Russia imposed sanctions on 227 US citizens on the eve of the presidential election

The announcement was made a day before the start of voting in the Russian presidential election. Through them, Vladimir Putin will almost certainly win another six-year term in the Kremlin.

“227 Americans involved in the creation, implementation and justification of the Russophobic course of the current US administration are banned from entering the Russian Federation,” said a statement on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The new sanctions apply to some government officials, including State Department spokesman Matthew Miller.

The list also included several journalists, including The Washington Post and The New York Times, as well as the founder of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

The sanctions also applied to professors at a number of universities, including Harvard, Yale and Columbia.

Moscow banned more than 2 thousand Americans to come to Russia in response to US sanctions against Russian individuals and companies.

In response to the full-scale war in Ukraine, Western countries have imposed unprecedented sanctions on Russia.

Russia’s foreign ministry also warned against any “attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation” during this weekend’s election, in which Putin has no real opposition.