Upcoming EU sanctions plan to target Russia's propaganda system. In particular, 144 people have already been added to the draft new black list, including such popular Russian TV presenters as Boris Korchevnikov and Marina Kim, singer Grigory Leps, as well as writers Dmitry Puchkov, Nikita Mikhalkov and Sergey Mikheev, EUobserver writes..

The documents reviewed by the publication say that Korchevnikov publishes comments on social networks that “associate the West and Ukraine with godlessness and the devil, and Mikheev declares “the need for denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine”.

The EU is also pursuing an asset freeze and visa ban on four members of the Kovalchuk family who own media and social media companies and are close to Russian President Vladimir Putin.. One of them, Tatyana Kovalchuk, is "

Sanctions will also be imposed on five heads of Russian television companies Ren TV and TV News. State media holdings VGTRK and the National Media Group, the state broadcaster ANO TV-Novosti and the Strategic Culture Foundation in Moscow, attributed to the EU as a cover for foreign intelligence of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, are to freeze assets in the EU.

Three more Russian channels - NTV / NTV Mir, Russia 1 and REN TV - will be deprived of their licenses for broadcasting in the EU countries. Said Russian media outlets are caught in “serious distortion and manipulation of facts” to justify a war against Ukraine and destabilize EU countries, which constitutes a “significant and direct threat to public order and the security of the Union,” the documents say..

The list also includes two daughters and a cousin of Ramzan Kadyrov and dozens of minor government ministers, deputies, senators, regional governors, military and officials..

Also, the new package of sanctions includes an embargo on investments in the Russian mining sector, a ban on the sale of dual-use technologies to 169 Russian companies, and a freeze on the assets of the Moscow Credit Bank and the Far East Bank..

The EU sanctions will also confirm that Russia is stealing Ukrainian children as part of its campaign and also terrorizing Ukraine.. The sanctions list will include four Russian officials who, ironically, were in charge of protecting children, but who led the Kremlin's campaign of illegal transportation of Ukrainian children to Russia and their adoption by Russian families.

At the same time, the details of this sanctions package are still subject to change during the EU foreign ministers' talks in Brussels on Monday, December 12.

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On December 7, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen announced prepared proposals for the ninth package of EU sanctions against Russia.. Among other things, this package complements the EU's total ban on oil imports from Russia across the sea, which came into force this week, as well as the restriction on world oil prices agreed by the G7 countries..