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The Russian government says it is sanctioning a further 121 Australian citizens including business people, army officials and journalists. Russia’s foreign ministry on Thursday night said the move to bar entry to the Australians was in response to Australian government sanctions against Russian individuals, put in place following the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.Names include ABC chair Ita Buttrose, News Corp co-chair Lachlan Murdoch, South Australian premier Peter Malinauskas and Defence Force chief General Angus Campbell alongside various business people, newspaper editors, academics and thinktank heads.
Media personalities Stan Grant, Andrew Bolt and Liz Hayes were included as well as Atlassian co-founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, mining magnates Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest and Gina Rinehart as well as Nine Entertainment Group chair Peter Costello and Meriton apartment developer Harry Triguboff.It added that it could expand the blacklist as the Australian government “does not seem inclined to abandon its anti-Russia policy line and continues to produce new sanctions”.
Russia describes the incursion of its forces into Ukraine as a “special military operation” to disarm and “denazify” its neighbour.Australia in May sanctioned more than 70 Russian politicians and more than 30 local officials in the eastern Ukrainian separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk.
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