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July 20th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Russia has censured the most recent sanctions imposed by the U.S. government for what it calls Moscow’s failure to defuse the crisis in Ukraine.
The Foreign Ministry of Russia announced on Saturday that the country would deny entry to several US citizens in retaliation for Washington’s unilateral measure against Moscow.
In a statement, the ministry’s spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said: “Retaliatory measures definitely will be taken. First of all, a similar number of Americans will be prohibited from entering (Russia).”
Washington has imposed several rounds of sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine in recent months.
However, Moscow has stressed that the sanctions will not change its stance on Ukraine.
The ministry’s statement added that Russia has placed a US lawmaker and 12 other people, who had links to the US-run Guantanamo Bay detention camp and the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, on its list of those banned from entering the country.
Alexander Lukashevich said the Foreign Ministry has banned congressman Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia, in a tit-for-tat to the July 2 US ban on Russian parliament member Adam Delimkhanov.
The statement added that the other 12, including Guantanamo commander Rear Adm. Richard Butler and Lynndie England, a former soldier convicted of abusing prisoners in Abu Ghraib, were banned in response to the United States’ adding 12 names in May to the so-called Magnitsky List of Russians sanctioned for human rights abuses.
Retired Brigadier General Ricardo Sanchez, who commanded US ground forces in Iraq in 2003-2004, retired Colonel Janis Karpinsky whose command included the Abu Ghraib prison, and Gladys Kessler, a federal judge who rejected a Guantanamo inmate’s complaint of being force-fed while on hunger strike, were also included.
Ukraine’s mainly Russian-speaking parts in the east have been the scene of deadly clashes between pro-Russia activists and the Ukrainian army since Kiev launched military operations in mid-April in a bid to crush pro-Moscow protests in the east.
Violence intensified after the Donetsk and Luhansk regions held local referendums on May 11, in which their residents voted overwhelmingly in favor of independence from Ukraine.
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