Russia has completely prohibited almost 1,000 UnitedStates residents from goinginto the nation — consistingof the star Morgan Freeman.
On Saturday (21 May), the nation’s foreign ministry launched a list of 963 American people who are disallowed from takingatrip to the nation over their assistance of US-imposed “anti-Russian sanctions” a little ahead of 3 months into Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine.
The “stop list” consistsof UnitedStates president Joe Biden, vice president Kamala Harris, reporters, departed legislators, Freeman and fellow star and filmmaker Rob Reiner, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.
In a news release, the ministry stated: “In the context of reaction to the continuously enforced anti-Russian sanctions by the United States and in connection with inbound demands about the individual structure of our nationwide ‘stop list’, the Russian Foreign Ministry releases a list of American people who are completely prohibited from gettingin the Russian Federation.”
The factor for disallowing Academy Award winner Freeman — explained as a “well-known star” by Russia — supposedly dates back to September 2017 when the 84-year-old “recorded a video message implicating Russia of conspiring versus the United States and calling for a battle versus our nation”.
Freeman had told a PSA for the Committee to Investigate Russia, a group which was set up to develop awareness about Moscow’s disturbance in the UnitedStates governmental election which saw Hillary Clinton lose to Donald Trump in November 2016.
In it, Freeman stated: “We haveactually been assaulted. We are at war. Imagine this motionpicture script: a previous KGB spy, mad at the collapse of his motherland, plots a course for vengeance. Taking benefit of the turmoil, he works his method up through the ranks of a post-Soviet Russia and endsupbeing president.
“He develops an authoritarian program, then he sets his sights on his sworn opponent: the United States.”
The Independent has reached out to Freeman’s agents for remark.
Reiner’s restriction is supposedly over him being “one of the developers of the Internet resource Investigate Russia (investigaterussia.com)”.
The director of A Few Good Men founded the now-disbanded Committee and is noted amongst the not-for-profit organisation’s board of directors.
Other popular names on the “stop list” consistof US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi, Texas senator Ted Cruz, Democrat House agent Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez, president Joe Biden’s child Hunter, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, ABC News’s George Stephanopoulous and a number of UnitedStates senators who are in reality departed, consistingof John McCain, Harry M Reid and Orrin G Hatch.
In its declaration, Russia’s foreign ministry stated it was “open to truthful, equally considerate discussion, separating the American individuals who are constantly appreciated by us, from the UnitedStates authorities who prompt Russophobia, and those who serve them”.
According to the Washington Post report, the “black list” consistsof UnitedStates people from “all strolls of life”, consistingof an LGBT+ activist, rabbis and a Yale University teacher.
Former president Donald Trump doesn’t function on this list of prohibited Americans — however it does consistof previous vice president Mike Pence.
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Russia has completely prohibited almost 1,000 UnitedStates residents from goinginto the nation — consistingof the star Morgan Freeman.
On Saturday (21 May), the nation’s foreign ministry launched a list of 963 American people who are disallowed from takingatrip to the nation over their assistance of US-imposed “anti-Russian sanctions” a little ahead of 3 months into Russia’s intrusion of Ukraine.
The “stop list” consistsof UnitedStates president Joe Biden, vice president Kamala Harris, reporters, departed legislators, Freeman and fellow star and filmmaker Rob Reiner, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.
In a news release, the ministry stated: “In the context of reaction to the continuously enforced anti-Russian sanctions by the United States and in connection with inbound demands about the individual structure of our nationwide ‘stop list’, the Russian Foreign Ministry releases a list of American people who are completely prohibited from gettingin the Russian Federation.”
The factor for disallowing Academy Award winner Freeman — explained as a “well-known star” by Russia — supposedly dates back to September 2017 when the 84-year-old “recorded a video message implicating Russia of conspiring versus the United States and calling for a battle versus our nation”.
Freeman had told a PSA for the Committee to Investigate Russia, a group which was set up to develop awareness about Moscow’s disturbance in the UnitedStates governmental election which saw Hillary Clinton lose to Donald Trump in November 2016.
In it, Freeman stated: “We haveactually been assaulted. We are at war. Imagine this motionpicture script: a previous KGB spy, mad at the collapse of his motherland, plots a course for vengeance. Taking benefit of the turmoil, he works his method up through the ranks of a post-Soviet Russia and endsupbeing president.
“He develops an authoritarian program, then he sets his sights on his sworn opponent: the United States.”
The Independent has reached out to Freeman’s agents for remark.
Reiner’s restriction is supposedly over him being “one of the developers of the Internet resource Investigate Russia (investigaterussia.com)”.
The director of A Few Good Men founded the now-disbanded Committee and is noted amongst the not-for-profit organisation’s board of directors.
Other popular names on the “stop list” consistof US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi, Texas senator Ted Cruz, Democrat House agent Alexandria Ocasia-Cortez, president Joe Biden’s child Hunter, Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg, ABC News’s George Stephanopoulous and a number of UnitedStates senators who are in reality departed, consistingof John McCain, Harry M Reid and Orrin G Hatch.
In its declaration, Russia’s foreign ministry stated it was “open to truthful, equally considerate discussion, separating the American individuals who are constantly appreciated by us, from the UnitedStates authorities who prompt Russophobia, and those who serve them”.
According to the Washington Post report, the “black list” consistsof UnitedStates people from “all strolls of life”, consistingof an LGBT+ activist, rabbis and a Yale University teacher.
Former president Donald Trump doesn’t function on this list of prohibited Americans — however it does consistof previous vice president Mike Pence.
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