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Ruslan Drobyazko

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In the sphere of internet regulation, the current Ukrainian government has been more active in the past months than all former Ukrainian governments together in the past 20 years. At the beginning of May, the law establishing the first ever Ukrainian secondary liability regime for third-party copyright infringement came into force. Later that same month, the President of Ukraine approved a decree ordering ISPs to block access to a number of popular Russian online services…

On May 16, 2017, the Ukrainian President signed Presidential Decree No. 133/2017 which introduces sanctions against 1228 individuals and 468 legal entities.The Decree has received unprecedented public attention because it establishes restrictive measures (sanctions) against Russian IT companies and their Ukrainian subsidiaries. Such companies/subsidiaries are popular among Ukrainians and provide services such as social networks, a search engine, a navigation service, accounting software, antivirus solutions, and more.The sanctions are based on Article 4 of the…