It seems that Western sanctions against Russia will continue as the military operation in Ukraine continues.
Britain announced that it had imposed a new package of sanctions on Moscow that specifically targeted a number of Russian media outlets and journalists.
And British Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss revealed in a statement, Wednesday, that the new package provides for preventing Russian companies from using administrative and advisory services related to accounting and human resources in the United Kingdom, according to her.
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Trace also continued that the measures also include imposing more restrictions on the media and journalists that London considers responsible for providing media coverage for the Russian military operation in Ukraine, including RT and Sputnik.
The statement also pointed to the adoption of a new law obligating social networks, Internet services and companies involved in trading in electronic applications to take measures to delete the contents issued by RT and “Sputnik”.
The British minister also confirmed that London had included 63 names on its blacklist for Russia, including senior officials of the Russian Channel One, the war correspondent of the Russian State Corporation for Television and Radio Broadcasting, Yevgeny Poddubny, the war correspondent of the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” Alexander Coates, the special correspondent of “Komsomolskaya Pravda”. Dmitriy Steshin.
Also on the list were the Russian Government Corporation for Television and Radio Broadcasting, InfoRos, SouthFront and the Strategic Culture Foundation (SCF).
More than 1,600 individuals and entities
It also included Russian Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov, Director General of the State Corporation “Rostec” Sergey Chemezov, Assistant to the Russian President Maxim Oreshkin, who heads the Board of Directors of Channel One, the two heads of the boards of directors of Sofcombank and Otkritier banks Dmitry Gusev and Mikhail Zadornov, and KAMAZ. For the manufacture of freight cars, the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and a number of Russian defense companies.
It included on the blacklist the Irish journalist contracted to RT Brian MacDonald, the director of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Russia Alexander Shkolnik, and a number of members of the Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, bringing the number of Russian sanctioned on Britain’s lists to more than 1,600 individuals and entities.
It is noteworthy that Britain had sought to play a major role in the Western response to the Russian military operation in Ukraine.
It has already imposed hundreds of sanctions, such as asset freezes and travel bans, on billionaires and prominent Russian politicians, including Russian President Vladimir Putin.
