It seems German AOR legends Scorpions have declined to play in Crimea. I guess even they would have balked at playing Winds of Change there, given the current political climate:
RFE/RL's news desk has some more details on the Russian customs authorities' push to impose tougher punishments for breaking food sanctions:
Russian customs officials have drafted a bill that calls for prison sentences for those who violate the country's retaliatory sanctions on Western food imports.
The draft bill, published on August 20 by the Federal Customs Service, calls for banned foreign foods to be listed as "strategically imported" -- a label currently reserved for radioactive nuclear materials and poisons.
The legislation would stiffen penalties against those found guilty of smuggling banned food from the European Union, the United States, and other blacklisted countries.
It would allow authorities to file criminal charges, with prison terms of up to seven years, against individuals and companies found guilty of smuggling.
For organized groups smuggling large amounts of banned foods, the punishment would be up to 12 years in prison.
The Kremlin's food bans were imposed in 2014 in retaliation for Western sanctions that were imposed against Russia over Moscow's illegal annexation of Crimea and its support for pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
(AP, TASS, Interfax)
It seems the Russian customs authorities almost literally want to "go nuclear" on food sanctions:
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has cancelled the diplomatic passports of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and 88 other former officials.
According to the ministry’s statement, these persons were no longer eligible to use their diplomatic passports and failed to return the documents back to the ministry as required by law.
Azarov fled to Russia following the Euromaidan protests that toppled the government in February 2014. The Ukrainian prosecutor's office is preparing a package of documents to ask for Azarov’s extradition. In Ukraine he is accused of abuse of power while in office.
Heorhiy Tuka, the head of Luhansk Oblast military-civilian administration, published a list of facilities in the region that will be restored on the $1.8 million given to the local government by Japan.
According to Tuka, the money will be spent on restoration and modernization of hospitals, orphanages, nursing homes, bridges and other facilities in those Luhansk towns and villages that are currently under control of the Ukrainian government.
“In the name of all residents of the Oblast, I sincerely thank the government of Japan for their assistance,” Tuka wrote on Facebook.