In response to a new US sanctions package against Russia, Moscow has imposed a travel ban on 500 US citizens. Former US President Barack Obama is also on the list at position 268, alongside other current and former politicians.
This is in response to the “regular anti-Russian sanctions” of US President Joe Biden’s administration, designed to inflict maximum damage on Russia, the State Department said in Moscow on Friday.
The list also includes “heads of companies of the military-industrial complex that supply weapons to the Kiev regime”.
G7 summit in Hiroshima: New sanctions against Russia
Just before the start of the G7 summit in Japan, the US announced a new package of sanctions against Russia for its offensive war against Ukraine. Among other things, the plan is to cut off some 70 companies and organizations from Russia and other countries from U.S. exports, a senior U.S. government official said. In addition, more than 300 persons, companies and organizations, ships and aircraft will be subject to other punitive measures.
Russia blacklists Greenpeace
Meanwhile, Russia has declared Greenpeace an “undesirable organization”. The organization has attempted to interfere in the state’s internal affairs and engaged in anti-Russian propaganda by calling for sanctions against Russia, the prosecutor’s office said on Friday. This effectively prohibits Greenpeace’s further activities in Russia. The Russian branch of the environmental organization then announced that it would stop working in the country.
The attorney general’s decision made any Greenpeace activity in Russia illegal, it said. “That is why the Russian branch of Greenpeace is forced to close.”
Russia had already filed a criminal case against Greenpeace activists in 2013. The background was an attempt to board an oil rig belonging to the state energy giant Gazprom in the Arctic Ocean to protest oil production in the Arctic.
In addition, environmental activists from Greenpeace tried last year to prevent a tanker from delivering Russian oil to Norway. According to the environmental organization, the activists chained themselves to the ship in protest against the Russian war in Ukraine. According to the company, the tanker was located in front of the Exxon Mobile oil terminal about 70 kilometers south of Oslo.
Source: Krone
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