Journalists Sanctioned by Ukraine Eager to Create Joint Blacklist Group

Every press worker included in Ukraine’s expanded sanctions list should join a group of “blacklisted” journalists, foreign news editor and columnist with Macedonia’s Dnevnik daily, who is among those sanctioned, told Sputnik on Thursday.

MOSCOW (Sputnik), Alexander Mosesov – Hristo Ivanovski is among the 388 individuals and 92 entities included on the latest Ukrainian sanctions list, which President Petro Poroshenko approved on Wednesday.

“My proposal is to create a group of blacklisted journalists. I think it is a good idea to have that group on social nets,” Ivanovski said after speaking with a colleague from an associated publication that was also included in the sanctions list.

The expanded list stipulates year-long entry bans and asset freezes for mostly state officials, politicians and journalists based in Russia, the European Union and other countries.

A number of foreign media outlets and organizations, including the BBC, the Committee to Protect Journalists and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, condemned Kiev’s move as a violation of media freedom.

Ukrainian Presidential Press Secretary Svyatoslav Tseholko later said that the featured British, German and Spanish journalists had been removed from the list.