MOSCOW, September 26. /TASS/. Russia imposed sanctions on figures from the British political establishment and `expert’ community in response to London’s continued confrontational course, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"The list includes individuals advocating for a tougher sanctions pressure on Russia and engaged in London’s subversive activities towards Russia, including the fabrication of anti-Russia materials and the spreading of pseudo-expert reviews of our country," the ministry explained.
Among other people, the sanctions affected James Byrne, co-founder and CEO of the Open Source Center think tank, Anna Deibel-Jung, Deputy Director of the Office of Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) within the Department for Business and Trade, David Doogan, a member of the House of Commons from the Scottish National Party, and Max Petrokofsky, the head for Sectoral Sanctions (Trade) at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
In addition, a number of officials from the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation at the Treasury were sanctioned, too.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, London "has not abandoned the hope of inflicting a strategic defeat on our country with the help of the Kiev regime under its sway. To extend the `Ukraine project’ which has suffered one defeat after another, Britain in recent days resorted to its tools of the manipulation of consciousness by launching yet another bout of anti-Russian spy fever and raising allegations about a `military threat’ being posed to Europe and a pompous announcement of economic restrictions that actually harm the British economy itself," the ministry said.
