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Zelensky extends to 10 years sanctions against 150 people involved in organizing elections in occupied Crimea – decree
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KYIV. Dec 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has put into effect the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) dated November 10, according to which the previously imposed sanctions against a number of persons involved, in particular, in organizing voting in elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation on the territory of the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula, have been extended from the three-year term up to ten years.
Corresponding decree No. 623/2021 of December 7 and the text of the corresponding decision of the National Security and Defense Council with annexes has been published on the website of the head of the Ukrainian state.
According to the NSDC decision, the corresponding changes have been made in the NSDC decision, put into effect by presidential decree No. 82 on March 19, 2019, regarding one person – a citizen of Ukraine Kostiantyn Bakhterev, who ran from the United Russia party in a single-mandate constituency in Kerch.
Changes have been also made in the NSDC decision, introduced by presidential decree No. 184 of May 14, 2020, regarding 129 people – citizens of Ukraine, mainly the leaders and employees of the Crimean election commissions of different levels, as well as two candidates from the Russian Ecological Party The Greens, running in single-mandate constituencies in Yevpatoria and Simferopol.
Corresponding changes were made in the NSDC decision, introduced by presidential decree No. 265 of June 24, 2021 (as amended of September 7, decree No. 458), in relation to 27 people – all of them are employees or leadership of election commissions, 25 of whom are citizens of Ukraine, the citizenship of another two is not indicated.
In addition, a separate decree No. 624/2021 of December 7 clarifies personal data of Ukrainian citizen Anastasia Nesterenko, against whom indefinite sanctions were imposed by Zelensky’s decree of October 5 for her work as a member of the "territorial election commission" of Dzhankoy district in the last elections to the Russian parliament.
