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Russia bans Biden but not Trump, on list of Americans travel-barred

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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin meet for a news conference in joint after they met in Helsinki on July 16, 2018. 

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President Joe Biden made Russia’s “blacklist”Former President Donald Trump didn’t.

The Saturday release by Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry an updated list of nearly 1,000 AmericansPermanently barred from the country is a symbolic response to severe sanctions placed by Western countries on Ukraine’s brutal invasion in February.

Biden had been barred from Russia since March, along with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Army General Mark Milley. Milley is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

However, the list has been updated to include Vice President Kamala Harris and Hunter Biden (who was scandalized). FacebookMark Zuckerberg is the founder. Hillary Clinton was the ex-secretary of state and former first lady.

George Soros is also a multi-billionaire investor. Soros’s philanthropic support for liberal causes and organizations in the ex-Soviet bloc have made him an enemy of both Russia and right-wing conspirators.

Trump wasn’t on the 963 list of banned Americans. Trump has repeatedly praised Russian President Vladimir Putin, and criticised investigations into Russia’s interference in 2016, the U.S. presidential elections that saw Trump beat Hillary Clinton.

Trump was impeached by the House for withholding military aid from Ukraine that had been authorized by Congress. He also pressured Volodymyr Zeleskyy, the country’s newly elected president to launch investigations into Joe Biden. Joe Biden was then the Democratic nominee for the White House.

After a Senate trial, Trump was found not guilty.

Trump spokeswoman, however, did not immediately reply to our request for comment regarding his absence from Russia’s travel ban.

Trump’s former president Barack Obama, and Mike Pence his vice president are also not listed. But Pence’s brother Rep. Greg Pence (R-Ind.) is.

So are 211 of Greg Pence’s fellow Republicans in the House of Representatives and Senate — along with 224 Democratic members of both congressional chambers.

Two hardcore Republican Trump supporters, Matt Gaetz from Florida and Arizona’s Paul Gosar, were among the GOP House members who were placed on the ban list.

The list also includes two Democratic House members, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York and Rep. Ilhan Omar from Minnesota.

Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Speaker, was also expelled from communion this week by the San Francisco Roman Archdiocese for her support of abortion rights.

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Russian state media agency RIA published a statement by the Foreign Ministry stating that Russian counter-sanctions were “forced” to make the American government change their behavior and accept “new geopolitical realities.”

The U.S. was also charged by the ministry with trying to inflict a “rules-based global order” upon the rest of the globe.

It stated that the U.S. government had taken “hostile measures” against the country and would continue to be rebuffed.

Russia has blocked entry from hundreds of Canadians to Russia, including the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia freeland) and many members of the United Kingdom’s Parliament.

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