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The Russian Foreign Ministry has blacklisted a collection of defence industry personnel operating in Australia, under new sanctions announced this week.
The list of 131 personal sanctions against allegedly “anti-Russian Australian citizens” was announced by the ministry on 29 October.
It includes key personnel from defence companies such as Kord Defence, NIOA Group, Electro Optic Systems, Bae Systems, DefendTex, SPEE3D, Codan Group, Sentinel Boats, Ferra Group and others.
The new additions to the overall blacklist include personnel from local, state and federal government and the Australian Defence Force.
“In response to politically motivated sanctions against Russian individuals and legal entities by the Australian government, introduced as part of the Russophobic campaign of the ‘collective West’, entry into the Russian Federation is closed on an indefinite basis for an additional 131 Australians from among representatives of the military-industrial complex, journalists and public figures who are forming an anti-Russian agenda in this country,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
“Considering that official Canberra does not intend to abandon its anti-Russian course and continues to introduce new sanctions, work on updating the Russian ‘stop list’ will continue.”
The list also sanctions several public personalities associated with the defence industry and government such as Victoria Cross recipient Mark Donaldson (a NIOA Group board member), Western Australia Police Commissioner Col Blanche, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute’s Marcus Hellyer, Gladstone Regional Council mayor Matt Burnett, Queensland corrective services minister Nikki Boyd, NSW corrective services minister Anoulack Chanthivong, Western Australia corrective services minister Paul Papalia, Christopher Pyne and Robert Nioa among others.
