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In response to a new round of US sanctions, Russia has announced that it is banning 500 Americans from entering the country, including former president Barack Obama and comedian Stephen Colbert.
The list released by the Foreign Ministry did not specify complaints against each individual. But the ministry said the offences included spreading Russophobia, supplying Ukraine with arms, and officials “who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called ‘storm of the Capitol’.”
The ban includes 45 members of the US House, Senators JD Vance, Katie Britt and Eric Schmitt, and former ambassadors to Russia John Tefft and Jon Huntsman.
The ministry said it had also denied a US request for consular access to Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was arrested in late March and charged with espionage.
The ministry said that was in response to the United States denying visas to Russian journalists who wanted to cover Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to the United Nations last month.
The latest sanctions aimed at Russia include tighter restrictions on already-sanctioned people and companies involved in the war effort.
The financial penalties have been primarily focused on sanctions evaders connected to technology procurement for the Kremlin.
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