Canada, following Britain, imposed sanctions against Patriarch Kirill

In addition to the patriarch, under sanctionshit the HEAD of Roskomnadzor Andrey Lipov,TV presenter Ekaterina Andreeva and former head of Yandex Tigran Khudaverdyan Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill

CANADA has added Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' to the sanctions list, according to the government website.

RBC turned to the synodal department for the relationship of the church with society and the media for a comment.

In addition to the patriarch, Canadian sanctions included:

www. former head of Yandex Tigran Khudaverdyan; head of Roskomnadzor Andrey Lipov and his deputies Vladimir Logunov, Oleg Terlyakov, Vadim Subbotin and Milos Wagner; columnist for MIA "Russia Today" Petr Akopov; TV presenter of the program "Time" on Channel One Ekaterina Andreeva.

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In addition, Canada has introduced restrictive measures against Roskomnadzor itself and the Regnum news agency.

In mid-June, Great Britain imposed sanctions against Patriarch Kirill for "clear support of Russian military aggression in Ukraine". After the start of the special operation, the patriarch touched upon the topic of hostilities in several of his sermons. He also stated that Russia never attacked other countries, but "only defended its borders."

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The ROC called the UK sanctions "absurd and futile attempts" to intimidate the patriarch or force him to renounce his beliefs. And the Foreign Ministry said that London took such a step because of "helplessness" and "fear", based on "the absence of real values ​​and morality." “They no longer understand how infernal it sounds to include an Orthodox patriarch on their blacklist,” said department spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.

At the same time, Patriarch Kirill did not fall under EU sanctions. Lithuania proposed to include it in the sanctions list, but it was not possible to agree on the measure: as BLOOMBERG reported, Hungary opposed it.