Barack Obama has been barred from entering Russia.
May 19, 2023Tweet
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Friday published a list of 500 US
citizens, including former president Barack Obama, who are banned from
entering the country with immediate effect. The move is a response to
the ongoing American sanctions against Moscow. The list includes many
members of Congress, governors and attorney-generals of several US
states, former officials currently on boards of prominent think tanks,
military contractors who supply weapons to Ukraine, and even the short
lived “disinformation czar” Nina Jankowicz. The list also includes US
Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves, his predecessor
Michael Sherwin, DC Attorney General Karl Racine, and Michael Byrd, the
Capitol Police officer who fatally shot unarmed protester Ashli Babbitt.
TV hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Rachel Maddow, and
Joe Scarborough were also among the sanctioned, along with former NBC
presenter Brian Williams.
Secretaries of the Army and the Air Force, Christine Wormuth and Frank
Kendall, and USAF Chief of Staff General Charles Q. Brown Jr. made the
list, but think tanks and the military-industrial complex made the bulk
of the list Former Secretary of Defense and Marine general James Mattis
was sanctioned for being on the board of General Dynamics, former US
ambassador to Russia John Tefft was sanctioned as a senior fellow at
RAND Corporation, Nelson Strobridge “Strobe” Talbot III and Norm Eisen
were sanctioned for their involvement with the Brookings Institute, and
senior Russia and Eurasia researcher Eric Ciaramella was among the many
Carnegie Foundation employees on the sanctions list. Other prominent
names on the Russian blacklist included Ukraine’s former finance
minister Natalie Jaresko and former Russia expert at the National
Security Council Fiona Hill.
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