The Foreign Ministry named 963 US citizens who are prohibited from entering Russia. The list includes Joe Biden, Morgan Freeman and the producer of "Shrek"

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation has published a list of names of US citizens who are banned from entering Russia.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs explained the publication with "incoming requests about the personal composition of the national" stop list "". The department did not specify in what period of time visa restrictions were imposed on people from the list, while the list includes dead people (for example, Senator John McCain, who died in 2018).

The list includes US President Joe Biden, who was banned from entering Russia in March 2022. The list also included:

Hunter Biden, son of the President of the United States;
Anthony Blinken, US Secretary of State;
Hillary Clinton, former US Secretary of State;
Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of Defense;
William Burns, director of the CIA;
Christopher Ray, director of the FBI;
Jeffrey Katzenberg, head of the DreamWorks Animation studio, producer of the cartoon "Shrek";
Rob Reiner, actor and director;
Brad Smith, president of Microsoft;
George Soros, financier and founder of the Open Society Institute;
Robert Mueller, Special Counsel for Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election;
David Axelrod, Barack Obama's campaign manager during both presidential campaigns.

Actor Morgan Freeman, among other things, has been banned from entering Russia. The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that in September 2017, the actor recorded "a video message accusing Russia of conspiring against the United States and calling for a fight against our country."

In addition, there are several journalists on the list: Susan Glasser (New Yorker), Bret Stevens (The New York Times), Nick Paton Walsh (CNN) and Kevin Rothrock (editor-in-chief of the English-language Meduza).

In addition, the list mentions US citizens who have been accused of crimes against adopted children from Russia over the years.

The Foreign Ministry named 963 US citizens who are prohibited from entering Russia. The list includes Joe Biden, Morgan Freeman and the producer of &quot;Shrek&quot;