UKRAINE’S post-coup government has blacklisted 14 Russian singers and actors, including recently-naturalised French immigrant Gerard Depardieu, for their political views.

The names were published on the Culture Ministry website on Saturday.

President Petro Poroshenko’s Western-backed regime claimed that they were a “threat to national security” for backing Crimea’s reunification with Russia last year and the anti-fascist rebels in the eastern Donbass region.

Songs and films by 14, including singer and MP Joseph Kobzon — known as “the Soviet Frank Sinatra” — and Mikhail Boyarsky, a Soviet-era film star, were banned from Ukrainian TV, radio and cinemas.

Under the move, Ukrainians will no longer be able to watch films such as Jean de Florette or the Oscar-nominated Cyrano de Bergerac.

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