Canada imposes sanctions on Putin's ex-wife, Chubais and Yeltsin's daughter

The Canadian government has imposed sanctions against RUSSIA, with 77 individuals, 39 legal entities and 201 vessels affected. This was reported by the country's government press service.

Personal sanctions, which prohibit entry to CANADA and involve freezing assets in the country, affected the former wife of Russian President Vladimir Putin Lyudmila Ocheretnaya, her husband Artur Ocheretny, the Russian leader's cousins ​​Mikhail Putin and Mikhail Shelomov, the president's classmate, businessman Viktor Khmarin, Vladimir Kolbin (whom the EU called the son of the president's childhood friend Pyotr Kolbin), the rector of the St. Petersburg Mining University Vladimir Litvinenko, and the former executive DIRECTOR of the Nord Stream AG operator Matthias Warnig.

The lists also include the former HEAD of Rusnano Anatoly Chubais, artistic director of the Mariinsky and director of the Bolshoi Theater Valery Gergiev, former head coach of the Russian national rhythmic gymnastics team Irina Viner, founder and co-owner of AFK Sistema Vladimir Yevtushenkov, executive director of the IMF from Russia Ksenia Yudaeva, president of the InfoWatch group of companies and co-founder of Kaspersky Lab Natalya Kasperskaya, founder of the strategic consulting agency K2 and former press secretary of the Nashi movement Kristina Potupchik.

Also subject to restrictions were Deputy Defense Minister Pavel Fradkov (son of former Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov), businessman Artem Chaika (son of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the North Caucasus Yuri Chaika), the daughter of the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin Tatyana Yumasheva and her husband Valentin Yumashev, who headed the presidential administration in 1997-1998 and was appointed as Putin's advisor on a voluntary basis in 2018.

In addition, measures have been introduced against the former head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry (in 2017-2019) Karin Kneissl, who now lives in the Ryazan region. The sanctions list also includes businessmen Alexander Mamut, Vladimir Lisin, Viktor Kharitonin, Iskander Makhmudov, the president of the Russian Football Union and the chairman of the board of Gazprom Neft Alexander Dyukov. In addition, the sanctions include Moscow deputy mayors Anastasia Rakova, Maxim Liksutov, Alexander Gorbenko and Natalya Sergunina.

Canada is also tightening sanctions against Surgutneftegaz, introducing measures against three financial institutions (their names are not given on the government website) and against 15 individuals and organizations that Ottawa believes are linked to the Russian shadow fleet.

The new import restrictions apply to coal, metals and a number of other goods, the supply of which abroad "brings Russia income." EXPORT restrictions are also being introduced on advanced dual-use technologies.

Earlier in the day, the UK announced measures against Russia , including the Ministry of Defence's Deep Sea Research Directorate. The Russian embassy in London said the new sanctions have "no impact on the Russian economy, much less politics" and "harm only the prestige and economic well-being of the United Kingdom itself." The diplomats noted that the sanctions list also includes two British nationals and a company undergoing liquidation in British jurisdiction.

Russia considers the sanctions illegal and demands that they be lifted.

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