Russia bans 48 Australians from entering

The Russian Foreign Ministry imposed personal sanctions against 48 Australian citizens, banning them from entering the country on an indefinite basis, reported on the website of the department.

We are talking about journalists and parliamentarians who form the anti-Russian agenda in Australia, as well as contractors of the country’s military-industrial complex. The ban is being introduced, the Foreign Ministry added, in response to politically motivated Australian sanctions against Russian citizens and companies.

“Given that official Canberra does not intend to abandon the anti-Russian course and continues to produce new sanctions, work on updating the Russian “stop list” will continue,” the Russian Foreign Ministry concluded.

On June 15, it became known that the Australian government was canceling the lease agreement for the site on which the construction of the Russian embassy was planned. This agreement was concluded between the countries in 2008. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, today the parliament quickly passed the relevant law, which was introduced by the government. Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attributed the decision to security concerns.

The Russian Foreign Ministry strongly protested this step of the Australian authorities, promising retaliatory measures. In the Kremlin, Australia’s decision to cancel the lease on the site was called another unfriendly manifestation.

May 19 Australia expanded sanctions against Russia, adding 21 companies and three individuals to the list. Under the restrictions, including the presidential aide Maxim Oreshkin, the head of the state-legal department of the president, Larisa Brycheva, and the head of Rosfinmonitoring, Yuri Chikhanchin, fell. Among the companies in the sanctions list of Australia were added the state corporation “Rosatom“, gold mining company PJSC Polyusa number of defense enterprises and five banks: MTS Bank, Uralsib,Zenith”, “St. Petersburg”, Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development.