"Routine process": Britain and Japan have expanded sanctions against Russia

On the evening of July 4, the British Foreign Office extended restrictions to seven more individuals and legal entities from the Russian Federation.

The daughter of the philosopher and political scientist Alexander Dugin Daria, the deputy chairman of Vnesheconombank and co-founder of the Newsfront media group Mikhail Sinelin, the directors of Newsfront Evgeny Glotov and Yuri Fedin, as well as Alyona Chuguleva and Aelita Mamakova, who are considered by London to be one of the key figures of the SouthFront information site, fell under the restrictions.

Both portals are accused by the British side of "spreading disinformation about the special operation of the Russian Federation" in support of Donbass.

Of the legal entities, the site of the United World International center, registered in Istanbul, was included in the sanctions list.

His actions, the British Foreign Office said, "destabilize Ukraine."

In turn, the Japanese authorities froze the assets of 57 individuals and six companies from Russia.

Among them are Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Grigorenko, cellist, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Sergei Roldugin, head of the military-civil administration of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo and his deputy Kirill Stremousov, head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) Yuri Slyusar, head of "Rosgeology" Sergey Gorkov, and also relatives of Alexei Mordashov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Severstal and PJSC Power Machines.

65 Russian and 25 Belarusian companies fell under export restrictions, according to the website of the Ministry of Finance of Japan.

In particular, the Almaz-Antey aerospace defense concern, PJSC Aviation Complex named after

S.V.

Ilyushin”, Scientific Research Institute “Gradient”, Irkutsk Aviation Plant and Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Plant.

Yu.A.

Gagarin, Novosibirsk Aviation Plant.

V.P.

Chkalov.

In addition, from September 5, Japan prohibits the provision of a number of services to the Russian Federation, including audit, management consulting and trust services.

In addition, Tokyo, following the Western countries, approved a ban on the import of Russian gold.

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Tokyo and London are continuing a policy that will cause more damage to them than to Moscow, Sergei Tsekov, a member of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs from the Republic of Crimea, believes.

“Their logic of action is that sanctions have not achieved the desired effect, so additional ones need to be introduced.

These restrictions that they impose will suffer more for their own citizens.

They no longer have their former greatness, ”the RT senator said.

According to political scientist Yuri Svetov, the introduction by the countries of the collective West of ever new anti-Russian sanctions has become a routine process.

“We can say that no one pays attention to these lists anymore.

Well, they came up with it, well, they turned it on.

We can say that the sanctions list of these countries includes the entire population of Russia, except for some of the people who are sitting in Vilnius and somewhere else and call themselves “good Russians,” he emphasized in a conversation with RT.

The deputy head of the economic committee of the Federation Council, Senator from the Amur Region Ivan Abramov believes that Moscow should give a mirror response to Japanese sanctions against both Tokyo and Japanese companies.

Meanwhile, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, Denis Manturov, in a commentary to RIA Novosti, noted that the sanctions imposed since the end of February only brought “inconvenience” to Russia, hitting the “authors” of the restrictions much harder.

“It is a pity that the sanctions affected suppliers of imported industrial products, with whom close ties have been established for decades.

But the loss of the Russian market in fact turned out to be a serious test for them too.

This can be seen in record-breaking inflation and rising prices for commodities in unfriendly countries.

The process of “sobering up” Western partners is already underway - for example, they equate Russian fertilizers with essential goods in order to prevent disruption of their supplies, ”he stressed.