SBU banned Artemy Lebedev to enter Ukraine

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) banned the entrance to the country by Russian designer Artemy Lebedev, Apostrophe reports with reference to the answer, received by the publication from the SBU.

In April 2016, Lebedev visited Donetsk not controlled by the Ukrainian authorities. Also, since 2014, he spoke in support of the transition of Crimea to Russia.

For this, he was included in the black list, which is the Ukrainian site “Peacemaker” (blocked in Russia). The site contains an open database of people whom it calls separatists or “Kremlin agents”. The resource was created on the initiative of the adviser to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko.

The SBU decided to ban Lebedev to enter the entry in connection with the “implementation of activities aimed at harm in the field of information security”.