Ukrainian authorities May 24 published a presidential decree that extends for three years sanctions imposed in 2017 against Russian state-funded news outlets and their journalists, as well as other foreign entities and individuals, and added the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti-Ukraine to the sanctions list, according to media reports.
The decree, which Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed on May 14, prolongs measures taken last year against Russian media companies– including Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today), Sputnik, VGTRK, NTV, REN TV, TNT, OTR and others – that restricted or suspended their access to Ukrainian telecommunications networks. The decree also barred the outlets’ journalists from entering Ukraine for the next three years and froze any assets that they had in the country.
