NEW CANADIAN SANCTIONS ‘UNACCEPTABLE’ - MOSCOW (STA BREAKING NEWS and ARCHIVES)

by STANews , Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 08:14

Canada has expanded its sanctions against Russia to include the country’s largest lender Sberbank, and five other companies, as well as five individuals. Russia plans to retaliate against the measures.

The new economic sanctions and travel bans are meant to curb Russia’s perceived involvement in the crisis in eastern Ukraine, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird told Canada’s House of Commons on Tuesday.

"The sanctions imposed in coordination with our other allies are without a doubt having an effect on the Russian economy," John Baird is quoted as saying on the ministry’s website.

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