Russian retaliatory penalties target UK media, politicians
(MENAFN) As part of punitive actions against London's "hostile course aimed at demonization" of Russia, Moscow on Monday banned 39 British officials, consultancy professionals, and journalists. On the list, which also included notable figures from the Liberal Democrats, SNP, and Greens, former prime Minister David Cameron was at the top. Journalists are at the bottom of the list, and one of them is the television celebrity Piers Morgan.
Russia is going to respond appropriately and forcefully to Great Britain's " pernicious actions of Great Britain in planting Russophobia, spreading false information about our country and supporting the neo-Nazi regime in Kiev will receive an adequate and decisive response," according to a statement from the foreign ministry.
The ministry stated that “the choice in favor of confrontation is a conscious decision of the British political establishment, which bears all responsibility for the consequences.”
Cameron is at the top of the list, followed by George Robertson, a former defense secretary who later served as NATO secretary-general and is currently a life peer and an associate of the House of Lords.
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