President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree imposing economic sanctions against Russians and individuals associated with Russia. 178 people got into it.
Most of the people who have been sanctioned are Russian citizens. Basically, these are judges, including those of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Restrictions have also been imposed on its chairman, Valery Zorkin. Their term is five years. In addition to the Russians, the list also includes Ukrainian judges who spoke on the side of Russia.
On May 23, the head of the Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, showed Russian President Vladimir Putin a 17th-century map drawn up by the French under Louis XIV. Looking at it, neither Zorkin nor Putin "found" Ukraine, since it "did not exist." However, this territory is on the map shown to Putin: as part of the then-existing Commonwealth, it is signed as “Vkraine ou Pays des Cosaques” (“Ukraine, land of the Cossacks”). Also on the map, the Crimean peninsula is indicated as Crimski tartares du Crim – Crimean Tatars of Crimea.
Ukraine regularly imposes sanctions against the Russian Federation, as well as citizens and organizations that support Russia's war against Ukraine. On May 27, restrictions were introduced against the structures of MTS and Russian Railways, as well as 19 Belarusian enterprises.
