Foreign Ministry bans Mark Zuckerberg and Kamala Harris from entering Russia Russia

banned the entry of 29 Americans for the formation of a "Russophobic agenda" and 61 Canadians - they were considered by the Foreign Ministry to be involved in the development of the "Russophobic course of the ruling regime in CANADA."Restriction imposed indefinitely Mark Zuckerberg

RUSSIA has imposed sanctions against the founder of the Meta company (recognized as extremist and banned in Russia) Mark Zuckerberg and US Vice President Kamala Harris, according to the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

“The “stop list” includes 29 Americans from among the top leaders, businessmen, experts and journalists who form the Russophobic agenda, as well as the spouses of a number of high-ranking officials,” the ministry said in a statement.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained this measure with "expanding anti-Russian sanctions", under which an increasing number of Russians fall. Persons who fell under Russian sanctions are denied entry to Russia "on an indefinite basis."

In total, there are 29 people on the sanctions list, in addition to Harris and Zuckerberg, it included:

Kathleen Hicks - First Deputy Secretary of Defense; Christopher Grady - Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; John Kirby - Deputy Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense Representative; Ronald Klein - White House Chief of Staff; Evan Ryan - Secretary of the President's Cabinet, wife of Secretary of State Anthony Blinken; Margaret Goodlander - Attorney General's Adviser, wife of National Security Assistant John Sullivan; Douglas Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris Robert Kagan - political scientist, husband of Senior Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland; Edward Price - State Department spokesman; Richard/Rachel Levine - Deputy Minister of HEALTH; Brian Moynihan - Chairman and CEO of Bank of America; Kathy Warden - President and CEO of Northrop Corporation; Phoebe Novakovich - President of General Dynamics; Michael Petters - President of Huntington Ingalls Industries; William Brown - President of L3Harris Technologies; Waheed Nawabi - President of AeroVironment; Roger Crown - President of Leidos; Horatio Rozansky - President of Booz Allen Hamilton; Eileen Drake - President of Aerojet Rocketdyne; David Deptula - HEAD of the Mitchell Institute of Aerospace Power Studies; Ryan Roslansky - CEO of the social network LinkedIn; George Stephanopoulos - ABC TV presenter; Matthew Kronig - Deputy DIRECTOR of the B. Scowcroft Center for Strategic Security NGO; David Ignatius - journalist, expert of the W. Wilson Center; Edward Acevedo - former member of the Illinois Legislature, expert at the W. Wilson Center; Kevin Rothrock, expert at the Wilson Center, editor-in-chief of the English-language version of the Meduza media portal (the Ministry of Justice has included the publication in the register of foreign media agents); Bianna Vitalievna Golodryga is a senior international analyst at CNN.

The Russian Foreign Ministry announced an imminent expansion of the list of persons who are prohibited from entering the country as part of a response to "hostile actions by the US authorities."

The EU has included in the sanctions list of businessmen Prigozhin and Kurchenko Politics

The Russian Foreign Ministry also announced sanctions against 61 Canadian citizens, these citizens were included in the list because "they are directly involved in the development, substantiation and implementation of the Russophobic course of the ruling regime in Canada."

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The sanctions list includes:

