- Russia has banned the travel of several senior US business leaders, journalists and officials.
- Russia’s foreign ministry has said the sanctioned individuals will be denied entry indefinitely.
- The travel ban is unlikely to have a significant impact on Mark Zuckerberg or others on the list.
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Russia banned Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and 28 other prominent Americans from traveling on Thursday.
The sanctions were imposed in retaliation for Western sanctions against Russia for its attack on Ukraine. The travel ban includes senior Pentagon officials, U.S. business leaders and journalists, including U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslanski and ABC reporter George Stefanopoulos.
Russia’s foreign ministry said individuals would be denied entry “indefinitely,” according to an Insider translation of the ministry’s press release. The ministry said it had identified people as responsible for shaping the “Russophobic agenda” in the United States, according to a translation.
The sanction is unlikely to have a significant impact on Zuckerberg or anyone else, other than preventing them from visiting Russia.
It should be noted that the list of sanctions does not include the names of other top US business leaders such as Twitter CEO Parag Agraval or Google CEO Sundar Pichai, although Twitter and YouTube have been active in tackling Russian disinformation.
Several of the sanctioned reporters on the list commented on Russia’s ban on travel on social media.
“Something funny happened to me on the way to work today,” tweeted Kevin Rothrock, a Connecticut-based managing editor of Medusa’s news site covering Russia, shortly after he was added to the list on Thursday.
“I get a lot of ‘congratulations’ on that,” tweeted Mark McKinnon, a senior international correspondent for The Globe and Mail, about the sanction against him. “But for me, this is a really sad day. I loved my time in Russia and found many friends there (although many have left). I have always tried to report honestly about the country. I guess that was a problem. “
Meta and LinkedIn spokesmen did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication.
Russia sanctioned US President Joe Biden last month and later announced a new round of sanctions against 398 members of Congress.
Earlier, Russia banned Zuckerberg’s Facebook and Instagram platforms and called them “extremist” organizations. LinkedIn has been blocked in Russian since 2017.
Translations by Alexander Vinogradov.
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