The Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation will not take retaliatory measures concerning the European Union, including actor Joseph Kobzon to the sanctions list, as in the European Union there is simply no artists such level, said correspondents Minister Vladimir Medinsky.

first published in the journal of the EU has any information about what Kobzon and the people's choice of the state Duma from the CPRF Valery Rashkin included in the list of punishments of the EU in Ukraine. The defendants in the list are banned entry to the EU, their assets in the EU frozen.

"There's no artists level Kobzon, to receive equal punishment, and wasted no sense," said Medina.

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