“If you answer the question about some effect from these sanctions, then, of course, you should not expect it.
It is difficult to take this seriously, because the inclusion in the sanctions list of high-tech companies from Russia will not have any impact either on them or on the Russian side, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
Stepanov called the new anti-Russian sanctions "another gesture of empty symbolism of the Trudeau cabinet" and said that the Russian side would respond to Canada's corresponding unfriendly gesture.
Earlier it became known that the Canadian side is introducing a ban on the export to Russia of a number of advanced technologies, including quantum computers and industrial equipment.
Also under the new Canadian restrictions were six individuals and 46 legal entities from Russia.
In addition, Canada, in agreement with the United States, Great Britain and Japan, has imposed a ban on the import of a number of gold goods from Russia.