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For: Real America News Updated 21 Apr 2022, 14: 04 pm EDT
Russia responded to the United States with a new batch of individual sanctions against almost thirty officials, businessmen and journalists , including the US Vice President, Kamala Harris, and the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.
Those included in the list, which also includes spouses of high-ranking US officials, will not be able to enter Russian territory for creating “a Russophobic agenda,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Senior Pentagon officials were also included in the list, such as Undersecretary of Defense, Kathleen Hicks, and the spokesperson, John Kirby; or the White House Chief of Staff, Ron Klain.
Spouses include Evan Ryan, wife of Secretary of State Antony Blinken; or Douglas Emhoff, husband of Harris.
The list includes businessmen such as the CEO of Linkedin, Ryan Roslansky, and experts such as Edward Acevedo, of the Wilson Center.
Among the sanctioned journalists, Bianna Golodryga stands out from CNN; ABC’s George Stephanopoulos; or Kevin Rothrock from the Russian portal Meduza.
The Foreign Ministry statement states that it will shortly announce a new battery of countermeasures for the “hostile actions of the US authorities.”
On Wednesday EE .USA announced sanctions against a network of 21 individuals and companies, led by Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev, who is allegedly helping Russia dodge Western sanctions over Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine.
The Russian commercial bank Transcapitalbank and the Russian cryptocurrency company Bitriver, as well as ten of their subsidiaries, have also been sanctioned, the Treasury Department detailed in a statement.
Other of the sanctioned companies is Tsargrad, a Russian propaganda tool that Maloféyev allegedly uses to act as an intermediary between the Kremlin and pro-Russian politicians in Europe.
In turn, the US Department of State will restrict visas to 635 Russian citizens.
US President Joe Bi den, announced today that he will ban Russian ships from docking in the country’s ports, while unveiling a new package of military assistance to Ukraine worth 800 millions of dollars.
Russia already sanctioned a week ago to 398 members of the US House of Representatives, who adopted the same measure against 328 deputies of the Duma or lower house of the Russian Parliament.
With information from Efe.
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