How important is the Resolution of the deputies?

Proposals on personal sanctions were periodically considered by the Verkhovna Rada (resolutions № 2571 of 2015, № 3778 of 2016, № 4825 of 2016 or № 5724 of 2016 can be mentioned), but only one the decision on such proposals was supported. This is Resolution № 9157 of 2018, in which MPs proposed to impose sanctions against seven Ukrainian legal entities (in particular, against the channel "112-TV", etc.). As it turns out, the National Security and Defense Council will support the proposal of deputies, but only in February 2021. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov will add that the mentioned Resolution from 2018 became the basis for the sanctions.

Despite the rich practice, the latest Resolution with proposals for personal sanctions on Dzhelyalov's list is qualitatively different from previous versions. First, the main grounds for imposing sanctions are the facts of human rights violations against TOT Crimea, in particular the political persecution of one of the participants in the Crimean platform - Nariman Dzhelyalov. Thus, the outlined sanctions steps of the Ukrainian parliament are a reflection of the EU and US sanctions programs, which impose sanctions for human rights violations under the Magnitsky regime.

Secondly, for the first time, Ukrainian parliamentarians tried to prepare sanctions proposals with proper justification and detailed circumstances of the events that led to the arrest of Nariman Dzhelyalov and his associates. Currently, one of the structural problems of the domestic sanctions policy is the lack of grounds for official decisions on sanctions. This is due to both problematic regulation and the practice of the National Security and Defense Council, which does not support its own decisions with additional information (as do the relevant EU bodies). The draft Resolution of Sanctions on Dzhelyalov's list and accompanying documents contain information on the role, status and actions of persons involved in the persecution of Nariman Dzhelyalov. According to the authors of the Resolution, the sanctions should affect Vitaliy Vlasov, senior investigator of the FSS Office for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, Leonid Mykhailyuk, head of the FSS Office for the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, and judge of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Crimea. Agin and "Prosecutor of the Simferopol district of the Republic of Crimea" Sergei Zaitsev.

In December 2021, the Resolution on Sanctions on Dzhelyalov's List was approved by the Committee on Human Rights, Deoccupation and Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories in Donetsk, Luhansk Oblasts and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol and is soon to be considered and intelligence.