Britain imposed sanctions against Brilev, Zharov and Rossiya Segodnya

London has included in the sanctions lists representatives of state-owned media, including the Rossiya Segodnya agency, Sputnik and the TV-Novosti company, which, according to the British Foreign Office,owner of RT Sergey Brilev

The UK imposed sanctions against journalist and citizen of the United Kingdom Sergey Brilev, Gazprom-Media CEO Alexander Zharov and the Rossiya Segodnya state agency, the list of sanctioned persons is published on the website of the British government.

The sanctions list also includes the TV-Novosti organization, which owns the RT brand.

“The HEAD of the Foreign Ministry added 14 individuals and organizations to the sanctions list that represent Russian propaganda and state media that spread lies and deceit about [Vladimir] Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement published on the agency’s website.

The full list of sanctioned individuals and companies:

TV-Novosti is the company that controls the RT channel, Rossiya Segodnya is a media group owned, according to the British Foreign Office, by the Russian government and controlling the state news agency Sputnik, Sergey Brilev is a journalist, author of the Vesti on Saturday program on the TV channel RUSSIA 1", Mikhail Mizintsev - Colonel General, head of the National Defense Control Center of Russia, conducts regular briefings on the progress of the special operation in Ukraine, Alexander Zharov - CEO of Gazprom-Media, which, according to the British Foreign Office, owns the NTV channel, Alexei Nikolov is the CEO of the RT TV channel (former RussiaToday), Anton Anisimov is the editor-in-chief of the Sputnik agency, before that he worked for RT and in Rossiya Segodnya, Vladimir Maksimenko is the DIRECTOR of the English-language online publication Strategic Culture Foundation registered in Russia, Andrey Areshev is the director of the Strategic Culture Foundation, Irina Bubnova is the editor social media at the Strategic Culture Foundation, Anton Bespalov - social media editor at the Strategic Culture Foundation, Sergey Saenko - employee of the Strategic Culture Foundation, responsible for the work of the publication in social media, Natalya Skorokhodova - employee of the Strategic Culture Foundation, responsible for personnel and finances in the publication, Svetlana Zamlelova is the editor-in-chief of the literary and historical magazine Kamerton, which, according to the British Foreign Office, is associated with the Strategic Culture Foundation.