The Kiev District Administrative Court has requested that Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture justifies the blacklist it has compiled of pro-Russian actors and entertainers, whose work is set to be sanctioned in the country, Ukrainian news agency Ukrainsky Novini reports.
Currently 83 people are on the Ukrainian government’s so-called blacklist for expressing strong support for pro-Russian rebels who hold lands in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas regions or the de facto Russian government in Crimea, set up after Moscow annexed it from Ukraine. Besides Russian entertainers such as Soviet-era crooner Iosif Kobzon, the list also contains the likes of French-born actor Gérard …read more
Source: Newsweek
