The security service of Ukraine has banned the Entry of sixteen artists and representatives of mass media of the Russian Federation, among them the Actor and Director Nikita Mikhalkov, informs the Internet edition.

As the magazine stresses, the Ministry said in response to a request for information.

"The security service of Ukraine has banned entry to the platform 16 artists and the media. For example, persona non grata in Ukraine, Russian commentators declared Vladimir Kucherenko, Yegor Kholmogorov and Mikhail Khazin. The list of 13 artists: Oleg Gazmanov, Joseph Kobzon, Valeria perfilova (stage name Valeria), Iosif Prigozhin, Sergei Bezrukov, Mikhail Boyarsky, Nikolai Rastorguev, Ivan Okhlobystin and Mikhail Porechenkov, Grigory Leps, Gerard Depardieu, Stanislav EHA (Stas Pieha) and Nikita Mikhalkov, " informs journal.

the first time the "black list" of cultural figures from Russia was made public in early August, however, Mikhalkov wasn't on the list.

"The entrance to the site of Ukraine banned by the SBU in Accordance with the requirements of applicable law and in the interests of ensuring state security ", - quotes the magazine a letter to the SBU.

before the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a decision to stop for a while accreditation 100 Russian media in the bodies of state power of Ukraine until the end of hostilities in the Donbass. Similarly, in Kiev SBU employees without explanation were caught by the reporters of Russian TV, and then deported to the Russian Federation with the prohibition of entry to Ukraine for five years.

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