Zelenskyy imposes sanctions on Russian propaganda outlets, media figures and judges

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has enacted a decision of the National Security and Defence Council to impose personal special economic and other sanctions for a period of 10 years against Russian media organisations, propagandists and judges operating in Russia and in temporarily occupied territories.

Source: presidential decree dated 12 June

Details: Zelenskyy instructed the Cabinet of Ministers, the Security Service of Ukraine and the National Bank, together with the Commission on State Awards and Heraldry, to ensure the implementation and monitoring of the effectiveness of the sanctions.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been tasked with informing the relevant authorities of the EU, the United States and other countries about the sanctions and with raising the issue of introducing similar restrictive measures.

In particular, sanctions have been imposed on 29 individuals, including Vladimir Solovyov, the head of the Russian Union of Journalists; Rinat Bilalov, the editor-in-chief of Tatmedia; and its director, Shamil Sadykov, among others.

Sanctions were also imposed on Vitaliy Belitskyi, a judge of the Moscow City Court, who sentenced Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza to 25 years in prison, as well as on judge Olesia Babariko from occupied Sevastopol, whom the Security Service of Ukraine accuses of collaboration, and others.

The sanctions list also includes 17 media organisations, among them Gazeta.ru, Tatmedia, SMI2, FederalPress, Utro.ru, Lenta.ru, the Russian Union of Journalists, as well as its branches in occupied Crimea, Sevastopol, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and Luhansk oblasts.

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