Vladimir Putin has signed an order introducing special economic measures in response to Ukraine’s ‘unfriendly actions toward a number of Russian individuals and legal entities’.
“The federal bodies of state authority, bodies of state authority of the Russian Federation’s constituent entities, other state bodies, local bodies of self-government, and organizations and individuals within the Russian Federation’s jurisdiction shall, in pursuing their activities, take into consideration that, starting the day this executive order comes into effect, special economic measures shall be applied to certain individuals and legal entities,” the document reads.
The Russian government has also been instructed to draw up lists of individuals and legal entities to which special economic measures are to be applied and determine special economic measures to be applied to them, Interfax Ukraine reports.
In May, Ukraine updated lists of sanctions on Russian officials and companies. According to the document, the sanctions are imposed on 1,748 individuals and 756 legal entities.
In particular, the restrictive measures affected the interests of the Ukrainian office of the RIA Novosti Russian news website. The access to rian.com.ua was blocked, its assets was frozen. In addition, the sanctions were сlamped on Russian oligarchs and officials in Putin’s entourage: Oleg Deripaska, Viktor Vekselberg, Igor Rotenberg, Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev and others.
In 2017, the assess to Russian social media Vkontakte (vk.ru), Odnoklassniki (ok.ru) and most services of Yandex group was blocked in Ukraine. Moreover, the country’s Internet providers were obliged to block access to Russia’s e-mail service mail.ru, anti-virus software developers Kaspersky Lab and DrWeb and 1C accounting software developer. The sanctions were imposed on TV companies TV Center, RBC, NTV Plus, Zvezda, TNT, Moscow Media, Rossiya Segodnya, REN TV and others.
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