Canada imposed sanctions against the Ministry of Defense of Belarus and Ivan Eismont

The Canadian authorities have expanded sanctions against Belarus and added nine individuals and seven legal entities to the sanctions list. This was reported on the website of the Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The sanctions list includes:

Chairman of the National State Television and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus (Belteleradiocompany) Ivan Eismont; Oleg Karazey, HEAD of the Prevention Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus; holding "BelOMO"; Defense Initiatives LLC; JSC "2566 plant for the repair of electronic weapons"; ATE - Engineering; Charitable Foundation of Alexei Talai.

Sanctions were also imposed against judge Elena Litvina, activist Aleksey Talai, commander of the 116th Guards Attack Air Base Alexander Krivets, and chairman of the Grodno Regional Executive Committee Vladimir Karanik. They included Anna Pushkareva (the publication Nasha Niva, which is recognized as extremist in Belarus, calls her a business partner of the former manager of the President Viktor Sheiman), Sheiman's son and daughter Sergey and Olga Sheimans.

The expansion of sanctions is timed to coincide with the third anniversary of the presidential elections, after which mass protests began in Belarus. Ottawa is expanding restrictions "in response to the ongoing gross and systematic human rights violations taking place in Belarus," the report said.

Sanctions are being imposed against those responsible for the country's support for RUSSIA's actions in Ukraine , the Foreign Ministry added.

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Mass protests in Belarus began after the presidential elections on August 9, 2020, which, according to the authorities, was won by the incumbent head of state ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO . The protests turned into clashes between citizens and law enforcement forces; to suppress the actions, the security forces used stun grenades, rubber bullets, and special equipment.

Western countries did not recognize the election results and Lukashenka's victory and imposed sanctions against MINSK. The president himself has repeatedly stated that the protests were organized from abroad.