List of 54 Britons includes Guardian reporters and executives, a defence minister and the culture secretary
Russia has banned dozens of British journalists, media representatives and senior UK politicians from entering the country, including five Guardian journalists and executives, the foreign ministry said on Friday.on the foreign ministry’s website, Moscow said the sweeping action was a response to UK sanctions and the “spreading of false information about Russia”, as well as “London’s unrelenting military support for the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime”.
Russia also banned the culture secretary, Lucy Frazer, whom it accused of “lobbying for the international sports isolation of Russia”. Moscow has previously banned dozens of British journalists and media executives, including Katharine Viner, the editor-in-chief of the Guardian. The editors-in-chief of the Times, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Independent were also banned at the time.
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