory by the end of the year to cut off funding for the war. conducted by Moscow in Ukraine.
Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, Canada imposed sanctions on more than 1,050 individuals and entities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
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