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To hold an extraordinary Verkhovna Rada meeting, 156 of the 150 required signatures were collected, said Roman Lozinsky, a member of the Voice faction.
In the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, 156 deputies supported the initiative to hold an extraordinary meeting. This was announced by the deputy of the “Voice” faction, the initiator of the collection of signatures Roman Lozinsky on his Facebook page.
“156 signatures of the 150 required were collected. This morning the start of the gathering of parliamentary signatures was announced for an extraordinary parliamentary meeting. All to solve a single problem and protect the country from the cyber troops of the aggressor. Social networks of the occupant must be locked! ” – Lozinsky wrote.
Access to certain Russian and separatist resources has been limited since May 2017 for a period of one to three years in accordance with Presidential Decree No. 133/2017, by which the then Head of State Peter Poroshenko implemented the NSDC decision sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian individuals and companies.
In the sanctions list, among others, social networks. VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, as well as Mail.Ru and Yandex services, sites of the Russian antivirus companies Kaspersky Lab and Doctor Web. May 17 decree It was published in “Pollos del Gobierno” and officially entered into force. In 2018 and 2019, the document was amended (decrees / 176/2018 and N ° 82/2019)
A petition was registered on the President’s website with a request to lift sanctions against Russian social media, but Poroshenko refused to comply. In response to the request, he emphasized that VKontakte and Mail.Ru “were widely used by Russian intelligence agencies to promote Russian propaganda and conduct special information operations against Ukraine and its citizens.”
Representatives of the team of the current President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky also announced that sanctions against Russian and separatist sites should be in force in July and August 2019. So, the former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, Aleksandr Danilyuk, He said July 22 that the sanctions will remain in effect until the expiration date or legal cancellation. On August 5, the then-presidential adviser, and now the Minister for Digital Transformation, Mikhail Fedorov, said that it was not advisable to remove the blockade of the Russian social networks Odnoklassniki and VKontakte.
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