Backgrounder – Sanctions against individuals involved in the violation of human rights during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Canada is imposing sanctions against Russian authorities and their local collaborators in response to gross and systematic human rights violations that have been committed in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine.

Canadian measures

The Special Economic Measures (Russia) Regulations impose on listed individuals a prohibition on dealings (effectively, an asset freeze) by prohibiting persons in Canada and Canadians outside Canada from dealing in any property of these individuals or providing financial or related services to them. The individuals listed under Part 1.1 of the schedule to the regulations for gross human rights violations are also rendered inadmissible to Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

The specific prohibitions are set out in the regulations.

The names of the individuals added to the schedule of these regulations are:

1. Kirill Vladimirovich POPOV
2. Yuriy Pavlovich DOROSHENKO
3. Dmitry Vladimirovich LAIKOV
4. Alexander Vladimirovich NAUMENKO
5. Anver Tagirovich MUKSIMOV
6. Alexander Alexandrovich BOCHAROV
7. Alexander Arsenovich CHILENGIROV
8. Sergey Vladimirovich YEVSYUKOV
9. Kirill Victorovich SHAKUROV