Moscow bans '500 Americans' from Russia including CNN journalists
Source: CNN
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. While the list was labelled, “500 Americans,” Paton Walsh is a British citizen. The ministry justified the bans in a statement on its website that read: “It is high time for Washington to learn that not a single hostile attack against Russia will go without a strong reaction.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/19/europe/russia-bans-american-citizens-obama-intl/index.html
The comedians on the list are going to have a field day with this!
This solidifies the GOP-Russia connection!
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They are just parroting each other. Even Tass rattled its sword but produced no "list". 
But it's in Russian. It'll be out sooner or later, tho'.
I was hoping someone had it and it was a matter of getting it translated. Someone seems to be doing that because different news sources have sprinkled different additional names in their reports.
Their link goes to a Russian site and at least the groupings are alphabetical. I spotted "Sarah Huckabee Sanders", which was interesting! 
ETA link to Mediaite's article - https://www.mediaite.com/news/read-the-bizarre-list-of-americans-from-rachel-maddow-to-jan-6th-prosecutors-that-are-now-banned-from-russia/ (which has the link to the list)
Yes, I did notice other names across sites. But Sarah Huckabee Sanders? Weird.
and they wrote that these latest "500" had brought the total up to something like 1842 (or thereabouts) of Americans who were "banned". I haven't seen that list either, but given one of the people on their current list was not an American citizen but was a British citizen, then who knows how many are "valid" American ban-ees on any of their lists...
I'm not sure why he's on it. He's a retired Army Colonel and served as an SES following retirement and is now an author. I also have met several others on the list professionally but don't necessarily know them well.
Maybe I'll make the next list if I just try a little harder. 
Edited to add: the person I know is apparently tagged because of his ties to RAND.
had issued a "Level 4: Do Not Travel" advisory (last updated this past February, and I expect it has been up since the invasion.
Agree that anyone attempting it would most likely be subject to "kidnapping" and detention for some kind of trumped up charge. 
They're punishing any and all Americans for our government's support of Ukraine. That's all they've got. And you know that I've been to Russia - with my grandmother and her peace group. I can't help wondering what the status of that group is now - and the relationship they currently have with their "sister town." 
might have been willing to "wait it out" but things have gotten worse and there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. So the relationships damage might take a long time to reconcile.
And it was quite a trip, they were so welcoming. The mayor was there, we brought gifts for him and his wife. We visited the school, met with the principal and visited and sang with an English class. I still get choked up remembering when the school doors burst open and the children came running out carrying bouquets of flowers to present to each of us. And one older lady invited the group into her nearby home - and she became my grandmother's pen pal (though she required a translator). And I later learned that this elderly lady was the town's official "head of the Communist Party..." 
Even if you live in a city, you can often be isolated from others visiting from other countries, so having those interactions is paramount. And having a pen pal used to be a big thing. It's definitely a blast from the past.
Nowadays people can just videochat with just about anyone around the world (assuming their country allows it). 
And I was the youngest member - by a few decades - so I only know of one other member who took that trip who is still with us. And I've often thought of giving her a call. This was the "sister town" of Black Mountain, NC, where my grandmother joined a retirement community. And this was such a great group, experienced world travelers and activists, I got to know and love them all. I have wondered so often what they would think of what's happening now. It's heartbreaking.
That term has been out there for so long and I hesitated using it but it just blurted out.
(you see me now just refer to him as "45" )
Banned by the Genocidal War Criminal Maniacs. 
I don't think Pres Obama was planning on going to Russia, anyway.
Any place that won't take Obama is a place I would not go to either!
because they might not be allowed to come back for a while. On second thought, our Republicans should go visit. I hear Russia is great this time of year. 
