The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday Announced A new set of sanctions against 92 American nationals, including more than 20 journalists.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said the roughly 100 people on the list would be “permanently denied entry into Russia” and that the sanctions were a “response to the Biden administration's Russophobic policy, which has the clear goal of 'inflicting a strategic defeat on Moscow.'”
The ministry said the announcement was also a response to U.S. “comprehensive sanctions” against politicians and members of the social elite with ties to the Russian government.
The list of US citizens includes US government officials, pro-democracy activists, academics and executives of defense contractors and financial institutions that are supplying arms to Ukraine in response to Russia's war on the country.
Referring to the journalists on the list, the statement said the roster includes “employees and reporters from major liberal globalist media outlets involved in fabricating and spreading false claims about Russia and its military, and using propaganda to cover Washington's hybrid war.”
Among the journalists on the list is Emma Tucker, editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, who has been a vocal critic of Moscow and has called for the return of journalist Evan Gershkovich, who was finally released in a prisoner swap earlier this month.
The list also includes 13 current or former Wall Street Journal employees, including the paper's deputy editor, head of world news, Kiev bureau chief, former Moscow bureau chief and a member of the editorial board.
Also on the list were five reporters from The New York Times, four from The Washington Post and several from British newspapers.
The Hill has not independently confirmed whether the 92 people on the list are American citizens, as the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Sanctions are list More than 2,000 Americans have already been banned from entering the country, including a number of US politicians.
State Department Spokesperson be criticized In a statement to The New York Times, he expressed concern about Russia's “increasing attempts to restrict freedom of expression and freedom of the press in Russia.”
“We condemn in the strongest possible terms the Kremlin's continuing attempts to intimidate, suppress and punish independent journalists and civil society voices, including the use of censorship laws to punish criticism of Russia's brutal war in Ukraine,” the spokesman said.
