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Timothy Garton Ash in a panel discussion with Anne Applebaum, Dr Robin Niblett, James Rubin and the BBC’s Ritula Shah
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On Monday, Russia imposed sanctions on 18 British citizens, including senior academic figures and experts on Russian politics and history, Reuters reported. Through the sanctions, Moscow is responding to what it describes as “an attempt to demonize Russia and fuel the war in Ukraine.”
“We are forced to state that the Russophobic representatives of Great Britain do not shy away from trying to discredit the constitutional system and socio-political processes in our country,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
It claims that “the so-called think tanks, operating on the basis of the largest British and Western educational institutions, have a significant contribution to the subversive work of London in the Russian direction.”
Personal sanctions were announced once morest British Under Secretary of Defense James Cartledge, Deputy National Security Adviser Sarah Mackintosh and Director of Submarines Simon Asquith.
Stuart Peach, the special envoy of the British Prime Minister for the Western Balkans, as well as Lords Dan Hannan and Michael Ashcroft are also targeted.
Sanctioned academics include historians Timothy Garton Ash, Orlando Figges, Norman Davis, Rob Johnson, David Aboulafia, as well as experts Roy Allison of Oxford University, Graham Robertson of the University of North Carolina, Calder Walton of Harvard University and James Sher of the International Defense Center and security in Tallinn.
“I am honored to join so many good friends on the Russian sanctions list…” wrote Prof. Garton Ash – historian, essayist, commentator, professor of European studies at Oxford University – in X.
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