Russia announced Monday that it would permanently bar 25 Americans from entering its territory, including cultural figures such as director Sean Penn and actor Ben Stiller.
As specified by the Russian Foreign Ministry in a press release published on its website, this decision was made “in response to the increasingly extensive sanctions of the Joe Biden administration against Russian citizens.”
In addition to the two actors, the list of 25 personalities also includes members of the United States Congress, high-ranking officials, politicians, and members of the administration of the President of the United States.
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Among those banned from entering Russia, actor and director Sean Penn, who traveled to Kyiv at the end of June, in the midst of the Russian offensive in the country, to make a documentary about the conflict and show his support for the Ukrainian president. Volodymyr Zelensky.
Also on the list is actor Ben Stiller, star of Zoolanderwho also visited the Ukrainian capital in June.
“The hostile actions of the US authorities, which continue to take a Russophobic direction, thus destroying bilateral ties and intensifying the confrontation between Russia and the United States, will continue to be firmly repelled,” the Russian diplomacy said in the statement.
At the end of June, Russia announced that it would ban the wife and daughter of US President Joe Biden from entering the territory after Washington sanctioned members of Vladimir Putin’s family, in particular his two daughters, and the Russian president himself. . Joe Biden is banned from Russia.
Source: BFM TV
