On August 9, the Supreme Court of Ukraine opened a proceeding to review the decision of the High Administrative Court of Ukraine, which denied Ukrainian citizen Vadym Hladun and the NGO 'Independent Bar' in considering a lawsuit into repealing President Poroshenko's decree banning Russian social networks in Ukraine.

"Open the proceedings into the case on the lawsuit of Person 1 [Hladun] and the NGO 'Independent Bar' to President of Ukraine Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko on recognizing partially illegal and repealing the decree to be reviewed by the Supreme Court of Ukraine of the Ukrainian High Administrative Court's decision dated June 29, 2017," the decision of Judge Oleksandr Prokopenko, which is posted in the Unified State Register of Judicial Decisions, reads.

The judge also ruled to request the case from the Supreme Court of Ukraine.

Ukraine's Supreme Court handed back their claim to Hladun and 'Independent Bar' against the president on July 29.

As reported, on June 14, the Supreme Court of Ukraine refused to satisfy the claim of the Ukrainian citizen, a student of the National University Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Mykyta Yevstifeyev, to Poroshenko about recognizing as unauthorized the decree prohibiting Russian social networks and a number of other Internet websites in Ukraine.

The judicial panel of the Ukrainian Supreme Court refused to recognize a number of the presidential decrees as illegal and ineffective dated May 15 on the enactment of the decision of the National Security and Defense Council dated April 28, 2017 "On the application of personal special economic and other restrictive measures (sanctions)."

The Ukrainian president's decree imposing sanctions on the social networking sites VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, and also the companies Mail.ru, Yandex and their services took effect on Wednesday. User access to all Yandex and Mail.ru services has been banned for three years.