View of Sydney, Australia. File photoMOSCOW, May 18Australian authorities have placed a number of Russian journalists and government officials on the sanctions list, including Dmitry Kiselyov, director general of Rossiya Segodnya news agency, Sergey Korolev, first deputy director of the FSB, Alexei Nikolov, director general of RT, and acting head Ministry of Emergency Situations of Alexander Chupriyan, this follows from the data on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Australia. In addition, the following fell under the sanctions:
- —VGTRK war correspondent Yevgeny Poddubny;< /li>
- —military correspondent of the Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda Alexander Kots;
- —special correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda Dmitry Steshin;< /li>
- —VGTRK host Sergey Brilev, Channel One host Mikhail Leontiev;
- —Director of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War Alexander Shkolnik;< /li>
- —First Deputy Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Bogdanovsky;
- — General Director of Gazprom-Media Alexander Zharov
The Wagner PMC was also included in the list .Restrictions have also been imposed on two Belarusian enterprises: the manufacturer of tracked vehicles «Minotor-Service» and JSC «KB Radar». In addition, the list included the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, who was deprived of his mandate, Ilya Kiva and the former deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, Taras Kozak. Until today 812 individuals and 47 organizations and departments were listed on the Australian sanctions list.