Cameron Ahmad - Director of Communications, Office of the Prime Minister of Canada; Steve Boivin - Commander of the Special Operations Forces of the Canadian Armed Forces, Major General; Jeremy Broadhurst - Senior Adviser to the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada; Shelley Bruce - Head of Canada's Communications Security Authority; Craig Baines - Commander of the Canadian Navy, Vice Admiral; Galina Vinnik - Chairman of the League of Ukrainian Women of Canada; David Vigno - Director of Security and Intelligence Canada; Terry Glavin - publicist; Balkan Devlen, Fellow of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute; Romeo Dellaire - former Senator of the Parliament of Canada; Ryan Deming - commander of the Trenton military base and the 8th air wing of the 1st aviation division of the Canadian Air Force, colonel; Luc-Frederic Gilbert - commander of the UNIFIER training mission in Ukraine; John Ivison - publicist; Martin Irman - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Canadian EXPORT Development Corporation; Jason Kenny - Premier of Alberta Brian Clow - Deputy Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Canada; Dan Costello - Adviser to the Prime Minister of Canada on foreign and defense policy; Frédéric Kote - Commander of the UNIFIER training mission from April to October 2019; Melanie Lake - Commander of the UNIFIER training mission from March to September 2021; Shuvaloy Majumdar, Fellow of the MacDonald-Laurier Institute; Sabrina Mado - publicist; Mark McKinnon is an international columnist for the Globe and Mail; Tiff Macklem - Chairman of the Bank of Canada; Roman Medic - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Fund Credit Union "Future"; Michael Melling is the head of the CTV News media concern; Borys Mykhaylets - Chairman of the League of Ukrainians of Canada; Scott Mo - Premier of Saskatchewan David Morrison - Deputy Minister of International Trade of Canada; Al Mainzinger - Commander of the Canadian Air Force, Lieutenant General; Kathy Nivyabandi is the CEO of Amnesty International Canada; Sandra Aube - Head of the Secretariat of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada; Robert Ochterlony - Commander of the Canadian Joint Operations Command, Vice Admiral; Mike Power - Head of the Secretariat of the Minister of National Defense of Canada; Alan Pelletier - Deputy Commander of the Joint US-Canadian Aerospace Defense Command of the North American Continent (NORAD), Lieutenant General; Robert Ray - Permanent Representative of Canada to the UN in New York; Michael Sabia - First Deputy Minister of Finance of Canada; Brian Santarpia - Commander of the Canadian Navy in the Atlantic Ocean, Rear Admiral; Jill Sinclair is Canada's representative to the Ukrainian Defense Ministry's Multinational Reform Advisory Council; Heather Stefanson - Premier of Manitoba Ryan Stimpson - Commander of the UNIFIER training mission from April to September 2020; Michel-Henri Saint-Louis - Acting Commander of the Canadian Land Forces, Major General; John Tory - Mayor of Toronto Patrick Travers is Senior Foreign Affairs Adviser to the Prime Minister's Office of Canada; Jeffrey Toop - Commander of the UNIFIER training mission from October 2019 to April 2020; Katherine Tate is President and CEO of the CBC Public Broadcasting Corporation; Kathy Telford - Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Canada; David Walmsley is editor-in-chief of the Globe and Mail; Jim Watson - Mayor of Ottawa Graham Flack - Head of the Secretariat of the Canadian Treasury Board; Douglas Ford - Premier of Ontario David Fraser - Major General of the Canadian Forces (retired); Michael Harris - publicist; Tasha Kheyriddin - publicist; Sara Heer - Commander of the UNIFIER training mission from September 2020 to March 2021; John Horgan - Premier of British Columbia Leslie Church - Chief of Staff to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Canada; Janice Sharett, Acting Clerk of the Privy Council and Cabinet Secretary of Canada; Richard Shimuka is a fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute; Chris Eklund - entrepreneur, project manager for recruiting Canadian citizens as mercenaries for the Armed Forces of Ukraine; Lloyd Axworthy is Chairman of the NGO World Refugee and Migration Council; Oz Jungic is Political Adviser to the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada.

“The principled line will be continued on the Russian side, which implies a resolute rebuff to the Russophobic actions of the official Ottawa, including the supply of weapons and connivance in sending mercenaries to Ukraine,” the Russian Foreign Ministry assured.

The ministry also threatened "Canadian curators of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the National Battalions" with responsibility for war crimes, which, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were committed by "their wards."

The Foreign Ministry announced the absence of plans to restrict entry for Ukrainians Politics

In mid-March, Russia banned US President Joe Biden, White House Representative Jen Psaki, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and nine other officials and politicians from entering the country.

“This step, taken as a counter reaction, was an inevitable consequence of the extremely Russophobic course taken by the current US administration,” the Russian Foreign Ministry explained.

The American authorities also imposed sanctions against the Russian leadership. On February 26, Washington announced restrictive measures against President Vladimir Putin, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov. Getting into the list provides for the freezing of assets in the United States, a ban on entry into American territory, as well as a ban on doing business with them for US citizens and companies. After that, the Russian Foreign Ministry assured that Putin and Lavrov did not have foreign accounts.

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