{"id":12018,"date":"2023-05-20T03:28:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-20T08:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=12018"},"modified":"2023-05-20T03:28:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T08:28:14","slug":"moscow-bans-500-americans-from-russia-including-cnn-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=12018","title":{"rendered":"Moscow bans \u2018500 Americans\u2019 from Russia including CNN journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former United States President Barack Obama, late night television host Stephen Colbert, and CNN\u2019s Erin Burnett are some of the \u201c500 Americans\u201d Russia has banned from entering the country.<br>Russia on Friday announced it was banning \u201c500 Americans,\u201d many prominent figures of US executive power, from entering the country \u201cin a response to the regularly anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the Joe Biden administration,\u201d according to a statement from Russia\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<br>The list includes Obama, former US Ambassador Jon Huntsman, several US senators and the next expected chairman of the joint chiefs Charles Q. Brown Jr.<br>The rambling list of names also includes American late night TV hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert, and Seth Meyers.<br>The statement also said: \u201cThe attached \u2018list-500\u2019 also includes those in government and law enforcement agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called Storming the Capitol.\u201d On January 6, 2021, scores of supporters of former US President Donald Trump sought to stop Biden\u2019s certification as president and attacked the US Capitol.<br>Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to question the arrest of the rioters a few months later, saying the people had come to Congress \u201cwith political demands,\u201d\u00a0Reuters reported.<br>Friday\u2019s list also includes CNN Anchor Erin Burnett and is an update of a previously published longer list of sanctioned individuals that includes CNN\u2019s Chief International Security Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh, CNN contributors Bianna Golodryga and Timothy Naftali.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/19\/europe\/russia-bans-american-citizens-obama-intl\/index.html\">Cnn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former United States President Barack Obama, late night television host Stephen Colbert, and CNN\u2019s Erin Burnett are some of the \u201c500 Americans\u201d Russia has banned from entering the country.Russia on Friday announced it was banning \u201c500 Americans,\u201d many prominent figures of US executive power, from entering the country \u201cin a response to the regularly anti-Russian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[7075,1199,7074],"class_list":["post-12018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-7075","tag-americans","tag-russia-banned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12020,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018\/revisions\/12020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}