Poroshenko imposed sanctions against the leaders of the Russian media

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, with his decree, introduced the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of May 20 on personal sanctions against Russian media leaders, the press service of the head of state reports . The list includes the names of 17 people.

The sanctions were the general director of the Channel One Channel One Konstantin Ernst, General Director of the VGTRK Media Holding Oleg Dobroduev, general director of the Russia-1 television channel Anton Zlatopol, the editor-in-chief of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan, General Director of TASS Sergey Mikhail Broadcasting NTV Andrei Kunitsyn, editor -in -chief of the Russian Newspaper Vladislav Fronin.

In addition, the list includes the editor -in -chief and general director of Komsomolskaya Pravda JSC Vladimir Sungorkin, the chief editor of the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper Pavel Gusev, REGNUM news agencies Vigen Akopyan, Russian Reporter Vitaly Leibin, Novorus.info, Andrei Surkov, the owner of the Pravda.ru holding Vadim Gorshenin, The TV presenter of “Channel One” Irada Zeynalova, former general director of the Lifenews television channel Ashot Gabrelyanov, ex-head of the NTV television company Vladimir Kulistikov, ex-head of the LifeNews television channel and Izvestia newspaper Alexander Potapov.

It is noted that persons who have fallen under sanctions "create real and potential threats to national interests, national security, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, contribute to terrorist activities and violate the rights and freedoms of a citizen, lead to the occupation of territories and create obstacles for the full realization by citizens of Ukraine of proper rights and freedoms."

"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine must inform the competent authorities of the European Union, the USA and other states to impose sanctions and raise the question of the application of similar restrictive measures for the relevant persons," the report said.

The validity of the sanctions was determined until December 31, 2017.

After the annexation of Crimea and the aggression in the Donbass in Ukraine, the broadcasting of the RTR-Planeta channels, NTV-MI, the Channel One, World Network, Tvci, Russia-1, NTV, TNT, Petersburg-5, REN TV, RNE, RBK-TV, Lifenews, Russia, Russia was prohibited Today. More than 30 Russian television channels hit the ban.