As official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova stated, the most authoritative opponents of the relations between the countries will get into the reciprocal sanctions list, which were noted by "extremely anti-Russian statements". Zakharova said this at a weekly briefing. Also under the sanctions will be participants and organizers of actions, campaigns or events, one way or another directed against Russia, RT reports.. "We said that we were forced to respond to the unfriendly measures of Canada, and there was an explanation of the principle of compiling the lists," RIA FAN quoted Zakharov as saying.. At the same time, the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs added that the Russian side will not publish the full list of names, because it hopes that this ingrained practice in the confrontation between Russia and the West has finally ceased. Earlier, Canada placed in the sanctions list names of 30 Russians. Thus, the Canadian authorities decided to adopt their "Magnitsky Act". List of names published by the press service of the Canadian Foreign Ministry.

In the Russian diplomatic mission the decision of Ottawa was condemned, calling it senseless. In a conversation with RIA Novosti, the spokesman for the Russian embassy in the Canadian capital, Cyril Kalinin, said that this decision reflects a narrow and primitive vision of the world that does not correspond to modern geopolitics.