EU slaps sanctions on managers of TASS and other media outlets

The European Union has imposed sanctions against the managers of major Russian media, Report informs citing TASS that EU’s official journal.

The general director of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, Oleg Dobrodeyev; the editor-in-chief of the Moskovsky Komsomolets, Pavel Gusev; and the general director of TASS Sergei Mikhailov fell under the restrictions.

In addition, sanctions were imposed on director-general of St. Petersburg TV channel Aleksandr Malkevich; editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine Igor Korotchenko; president of Krasnaya Zvezda media holding Aleksei Pimanov; and editor-in-chief and director-general of Komsomolskaya Pravda media group, Vladimir Sungorkin.

The sanctions include freezing their assets in the EU and a ban on entry into EU countries. These restrictions are part of the fifth package of EU restrictive measures against Russia, which came into force from the moment of publication.