Canadian Foreign Ministry announced the country's plans to expand sanctions against Russia Sanctions

will affect the oil, gas and chemical sectors of the Russian industry.Canadian companies will need to close existing contracts with Russian enterprises within 60 days Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly

The Canadian authorities will strengthen sanctions against the oil, gas and chemical sectors of the Russian industry, the country's Foreign Ministry said.

“Canada will expand the measures in place for the oil, gas and chemical sectors to include industrial production. <...> These new sanctions will apply to land and pipeline transport, the production of metals, vehicles, computers, electronic, electrical and machinery equipment, ”the ministry said in a statement.

Canadian businesses will have to close contracts with Russian businesses in these areas within 60 days.

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Canada, like other Western countries, began to tighten sanctions against RUSSIA since the end of February, when Moscow launched a special operation in Ukraine. The last time the country expanded them was on July 8, when the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, the former HEAD of Yandex Tigran Khudaverdyan, the head of Roskomnadzor Andrey Lipov and his deputies Vladimir Logunov, Oleg Terlyakov, Vadim Subbotin and Milos Wagner, as well as Russian journalists, including Ekaterina Andreeva, host of the Vremya program on Channel One. Roskomnadzor and the news agency Regnum were also sanctioned.

Ottawa has already imposed restrictions against the Russian oil and gas and chemical industries. Canada refused to return to Moscow a Siemens turbine for the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which remained in the country after repairs. it is also forbidden to import luxury goods from Russia, including alcoholic beverages, seafood, fish and diamonds. The sanctions are against Russian businessmen Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov, the head of the Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova, as well as the Ministry of Defense, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Sukhoi company and 160 senators, as well as personally Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Putin accused the Western countries of “sanctions obsession. Deputy Chairman of the Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, after another tightening, called the number of sanctions against the country proof that they began to reckon with Russia "for real", and in some ways even more seriously than with the USSR.