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Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov was included in the US sanctions list in early March, and already on March 12, US authorities imposed sanctions on his wife, Olympic figure skating champion Tatyana Navka, and two adult children, Nikolai and Elizaveta.
Even then, Peskov reacted violently to being included in the sanctions lists of his daughter: “Well, to be honest, I was surprised, I was especially surprised because of the children. The children were even more surprised than me. But, on the other hand, this was probably the best confirmation of my stories about the unfriendly steps that are being taken against our country. They suddenly realized that everything I told them was true.”
And so, on June 3, the European Union added 18 legal entities and 65 individuals from Russia to its blacklist, including Elizaveta and Nikolai Peskov, as well as Navka.
Naturally, the new round of sanctions against his family did not leave Russia’s main propagandist indifferent, in a TASS commentary he said:
“My daughter really loves France very much, she studied there, she lived there for a long time, but many years ago she moved to us, she graduated from MGIMO here, she lives and works here in Moscow. And she is connected with France only by sympathy and warm feelings, nothing else. This is a private foundation, there are different projects. She worked for several years on a project to excavate, and then return to France in order to be worthy buried, the remains of the occupier – the French general Guden, who, as an occupier, came to Russian soil together with Napoleon and was killed here by our soldiers…. And so she worked on this project. And it is very interesting that she also fell under the sanctions. Her eyes are opened to many things.”
Peskov’s daughter Liza herself, who calls herself a citizen of the world, has not yet commented on the sanctions and her own sudden insight. However, she obviously should say goodbye to life in Paris forever.
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