Canada has added a number of Russian statesmen to its sanctions list, including the first two female cosmonauts and now State Duma lawmakers Valentina Tereshkova and Svetlana Savitskaya. Updated list published area Canadian government.
The list includes Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (born March 6, 1937) and Svetlana Evgenievna Savitskaya (born August 8, 1948).
Valentina Tereshkova became the world’s first female cosmonaut in 1963. Currently, she is a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and a member of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party she. In March 2020, he proposed an amendment to the Russian Constitution that would allow incumbent Russian President Vladimir Putin to run for president two more times.
Svetlana Savitskaya is the second female cosmonaut in the world and the first woman in the world to go into space. She is now a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII convocations from the Communist Party.
After the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, both women were subject to international sanctions from European Union countries, the USA and some other countries.
It was previously reported that the Canadian government imposed sanctions on February 24. sanctions Against 129 real and 63 legal entities of the Russian Federation, including Mishustin’s deputies, wife and son Dmitry Medvedev Svetlana and Ilya and other representatives of the Russian authorities.