Ukraine has updated lists of personal special economic and other sanctions. The relevant presidential decree was signed by Petro Poroshenko.
According to the document, the sanctions are imposed on 1,748 individuals and 756 legal entities. Last year, 1,228 individuals and 468 legal entities were under personal sanctions.
In particular, the restrictive measures affect 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 have been 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.
As reported earlier, Kirill Vyshinsky, Chief of RIA Novosti-Ukraine, was detained in Kyiv on May, 15. The media outlet might have been used by the aggressor country in the context of a hybrid information war against Ukraine, spokeswoman of the SBU Olena Hitlianska said.
RIA Novosti-Ukraine was established in the 2000s as part of the self-named Russian news agency. Later it merged into the Russia Today media group. In 2014, Kirill Vyshinsky was awarded the Russian medal “For Services to the Fatherland for ‘the unbiased coverage of events in Crimea’.
A year ago, 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 against TV companies TV Center, RBC, NTV Plus, Zvezda, TNT, Moscow Media, Rossiya Segodnya, REN TV and others.
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