Country Bans Entry of Barack Obama
The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry announced the country has banned 500 U.S. citizens from entering its territory in response to the most recent sanctions.
Barack Obama is on the list of American citizens banned from entering Russia.
“Among them are not only ‘significant’ figures, including former US President B. Obama, but also current leaders of various levels of executive power, ex-officials like the White House curator for combating ‘Russian disinformation’ N. Yankovich, who were first elected at the November elections-2022, senators and congressmen, experts and employees of ‘analytical’ centers involved in the spread of Russophobic attitudes and fakes, as well as the heads of military-industrial complex companies that supply weapons to the regime in Kiev,” the statement read.
“The attached ‘list-500’ also includes those in government and law enforcement agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called. Storming the Capitol,” it added.
The list also includes political commentator Rachel Maddow and late-night host Stephen Colbert.
The Hill reported:
The Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry said in a Friday post on its website it is blocking entry for 500 Americans in response to the sanctions it said are designed to inflict the most damage possible on officials and civilians in Russia.
The list of banned individuals includes former officials, lawmakers from both parties who were elected to Congress during last year’s midterm elections and may have been missed in previous rounds, experts and analysts for centers the ministry said spread “Russophobic” attitudes, and companies that have supplied weapons to Ukraine to defend itself against Russia’s invasion.
The ministry said the list also includes individuals who have been involved in the “persecution of dissidents” who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, storming and riot at the Capitol.
“It is high time for Washington to learn that not a single hostile attack against Russia will be left without a strong reaction,” the post states. “The principle of the inevitability of punishment will be consistently applied, whether we are talking about tougher sanctions pressure or discriminatory steps to hinder the professional activities of our fellow citizens.”
The U.S. and other Western allies of Ukraine have placed sanctions on Russia numerous times since Russian forces began their full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year.
Names on the list also include Reps. Glenn Ivey (D-Md.) and Becca Balint (D-Vt.), Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), CNN anchor Erin Burnett, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D), California Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) and U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves.
Late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers and former NBC and MSNBC anchor Brian Williams are also banned.
Read the full list at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (translated): ATTACHED
The following is a list of names of US citizens who are included in the “stop list” on a permanent basis:
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