Actor Morgan Freeman and actor/filmmaker Rob Reiner were among the nearly 1,000 Americans banned from visiting Russia by the Moscow foreign ministry.
Others on the list, posted on the ministry’s website on Saturday, include US government officials, lawmakers and other politicians, including politicians. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and, somewhat secretly, the late Senator John McCain.
McCain was one of three former senators on the kill list. Survivors include Mark Zuckerberg and Meta’s George Soros.
All were accused of “inciting anti-Russian hostility” by Moscow in response to similar actions by Washington after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, SKY News reported.
Reiner and Freeman’s notes refer to their joint work in support of the Investigative Committee in Russia, a nonprofit dedicated to exposing Russian allegations of meddling in the US election.
Reiner sat on the group’s advisory board created in 2017, and Freeman, 84, described the video he posted.
File/Morgan Freeman and Rob Reiner arrive at the premiere of Rob Reiner’s Wish List in Paris, France, on January 17, 2008. (Francois Durand/Getty)
“We are under attack,” Freeman said in the video, referring to Russia’s unproven meddling in the 2016 presidential election. “We are at war.”
Russia’s counter-sanctions are necessary and are aimed at deterring the US, which is trying to impose a neo-colonial “world order” on the rest of the planet… State Department said in a statement. expression.
Moscow said it was open to “honest dialogue” and made a distinction between the US public and officials “who are fueling Russian hostility”.
Sinai Representative Marjorie Taylor Green, Hunter Biden, Senator Lindsey Graham, journalist George Stephanopoulos, filmmaker Jeffrey Katzenberg and others are on the list and can travel freely with Moscow’s permission.
Source: Breitbart
