Major US Media Figures Included in Russia’s Most Recent Sanctions List
Moscow has imposed sanctions on an additional 92 American citizens, which include journalists from prominent outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and Washington Post. Read Full Article at RT.com
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The Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday that it has added 92 American citizens to its blacklist, which includes around two dozen journalists from major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian, and Daily Telegraph.
This travel ban is a reaction to what the ministry described as “blanket sanctions” imposed by the US and its allies on Russian politicians, business leaders, journalists, and cultural figures in light of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The ministry stated that the sanctions announced on Wednesday are a “response to the Russophobic course pursued by the Biden administration with the declared goal of inflicting a ‘strategic defeat’ on Moscow.”
The majority of those named on the blacklist are government officials and executives from military industrial firms like Huntington Ingalls Industries, Booz Allen Hamilton, Palantir, and Anduril.
However, the blacklist “also includes editorial staff and reporters of leading liberal-globalist publications involved in the production and dissemination of fake news about Russia and the Russian armed forces, and the propaganda cover for the ‘hybrid war’ unleashed by Washington,” according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Among those sanctioned, the Wall Street Journal has 13 editors and journalists listed, including editor in chief Emma Tucker. The New York Times has five on the list, followed by four from the Washington Post, and one each from the UK’s Telegraph and Guardian.
These sanctions follow recent reports of Western journalists accompanying Ukrainian forces on a cross-border operation in Russia’s Kursk Region. Moscow has also initiated a criminal case against two Italian journalists and CNN’s chief international security correspondent, Nick Paton Walsh.
The Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that it would continue to counter what it described as the “American ruling elite’s mad sanctions frenzy,” reminding current Washington officials “of the inevitability of punishment for hostile actions, whether it’s direct encouragement of [Vladimir] Zelensky and his henchmen to commit acts of aggression and terrorism or attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of Russia.”
Emily Johnson contributed to this report for TROIB News
This travel ban is a reaction to what the ministry described as “blanket sanctions” imposed by the US and its allies on Russian politicians, business leaders, journalists, and cultural figures in light of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The ministry stated that the sanctions announced on Wednesday are a “response to the Russophobic course pursued by the Biden administration with the declared goal of inflicting a ‘strategic defeat’ on Moscow.”
The majority of those named on the blacklist are government officials and executives from military industrial firms like Huntington Ingalls Industries, Booz Allen Hamilton, Palantir, and Anduril.
However, the blacklist “also includes editorial staff and reporters of leading liberal-globalist publications involved in the production and dissemination of fake news about Russia and the Russian armed forces, and the propaganda cover for the ‘hybrid war’ unleashed by Washington,” according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Among those sanctioned, the Wall Street Journal has 13 editors and journalists listed, including editor in chief Emma Tucker. The New York Times has five on the list, followed by four from the Washington Post, and one each from the UK’s Telegraph and Guardian.
These sanctions follow recent reports of Western journalists accompanying Ukrainian forces on a cross-border operation in Russia’s Kursk Region. Moscow has also initiated a criminal case against two Italian journalists and CNN’s chief international security correspondent, Nick Paton Walsh.
The Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that it would continue to counter what it described as the “American ruling elite’s mad sanctions frenzy,” reminding current Washington officials “of the inevitability of punishment for hostile actions, whether it’s direct encouragement of [Vladimir] Zelensky and his henchmen to commit acts of aggression and terrorism or attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of Russia.”
Emily Johnson contributed to this report for TROIB News
