Backgrounder: Sanctions against individuals and entities in Belarus

Canada is imposing sanctions against individuals and entities in relation to the Lukashenko regime’s ongoing gross and systematic human rights violations in Belarus, as well as its support of Russia’s violation of Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Canadian measures

The Special Economic Measures (Belarus) Regulations impose on listed individuals a prohibition on dealings (effectively, an asset freeze) by prohibiting persons in Canada and Canadians outside Canada from dealing in any property of these individuals and entities or providing financial or related services to them. The individuals and entities listed under Part 1.1 of the schedule to the regulations for participating in human rights violations and supporting Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine are also rendered inadmissible to Canada under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act.

The specific prohibitions are set out in the regulations.

The names of the individuals added to the schedule of these regulations are:

• Galina Rodionovna LUKASHENKO
• Olga Sergeyevna MARSHALOVICH
• Artem Dmitrievich BALABA
• Maxim Dmitrievich BALABA
• Irina Viktorovna KARPENKOVA
• Igor Nikolayevich KARPENKOV 
• Vladislav Nikolayevich PAVLENKO
• Vladimir Vladimirovich CHUDAKOV
• Anatoly Nikolayevich SAVENOK 
• Andrey Valeryevich ANANENKO

The entities added to the schedule of these regulations are:

• Special Purpose Police Units (also known as OMON) 
• Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (also known as GUBOPiK) 
• State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus (also known as Belarusian KGB) 
• Stankogomel  
• Belarusian Steel Works 
• Legmash  
• KB Unmanned Helicopters  
• LLC Laboratory of Additive Technologies  
• Ruchservomotor 
• Minsk Bearing Plant 
• Minsk Gear Plant  
• Vistan