Opera singer Anna Netrebko, artist Yevgeny Petrosyan, philosopher Alexander Dugin, CEO of the Rossiya Segodnya media group Dmitry Kiselyov, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan and others also fell under the sanctions.
In December, Zelensky instructed Prime Minister Denis Shmygal to study the grounds for imposing personal sanctions against the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, the leader of the Opposition Platform for Life party, banned in the country, Yuriy Boyko.