Foreign Ministry statement on personal sanctions on representatives of UK government agencies, IT sector and legal services market

We note that the British government continues its aggressive anti-Russia course, within which London has set the task of inflicting “a strategic defeat on the battlefield” on Russia, actively applying the mechanism of sanctions and conducting a subversive propaganda and information campaign.

In response to these hostile actions of the British side, a decision was made to extend Russia’s stop list to include a number of representatives of UK government agencies, IT sector and legal services market.

These are employees of British companies, in particular Micro Focus, which provide Ukrainian security agencies with software and cyberdefence services necessary to collect data in order to strike Russian troops and infrastructure. The activities of these IT companies, which are accomplices of neo-Nazis, result in the death of people and can be directed against any country whose authorities do not suit the Anglo-Saxons.

The list also includes people involved in the attempts to force economic operators in Central Asian countries to comply with illegitimate unilateral sanctions imposed by the West. The British authorities, trying stubbornly and unsuccessfully to strangle the Russian economy, are inflicting painful blows on third countries’ prosperity, inventing repressive mechanisms for their own businesses, which pragmatically assess the situation and understand the futility of the sanctions policy of the collective West.

We would like to once again stress that London’s policy of comprehensive support for Ukrainian neo-Nazis is doomed to fail and will only result in further prolongation of the conflict and new casualties among the civilians. The UK must also realise that it is counterproductive to continue the anti-Russia sanctions policy, which will inevitably receive harsh response from our side.

Below is the list of British nationals who will be denied entry to the Russian Federation:

1.       Mark Kenneth Wilkinson, Micro Focus Group Limited;

2.       Stuart Alexander McGill, Micro Focus Limited;

3.       Christopher Musker, Micro Focus Group Limited and Micro Focus Limited;

4.       Rupert Michael Henry Green, Micro Focus Group Limited;

5.       Matthew Edward Ashley, Micro Focus Group Limited;

6.       Julian David, TechUK;

7.       Sheila May Flavel, TechUK;

8.       Frederick Sugden, TechUK;

9.       Amelia Alice Gould, Helsing Limited;

10.     Nicholas Karl Elliott, Helsing Limited;

11.     Ned Achilles Baker, Helsing АI;

12.     Tina Jane Whitley, NEC Software Solutions;

13.     Stephen John Maynard, NEC Software Solutions;

14.     Herman Narula, Improbable;

15.     Peter Richard Lipka, Improbable;

16.     Joseph Martin Robinson, Skyral Defence;

17.     Chris Reeves, компания Cisco;

18.     Matthew Houlihan, Cisco;

19.     Joanna Jane Crellin, Department for Business and Trade;

20.     Robert James Shooter, Fieldfisher;

21.     Andrew John Hood, Fieldfisher;

22.     Richard David Tauwhare, Fieldfisher.

We will continue to expand the Russian stop list in response to London’s hostile actions.