Russia adds 29 U.S. citizens to stop list, including Meta co-founder Zuckerberg, Vice President Harris
MOSCOW. April 21 (Interfax) - Moscow has expanded the list of United States citizens banned from entering Russia to include 29 officials, businessmen, experts and journalists, including co-founder of Meta (recognized as extremist in Russia) Mark Zuckerberg and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
"In response to constantly expanding anti-Russian sanctions, which the Joe Biden Administration is imposing on a growing number of Russian citizens, both officials and their family members, as well as representatives of the business community, scientists and cultural figures, 29 Americans from among top leaders, businessmen, experts and journalists who shape the Russophobic agenda as well as the spouses of several senior officials are included in the 'stop list,'" a statement published on the Russian Foreign Ministry website on Thursday said.
Among those on the "stop list" are U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband Douglas Emhoff, Zuckerberg, and Bank of America Chairman Brian Moynihan.
The Russian list also included First Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks, Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Christopher Grady, and Department of Defense spokesperson John Kirby. White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klein, State Department spokesperson Ned Price, and Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine were also added to the blacklist.
The stop list also includes Secretary of State Antony Blinken's wife Evan Ryan, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan's wife Margaret Goodlander, and Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland's husband Robert Kagan.
Additionally, a number of executives of U.S. defense and industrial companies are on the list: Kathy Warden (Northrop Grumman Corporation), Phebe Novakovic (General Dynamics), Michael Petters (Huntington Ingalls Industries), William Brown (L3Harris Technologies), Wahid Nawabi (AeroVironment), Roger Krone (Leidos), Horacio Rozanski (Booz Allen Hamilton), Eileen Drake (Aerojet Rocketdyne).
Also included on the stop list are Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies head David Deptula, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky, ABC host George Stephanopoulos, Deputy Director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security Matthew Kroenig, and experts of the Woodrow Wilson Center David Ignatius, Eddy Acevedo, and Kevin Rothrock (the latter is also the editor-in-chief of the English-language edition of Meduza, a media outlet designated as a foreign agent in Russia), and CNN analyst Bianna Golodryga.
These individuals are banned from entering Russia indefinitely, and a new announcement of another update to the Russian stop list as countermeasures to the hostile actions of the U.S. authorities will follow shortly, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.