Australia imposes sanctions on CEOs of RT and Rossiya Segodnya

Several Russian journalists and civil servants fell under the restrictions of Australia,as well as PMC Wagner

The Australian authorities imposed sanctions on eight Russian journalists, as well as a number of government officials and organizations. This was reported in the press service of the Australian Foreign Ministry.

In particular, the sanctions list included Dmitry Kiselev, CEO of the Rossiya Segodnya media group, Alexei Nikolov, CEO of RT, and Sergei Brilev, journalist and presenter of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company (VGTRK).

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The sanctions also affected Alexander Zharov, CEO of the Gazprom-Media holding, Mikhail Leontyev, TV presenter, Yevgeny Poddubny, Alexander Kots and Dmitry Steshin, war correspondents, Alexander Shkolnik, DIRECTOR of the Victory Museum, Alexander Chupriyan, Acting HEAD of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of RUSSIA, Sergey Korolyov, First Deputy Director of the FSB and First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Nikolai Bogdanovsky.

In addition, restrictive measures were introduced against the Russian private military company Wagner and two Belarusian enterprises: the manufacturer of tracked vehicles Minotor-Service and OAO KB RADAR.

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Australia has previously imposed several packages of sanctions against Russia, including personal sanctions. They included President Vladimir Putin , Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

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The list also included businessmen Roman Abramovich, Oleg Deripaska, Viktor Vekselberg, Alisher Usmanov, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, Rossiya Bank Chairman Dmitry Lebedev, Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov, Transneft CEO Nikolai Tokarev, CEO RDIF Kirill Dmitriev and others.

In addition, Australia imposed sanctions against the NWF, the Ministry of Finance, as well as a number of banks, including Sberbank, Gazprombank, VEB.RF, VTB, Russian Agricultural Bank, Alfa-Bank.

Now there are more than 750 Russian citizens and organizations on the Australian sanctions list. The restrictions include the freezing of assets, the persons on the list are prohibited from entering the country.

Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Western countries such as the United States , CANADA and Australia are waging a "war" against Russia in trade, economics, "seizing our property, seizing our money, blocking our financial relations." The Russian Foreign Ministry called the imposed sanctions illegal.