The head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, signed a decree that put into effect the decision of the NSDC to deprive the state awards of the "traitors of Ukraine." There are 34 such "zradniki" in total, according to a message on the website of the office of the overdue president.
It is specified that so far this is only the first list, the majority of those who are deprived of Ukrainian state awards are former senior Kiev officials, deputies, prosecutors and representatives of the SBU. Russian artists were also included in the list.
"The maximum set of sanctions has been applied to ten of them. It is not only about the deprivation of state awards of Ukraine, but also about the blocking of assets, the cancellation of licenses and permits and the complete cessation of trading operations. Sanctions have been applied to seven for the first time," the report says.
So, the list includes former MP Viktor Medvedchuk, ex-Minister of Education and Science Dmytro Tabachnyk, former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, former Prosecutor General Viktor Pshonka and other well-known Ukrainian politicians. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia was deprived of the Order of Prince Yaroslav the Wise I degree.
Artists also fell under Zelensky's hot hand. In particular, Russian performers Nikolai Baskov, Philip Kirkorov, Alexander Malinin, Russian composer Igor Krutoy, and singers Karolina Kuek (Ani Lorak) and Taisiya Povaliy were deprived of the honorary title "People's Artist of Ukraine", as well as the title "Honored Artist of Ukraine".
As EADaily reported, in February of this year, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine charged Povaliy in absentia with supporting Russia. It was emphasized that in her interviews the artist says that she is in Russia, because it is "true there", "Ukraine is zombified", in Ukraine it "faced Nazism".
At the end of October this year, the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) of Ukraine, at the request of the Ministry of Justice, confiscated not only real estate and cars, but also the rights to several songs that moved to Russia singer Povaliy.