Russia specifies ‘black list’ of officials who cannot enter the country

US President Joe Biden heads the list for the Russian government. Photo: EFE

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia specified this Saturday, May 21, 2022, that its ‘black list’ of senior American officials who have been prohibited from entering the country amounts to 963 affected, starting with the president of USAJoe Bide, as already announced in March, the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin or the director of the CIA, William Burns.

“In the context of the response to the ongoing anti-Russian sanctions and in connection with the incoming consultations on the composition of our list the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia has published the registry of American citizens who are permanently prohibited from entering the Russian Federation, ”according to the statement collected by the TASS agency.

The list, a retaliation for US sanctions against the Russian invasion of Ukrainealso includes the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, the leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, as well as other congressmen and senators, the majority of the Democratic Party, such as Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez.

Also included in the text is President Biden’s son, Hunter, a former director of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma and accused by the republican oppositionto incur an alleged “conflict of interest” by carrying out these activities when his father was vice president of the United States.

“We want to emphasize”, adds the statement, “that the hostile actions undertaken by Washington they will act like a boomerang against them, and they will continue to receive the appropriate pushback from Russia.”

“Russia does not seek confrontation and is open to honest and mutually respectful dialogue, separating the american peoplewhich invariably enjoys our respect, from the American authorities, who incite Russophobia”, he concludes.

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