MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has placed a U.S. lawmaker and 12 other people connected with the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq on its list of those banned from entering the country.
In a statement Saturday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said congressman Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia, was banned in response to the July 2 U.S. ban on Russian parliament member Adam Delimkhanov. He said Moran had been repeatedly accused of financial misdeeds but did not elaborate.
The other 12, including Guantanamo commander Rear Adm. Richard Butler and Lynndie England, a former soldier convicted of abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib, were banned in response to the United States’ adding 12 names in May to the so-called Magnitsky List of Russians sanctioned for human rights abuses.
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I am sure that they are so disappointed at not being able to enter Pootie-Poot’s Russia
Lynndie England’s trip to study baroque oil paintings in the Hermitage is cancelled, I suppose.
But really… is it likely that anyone of these people on either side are inconvenienced by this?
Well, there goes Congressman Moran’s plans for a dacha near Yekaterinburg…
You’re talking Romanovs, you sly dog.
Ha ha ha ha ha! There, see? Amerika has evildoers as well! They are just as bad as we are and totally hypocritical for trying to keep us from helping the poor innocent Russian victims of facism in Ukraine!
Weak. Amateur hour. They’re so deep in their own bullshit bubble that the really believe this will be seen as a major propaganda victory in the rest of the world.
No wonder Fox Republicans are so enthralled by Putin.