Russia bans 62 Canadians from entering the country
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The Russian Foreign Ministry announced the entry into office of 62 citizens of Canada. As explained in the department, the decision was made in response to the expansion of Canada on June 27 and July 7 of the anti-Russian islands, which affected “journalists and experts, as well as Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia” in this section.
The department added that when compiling this list of “closed people”, their (the list of persons involved) “malicious activity in the fight against the Russkiy Mir” was taken into account and their features were taken into account.
As the Russian Foreign Ministry added, retaliatory measures in Russia will be announced in the near future.
We remind you that on July 8, the Canadian government expanded restrictions against Russia due to its special military operation in Ukraine and introduced an appeal against 29 individuals and 15 legal entities from the Russian Federation. In this list, in particular, there was Patriarch Kirill (Vladimir Gundyaev), journalist Ekaterina Andreeva.
The news agency Regnum, Roskomnadzor, Channel One, Rossiya-1, Rossiya-24, NTV, TASS, VGTRK, Gazprom-Media, National Media Group, Look, and Vesti were banned. ru, Russia Today, Sputnik. Roskomnadzor and Rossotrudnichestvo are also included in this list.
In addition, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova, the former head of Yandex Tigrandaverdyan, fell under the restrictions.