[1][2] In response, Russia has imposed its own sanctions against other countries, which include a complete ban on food imports from Australia, Canada, Norway, the United States, and the European Union.
The European Union, United States, and Canada imposed an initial round of sanctions on 17 March 2014, and, on 11 April,[3][4][5] Albania, Iceland and Montenegro announced that they would be following suit.
[36] Further sanctions by the US have been made in February 2024, presumably in response to the death of Alexei Navalny in a Work Camp prison, and to mark the upcoming second anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia.
On August 21, 2021, Russia expanded its economic sanctions on Ukrainian individuals and included Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov.
The updated version of the list of sanctioned individuals, approved by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, was published on the government website containing legal information.
[147] On March 15,2024, Russia has banned entry to another 227 Americans involved in fostering and implementing the Russophobic policy of the current US administration, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced.
[153] Moscow barred entry to 55 Canadian and American citizens in response to another expansion of anti-Russian sanctions by Ottawa, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in its statement on August 31, 2022.
[154] The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on September 22, 2022, that an additional 87 Canadian citizens have been indefinitely barred from entering the country in response to Ottawa's anti-Russian sanctions.
The newly blacklisted are Canada's regional leaders, senior military officers, heads of companies supplying Ukraine with weapons and dual-use technologies.
[160] On June 16, 2022, the MFARF said that it was sanctioning an additional 121 Australian citizens, including journalists and defense officials, citing what it calls a "Russophobic agenda" in the country.
[161] Russia has added 39 representatives of Australian security services and defense companies to a "stop-list" that bars them from entering the country, in response to a sanctions law adopted by Canberra, the Russian foreign ministry said on July 21, 2022.
[162] Russia imposed sanctions on 32 citizens of New Zealand, including representatives of the command of the country's armed forces and journalists, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on July 30, 2022.
[170] On June 14, 2022, Russia has imposed sanctions on 49 UK citizens, including journalists, defense officials and arms industry executives, in response to western punitive measures against Moscow over the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
[171][172] Russia has expanded its sanctions stop-list for British nationals, putting on it 39 politicians, business people, and journalists, including the country's former Prime Minister David Cameron, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on August 1, 2022.
[174] Moscow has expanded its sanctions stop-list for British nationals, blackballing 36 politicians, security officials, and journalists from the UK, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on January 12, 2023.
In a statement on its website, the ministry said officers of the British armed forces involved in the training of Ukrainian military against the Russian army, including commanders of formations that provided instructors for this purpose, have been put on Russia's stop list.
"In particular, representatives of the management of the maximum security prison Bermarsh in London, which is known for repeated cases of human rights violations were included in the 'stop list'," the ministry said.
[177] Russia has imposed personal sanctions against 18 British citizens, including officials, scholars and law enforcement representatives, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on February 12, 2024.
[179] Russia imposed an entry ban for 9 Icelandics, 16 Norwegians, 3 Greenlanders and 3 Faroe Islanders in retaliation for their joining the European Union sanctions, the MFARF said in a statement released on April 29, 2022.
The Russian Foreign Ministry blamed the governments of the three Baltic states of interfering in its domestic affairs and “persecuting” their Russian-speaking populations in the announcement published on its website.
It also said that the Baltic countries were waging “a barbaric campaign of mass demolition of monuments to Soviet soldiers-liberators, rewriting history, glorifying Nazism,” as well as “pumping up the Kyiv regime with weapons.”“These atrocities demand retaliatory measures against those involved,” the Foreign Ministry's statement continued.
[188] Russia has banned Interior Minister Ana Revenco and three deputies of the Action and Solidarity Party, PAS, Oazu Nantoi, Olesea Stamate and Lilian Carp on April 24, 2023.
[189] In March 2015, the Russian Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-being (Rospotrebnadzor) banned supplies of certain household chemicals made in Ukraine.
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree expanding the list of Ukrainian companies that have economic sanctions imposed on them in connection with unfriendly actions of Ukraine.
The resolution appoints the Russian Finance Ministry responsible for sending proposals to the Cabinet of Ministers on making changes to the list, as well as on granting temporary permits for certain transactions with persons under sanctions.
[191] On October 11, Russia's financial monitoring agency, Rosfinmonitoring, has added US tech giant Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook, to its list of "terrorists and extremists".
The list followed a decree issued on August 5 by President Vladimir Putin banning dealings in stakes in the financial and energy sectors owned by parties in "unfriendly" countries unless specific permission was given.
The list included Russian units of Intesa Sanpaolo, Credit Suisse, Raiffeisen, Citi, OTP Bank, Western Union DP Vostok and UniCredit.
[193] Subsidiaries of Deutsche Bank, the French group BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, UBS, HSBC, JPMorgan, PayPal service, American Express payment system and others as well as the Russian Yandex-Bank and Ozon-Bank were present.
The decree has been prepared pursuant to an order by Russian President Vladimir Putin ‘On use of retaliatory special economic measures due to hostile actions of certain foreign states and international organizations’.