The initiative has been approved by two thirds of the Ukrainian Senate
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The Ukrainian Parliament has approved this Sunday a law that prohibits reproduction in public of music by artists who have Russian citizenship.
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The initiative has been approved by two thirds of the Ukrainian Senate, as reported by the deputy Yaroslav Zhelezniak through your Telegram account.
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“The musical production of the aggressor state (could) influencing separatist sentiment in the population“, according to the justification included in the norm itself and could promote a more attractive Russian identity that seeks to weaken the Ukrainian state.
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will only be done exceptions with the artists who have publicly condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the secret service (SBU) will be in charge of drawing up the list of exceptions.
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It has also been banned import and distribution of books and other material printed from Russia, Belarus and the territories occupied by Russian forces. Books from Russia were already subject to censorship since 2016.
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