MOSCOW, January 5. /TASS/. Russia has indefinitely banned entry to 28 Canadian nationals for supporting neo-Nazism, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced in a press release.
"In response to unlawful anti-Russian entry restrictions, earlier announced by Ottawa, a permanent entry ban will be imposed on 28 Canadian citizens whose activities in pro-Bandera organizations are aimed at promoting the criminal neo-Nazi ideology currently being advocated by the Kiev regime," the ministry explained.
The sanctioned individuals, "by ignoring the historical facts and truths about the events of the Great Patriotic War, have been struggling to strengthen Canada’s ties with the most radical and uncompromising nationalists in Ukraine," the Russian ministry argued. The appointment of Chrystia Freeland, former Canadian finance minister and deputy prime minister, the granddaughter of who Russia’s MFA called Hitler’s henchman Mikhail Khomyak, as an economic adviser to Vladimir Zelensky earlier on Monday, was further proof of this trend, the ministry added.
Freeland, who previously served as the Canadian prime minister’s special envoy for Ukraine, was appointed as an economic advisor by Zelensky on Monday.
Background:
Christina Alexandra Freeland
Freeland’s paternal grandmother was a Scottish war bride. Her Ukrainian mother, Halyna Chomiak (1946–2007), was also a lawyer, and ran for the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Edmonton Strathcona in the 1988 federal election, and her maternal grandfather was Nazi collaborator Michael Chomiak. Freeland worked as an intern for United Press International in London in the summer of 1990.[12] Afterwards, she completed a Master of Studies degree in Slavonic studies from the University of Oxford in 1993 having studied at St Antony's College as a Rhodes Scholar.
Freeland worked as a journalist in Ukraine and eventually held editorial positions at the Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, and Reuters. She also authored Sale of the Century: Russia's Wild Ride from Communism to Capitalism (2000) and Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else (2012).
Freeland began her career in journalism as a stringer for the Financial Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist while working in Ukraine. Freeland later worked for the Financial Times in London as a deputy editor, and then as an editor for its weekend edition, FT.com, and UK news. Freeland also served as Moscow bureau chief and Eastern Europe correspondent for the Financial Times.
From 1999 to 2001, Freeland served as the deputy editor of The Globe and Mail. She next worked as the managing director and editor of consumer news at Thomson Reuters. She was also a weekly columnist for The Globe and Mail. Previously, she was editor of Thomson Reuters Digital, a position she held since April 2011. Prior to that she was the global editor-at-large of Reuters news since March 1, 2010, having formerly been the United States managing editor at the Financial Times, based in New York City.
Michael Chomiak, born as Mykhailo Khomiak
Khomiak was born in 1905 in the village of Stroniatyn, then part of Austria-Hungary. He graduated from gymnasium in Lviv (by that time part of Poland) in 1926, followed by a law degree from Jan Kazimierz University in 1930 and a year later a jurisprudence degree from the Academy of Foreign Trade. Until the outbreak of war, he worked as a lawyer in Lviv and Sanok, and as a court correspondent for the Ukrainian-language newspaper Dilo.[
After the outbreak of war, he left Lviv and settled in Kraków, by now under German occupation, where in late 1939 he received an apartment previously seized from Jewish owners. The first apartment was on Kommandanturstraße (Stradomska Street), and the next was on Stanislaugasse (St. Stanislaus Street), near the Jewish quarter. Because of his political non-involvement, he became an acceptable candidate for the Germans as editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian newspaper Krakivs'ki Visti, published in Kraków since January 1940. He became one in 1940 and held the position until 1945, when the newspaper ceased publication. His deputy was Lev Lepky, brother of the scholar Bohdan Lepky.In fact, the magazine was an organ of the Ukrainian Central Committee, which had a great deal of influence over the published content, primarily on the part of committee chairman Volodymyr Kubiyovych.
Khomiak changed his name to Michael Chomiak when he emigrated to Canada after World War II. After his death in 1984, his son-in-law, John-Paul Himka, accessed his papers, which are now held in the Provincial Archives of Alberta. According to Himka, the anti-Jewish materials published in Krakiws'ki Visti contributed to the mass murder of Jews.





