Canada has imposed sanctions against the publications Izvestia and Parlamentskaya Gazeta, as well as the REN TV channel, according to a message on the website of the country’s Foreign Ministry.
In addition to them, Ottawa’s new restrictions included: the Center for Social-Conservative Policy (it was created on the initiative of the current Russian Ambassador to Belarus Boris Gryzlov in 2005, it deals with analytics in the field of socio-economic development); Institute of State and Law RAS; the Russia Beyond project, which tells about Russia in foreign languages (it was launched by Rossiyskaya Gazeta, then it was transferred to the management of ANO TV-Novosti, which manages the RT television channel); singer Jasmine (real name Sarah Shor, her husband Ilan Shor is the leader of a pro-Russian party banned in Moldova); ex-head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Igor Ivanov (1998–2004); Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council Ivan Timofeev; historian and author of a new textbook on this discipline for schoolchildren Alexander Chubaryan; Associate Professor of the Faculty of Public Administration of Moscow State University Alexander Konkov; Advisor to the Minister of Defense Andrei Ilnitsky; political scientist, journalist, HSE teacher Dmitry Suslov; Dean of the Faculty of International Relations of MGIMO Andrey Sushentsov; MGIMO professor Oleg Barabanov.
Now almost 1.4 thousand people and almost 500 organizations are under Canadian sanctions against Russia.
Source: Rosbalt
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