The National Agency for the Prevention of Corruption has added 362 more people who support the Kremlin's policies to the list of potential candidates for international sanctions.
This was reported by the NAPC press service.
‘This is the 22nd list that the NACP has sent to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to expand sanctions by partner countries, as well as to the Office of the Prosecutor General and the Security Service of Ukraine to take measures to bring to criminal responsibility, block assets and resolve the issue of their recovery in favour of Ukraine,’ the statement said.
In particular, the NACP initiates the imposition of sanctions on:
- persons involved in proceedings against Russian oppositionists for their anti-war public statements (8 judges who ruled in cases against the deputy of the Krasnoselsky municipal district of Moscow, Elena Koteno. Elena Kotenochkina and opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who openly condemned the military aggression against Ukraine).
- Opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was arrested for spreading ‘fakes’ about the Russian army. Olena Kotyonochkina was also arrested in absentia on this charge.
- 14 deputies of the Novosibirsk City Council of Deputies who initiated the prosecution of deputy Helga Pirogova.The collective appeal of the deputies became the basis for the initiation of a criminal case against Helga Pirogova under the article on ‘military fakes’.
- Propagandists, including:
- Dmytro Vydrin, a former member of the Ukrainian parliament and advisor to four Ukrainian presidents. Vydrin considers the Russian invasion to be demilitarisation and denazification, and expresses his ‘expert opinion’ as a political scientist and journalist for the propaganda portal Ukraine.ru;
- historian Felix Razumovsky, who spreads narratives about the ‘ideology of Ukrainian fascism’, ‘external governance of Ukraine’ and ‘crimes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the civilian population’;
- film director Nikita Mikhalkov, who spreads absurd claims about biolabs and an attempt to destroy the Slavic ethnic group with infected birds;
- singer Irina Allegrova, who, after a long silence, publicly stated that she supports the actions of the Russian army;
- rock singers Valery Kipelov and Alexander Ivanov, who promote war at their concerts.
TheNACP also proposed to include the head of the Russian Red Cross, Pavel Savchuk, in the list. This organisation agitates Russians to go to war against Ukraine and sends humanitarian aid to the Russian military.
In total, 18.9 thousand individuals and 4 thousand legal entities have been added to the lists.
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