Aug. 5 () –
The Russian Foreign Ministry announced this Friday the imposition of sanctions against a total of 62 Canadian citizens in what is Moscow’s response to a battery of similar measures previously decreed from Ottawa.
The diplomatic portfolio has released a statement in which it names each of those sanctioned and where it has recalled that Canada sanctioned Patriarch Kirill, the highest representative of the Russian Orthodox Church, in a gesture cataloged by Moscow as an “insult”.
For the Ministry, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau applied a series of measures “with the aim of insulting not only the multinational and multi-religious people of Russia, but also Orthodox believers around the world, including Canada.”
Thus, in the list, Moscow has included the Catholic priest Raymond de Souza; the director of public relations for the Canadian Foreign Ministry, Maeva Proteau; the spokesman for said ministry, Adrien Blanchard, and another series of ministerial advisers and senior military commanders, such as the former chief of staff Rick Hillier.
Beyond officials or workers of the Administration, Russia has also announced sanctions against publicists, journalists and political scientists, as well as against the singer Chantal Kreviazuk or the protestant pastor and LGTBI activist, Brent Hawkes.
Canada has already imposed several batteries of sanctions against the Russian economy and has included many people on its ‘black list’ in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Moscow, for its part, has replicated these Ottawa measures.
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