New anti-Russian sanctions imposed by Kiev are considered by Moscow as political censorship, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova claimed. According to her, Ukraine aims at using all possible means to influence its own nationals, including bans on music and literature, military aggression against its own people, RIA Novosti informs.
Commenting on the document signed by the Ukrainian President, Press Secretary to Russian President Dmitry Peskov recollected a principle of mutuality. He also called new sanctions and prolongation of previous sanctions an unfriendly and shortsighted policy, RIA Novosti informs.
In his turn, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Franz Klintsevich is sure that Ukrainian authorities make attempts to overblow a new scandal by expanding the list of existing sanctions.
As per the head of the Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky, Ukrainian authorities make everything possible to force its nationals into cutting off the informational field of the Russian Federation.
It should be reminded that the Ukrainian President approved of a wider list of anti-Russian sanctions. A renewed list of sanctions includes more than a thousand and two hundred Russian physical bodies and around five hundred legal bodies. Internet resources, social networks, software developers, mass media, reporters and deputies of the State Duma are on the new list.
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