That Russia impose penalties 25 US citizens including American actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller in response to US sanctions. This emerges from a press release published on Monday by the Russian Foreign Ministry. “As a countermeasure to the ever-expanding government sanctions [président américain] Joe Biden against Russian citizens, a travel ban to the Russian Federation is imposed on an additional group of people, including members of the United States Congress, senior officials, representatives of business and experts, and cultural figures (25 people)‘ comes from the communiqué of Russian diplomacy.

The names of the US citizens who are on the Russian blacklist are published on the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This list also includes actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller. Moreover, Moscow emphasizes that Washington’s hostile actions will continue to receive a firm response. “The hostile actions of the US authorities, which continue down a Russophobic path, destroying bilateral relations and intensifying the confrontation between Russia and the United States, will continue to receive a firm response.“, says the press release.

It should be remembered that, in retaliation, Russia had already blacklisted 25 American citizens defending a Russophobic agenda last June. Among them were relatives of US President Joe Biden and the famous political scientist Franz Fukuyama, Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Last May, the Russian Federation announced it had sanctioned 26 Canadians. The country announced that it would soon impose new sanctions.

“A similar category of Canadian citizens will be barred from entering the country in response to a new round of sanctions imposed on Russia by Canadian authorities, targeting not only Russian leaders but also, in some cases, the family members of blacklisted individuals permanently denied to Russia“, we can read in a press release from the Russian Foreign Ministry published during may according to the report of the Russian news Agency TASS.