{"id":7621,"date":"2023-04-12T14:15:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T14:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-imposes-sanctions-on\/"},"modified":"2023-04-12T14:17:06","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T14:17:06","slug":"russia-imposes-sanctions-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-imposes-sanctions-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia imposes sanctions on 333 Canadians, including Olympians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -Russia on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 333 Canadian officials and public figures, including prominent Olympians, in what it said was a tit-for-tat response to Canadian restrictions on Moscow and support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Russia has routinely placed sanctions on Western officials and high-profile individuals &#8211; effectively a permanent ban on them entering Russia &#8211; since the West targeted hundreds of Russian individuals and companies over the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The list, published by Russia&#8217;s foreign ministry on Wednesday, includes Canada&#8217;s Governor General Mary Simon, more than 250 members of regional legislative assemblies, and scores of Canadian athletes who have publicly supported a ban on Russian athletes competing at the 2024 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This measure is designed to encourage those on the black list to change their behaviour,&#8221; the ministry said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Olympians targeted by Russia include ice dancer Tessa Virtue, a five-time Olympic medallist, and hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser, a six-time Olympian.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Barbara Lewis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/russia-imposes-sanctions-on\/file-photo-canadas-governor-general-simon-takes-part-in-an-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3B0IT-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3B0IT-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) -Russia on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 333 Canadian officials and public figures, including prominent Olympians, in what it said was a tit-for-tat response to Canadian restrictions on Moscow and support for Ukraine. Russia has routinely placed sanctions on Western officials and high-profile individuals &#8211; effectively a permanent ban on them entering Russia &#8211; since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1222],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-7621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-world-news","tag-updated"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportSportsNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3B0IT-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7621"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7691,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7621\/revisions\/7691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}