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| Moscow bans ‘500 Americans' from Russia including CNN journalists |
| 2023-05-20 |
| In other news, 499 Americans and 1 Briton breathe a sigh of relief. [CNN] Former United States President Barack Obama, late night television host Stephen Colbert, and CNN’s Erin Burnett are some of the "500 Americans" Russia has banned from entering the country. Russia on Friday announced it was banning "500 Americans," many prominent figures of US executive power, from entering the country "in a response to the regularly anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the Joe Biden administration," according to a statement from Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The list includes Obama, former US Ambassador Jon Huntsman, several US senators and the next expected chairman of the joint chiefs Charles Q. Brown Jr. The rambling list of names also includes American late night TV hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert, and Seth Meyers. The statement also said: "The attached ’list-500’ also includes those in government and law enforcement agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called Storming the Capitol." On January 6, 2021, scores of supporters of former US President Donald Trump sought to stop Biden’s certification as president and attacked the US Capitol. Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to question the arrest of the rioters a few months later, saying the people had come to Congress "with political demands," Reuters reported. Friday’s list also includes CNN Anchor Erin Burnett and is an update of a previously published longer list of sanctioned individuals that includes CNN’s Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, CNN contributors Bianna Golodryga and Timothy Naftali. |
| Posted by:Enver Slager8035 |
| #6 Someone videoing Colbert in a Russian prison would get more views per episode than all of them combined. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-05-20 17:39 |
| #5 Not at all fair. I was hoping they would be permitted in, then Griner'd for several months. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-05-20 10:14 |
| #4 including CNN journalists also includes American late night TV hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert, and Seth Meyers. That's fair. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2023-05-20 10:11 |
| #3 That ain't nuthin'. At least in the West, we summarily confiscate private property from Russian citizens, disobeying the most common sense of property rights and also bar them from the SWIFT financial network. |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-05-20 09:17 |
| #2 ...But did they ban me? Nope. I may develop a complex. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2023-05-20 07:31 |
| #1 They used Americans and CNN journalist as two separate entities? Which would be correct. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-05-20 07:28 |