Canada imposed sanctions against Tinkoff, singer Shaman and Nikita Mikhalkov

Canada's new sanctions hit 39 individuals and 25 organizations. Among them are the banks Tinkoff and Tochka, four mobile operators, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Education and Science, their heads, as well as Shaman, Kirkorov, Mikhalkov, Prigozhin and Valeria

CANADA introduced new sanctions against Russian companies and individuals; among those subject to restrictions were Tinkoff Bank and mobile operators MTS, MegaFon and Tele2, as well as payment systems Mir and Yandex Pay. The list is published on the government website.

Also among the organizations on the sanctions list:

Ministry of Culture and Science and Higher Education; Tochka Bank; financial consulting company "M-Finance"; Moscow City Cossack Society; news portals “One Motherland”, “Russian Spring ” and LLC “Readovka”, founder of the portal of the same name; companies whose activities were associated with the Wagner PMC and its HEAD Yevgeny Prigozhin - Africa Political Science, Charter Green Light Moscow, Lakhta Park and Lakhta Plaza; the company SMT-iLogic, which was associated with the Russian drone industry; Besogon LLC (founder - Nikita Mikhalkov, owns the BesogonTV trademark), etc.

Individuals subject to Canadian sanctions:

Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova; Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov; DIRECTOR of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky; Director of the Russian Museum Alla Manilova; Head of the Russian House in the Central African Republic Dmitry Sytyy; Head of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Rostov Region Dmitry Bezrukikh; actor Ivan Okhlobystin; director Nikita Mikhalkov; singer Philip Kirkorov; producer Joseph Prigozhin; singer Valeria (Alla Perfilova); singer Shaman (Yaroslav Dronov); actress Maria Fedoseeva-Shukshina; actor Dmitry Kharatyan; singer Timur Yunusov (Timati); singer Olga Kormukhina; singer Yulia Chicherina; singer Alexander Sklyar; Cossack ataman Viktor Zaplatin; Alexander Kuzin and Dmitry Khodotov, considered employees of Yevgeny Prigozhin; military correspondent Maria Koleda; developer in the field of military radio intelligence (RR) and electronic warfare (EW) Oleg Tsarik and others.

President Vladimir Putin called sanctions against RUSSIA “crazy” and “thoughtless” and noted that they could not have a serious impact on the country.

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Tinkoff Bank said that being sanctioned was “expected” and the organization will do “everything possible” to ensure that “this news goes as unnoticed as possible” for its clients.