Canada imposed sanctions against Deripaska, Murashko and Ernst

The new package of sanctions also includes restrictions on Vladimir Solovyov and Margarita Simonyan Konstantin Ernst

Canada has introduced a new package of sanctions against Russia, according to the website of the country's government.

Restrictive measures affected:

officials, politicians, deputies:

press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov; Minister of Agriculture Dmitry Patrushev; Minister of Health of Russia Mikhail Murashko; Chairman of the State Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov;

employees of the media and leading state channels:

TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov; editor-in-chief of RT Margarita Simonyan; Director General of Channel One Konstantin Ernst;

businessmen:

Oleg Deripaska;

and also:

Viktor Gavrilov and Dmitry Ivanov.

The head of the French Ministry of Finance announced the discussion of new EU sanctions against Russia Politics

At the end of February, Canada closed its airspace to Russian airlines. The Canadian government has also banned Russian ships and fishing boats from entering its ports or inland waters.

Canadian banks were banned from conducting any transactions with the Central Bank of Russia in order to prevent Moscow from "using its international foreign exchange reserves." Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the country intends to stop the supply of crude oil from Russia.

On Monday, March 7, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said that EU finance ministers are discussing strengthening sanctions against Russia. According to him, the issue of expanding restrictions could be discussed at a summit of EU heads of state chaired by French President Emmanuel Macron.

The EU adopted the first package of sanctions against Russia on February 23. Then 351 State Duma deputies fell under the restrictions.

Soon the EU imposed sanctions against Russia's defense, financial and space sectors. The list includes Alfa-Bank, Otkritie, Rossiya Bank and Promsvyazbank, the Ministry of Defense, SVR, Russian Railways, KamAZ, Sovcomflot, Sukhoi, Irkut, Tupolev, USC, and the Rocket and Space Center "Progress".

The third package of restrictions contained sanctions against President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev and Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev. In addition, the EU has closed airspace for Russia.