Canada enlarges list of sanctions against Russia, Ukraine

World August 06, 2014, 19:21

The new list names 19 individuals and 22 organisations, including banks

OTTAWA, August 06. /ITAR-TASS/. Canada on Wednesday enlarged the list of sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian companies and individuals.

The new list names 19 individuals and 22 organisations, including banks.

Canada on 25 July announced further sanctions against Russian companies and officials from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics.  

The sanctions will also apply to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DNR and LNR, respectively) and their eight representatives: DNR Deputy Prime Minister Vladimir Antyufeyev; LNR Prime Minister Marat Bashirov; DNR Prime Minister Alexander Borodai; LNR Foreign Minister Yuri Ivakin; DNR Deputy Prime Minister for Sociel Affairs Alexander Kalyussky; LNR Supreme Council Chairman Aleksei Karyakin; DNR Information and Mass Communications Minister Alexander Khryakov; and LNR Deputy Prime Minister Vasily Nikitin.

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