The UK government expanded its anti-Russian sanctions blacklisting the VGTRK broadcaster and certain journalists from Russia for covering the events in Ukraine, according to a statement by the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office made public on Wednesday.
The restrictive measures which involve a ban on entering the country and the freezing of bank accounts if such are discovered were imposed on journalist Nailya Asker-Zade, war correspondents Yevgeny Poddubny, Alexander Kots, Dmitry Steshin, TV anchor Mikhail Leontyev, presidential aide and chairman of the board of directors of Channel One Maxim Oreshkin.
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