New anti-Russian sanctions may affect philanthropists and cultural figures

Europe no longer has anything to impose anti-Russian sanctions on, so they will try to tighten the existing ones.

This was stated during a press conference in Kyiv by the First Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Vladimir Chizhov, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.

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“It is almost impossible to find anything that is not covered by sanctions. Except for what is impossible to cover due to the resistance of a number of countries: nuclear energy, liquefied natural gas, the import of which from Russia to the EU has grown at a breakneck pace over the past two years.

Here, diamonds - and what have they achieved? Diamonds moved to India, Mumbai, which had previously competed for the title of the diamond capital of the world,” the ambassador said.

He emphasized that now the merchant fleet and philanthropists may come under sanctions.

“Therefore, now the focus of the discussion is on what to do to minimize the possibility of circumventing sanctions. This is a fight against the so-called shadow tanker fleet.

There are still attempts to clamp down on LNG trade. And, of course, the fight against Russian individuals, including those involved in charity, cultural ties, and so on.

But this is well known, our country and society are ready for this. If in the beginning it was still possible to scare someone with sanctions, now it’s definitely not possible,” concluded Chizhov.