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Jeffrey Shella did not allow the chairman of the Board of Governors, BBG Board of Governors . The Council, the Government Agency of the United States, oversees the broadcasting of the Voice of America and Radio Liberty.

Shell flew to Moscow at 23:30 on Tuesday. He made a business trip as the head of the cinema unit of the NBCUNIVERSAL Corporation. When passing border control, Shella was refused to enter Russia.

“I was brought into a small room and left for half an hour alone, and then someone came with a document in Russian, which they asked me to sign,” Shell said. According to the media manager, he refused, saying that he would not sign what he did not understand.

Half an hour after Shella, they brought a translation of the document. It said that he was forbidden to enter Russia. The reasons in the document were not indicated, shella did not explain anything orally. Then the American spent three hours locked up until he was put on a flight in Amsterdam.

“The armed guard came at about 5 a.m. and spent in my place on the plane,” Shell noted. “He gave my passport to the pilot and said not to return it to me until I was in Dutch territory. It was quite inconvenient.”

Later, the Press and Information Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry in his comment explained that the shell "recently included in the stoplist, which the Russian side, as has been repeatedly announced, expands in response to Washington’s introduction for far-fetched reasons of visa sanctions against Russian citizens."

“If in Washington, in this situation, discontent about something, then exclusively - in connection with the consequences of their own aggressive and short -sighted policy,” the Foreign Ministry also said. “The sanctions are always doubled. Everyone who introduces them against Russia should remember the inevitability of retaliatory measures. Moreover, in this particular case, we are talking about one of the organizers of a large -scale false anti -Russian Propaganda financed from the American budget, that is, leading into virtue of political decisions made at the very top of the United States. "

In December 2013, the American journalist David Satter was not allowed to Russia. Since September 2013, he worked as an consultant to Radio Liberty and went to Kyiv to receive a new visa. The journalist notified that his request for a visa was approved. However, at the Russian embassy in Kyiv, Satter announced that he was prohibited from entering Russia. “The competent authorities decided that your presence in the territory of the Russian Federation is undesirable,” the embassy employee told him.

Later, the Russian Foreign Ministry explained that the entrance to Satter was prohibited due to the fact that he violated the registration deadlines. The journalist objected that he was always in contact with the Russian diplomatic department and invariably followed his instructions in registering and receiving a visa.