Russia bars entry to dozens more Britons including Starmer, Cameron and Piers Morgan

LONDON (Reuters) -Russia on Monday introduced sanctions towards 39 British politicians, officers, enterprise folks and journalists, barring them from getting into Russia for supporting the “demonisation” of the nation.

These focused embrace opposition Labour Get together chief Keir Starmer, former prime minister David Cameron and distinguished TV journalists Piers Morgan, Robert Peston and Huw Edwards.

Their names are added to these of greater than 200 different Britons whom Russia has already banned, together with most of Britain’s main politicians.

The journey bans – mirroring these Russia has imposed on different Western nations which have hit it with sanctions over the invasion of Ukraine – are largely symbolic provided that relations are already at all-time low and hardly any of these focused had been prone to have meant to go to the nation.

Russia’s international ministry mentioned, nonetheless, it could maintain including to the checklist.

“Given London’s harmful drive to spin the sanctions flywheel on far-fetched and absurd pretexts, work on increasing the Russian stop-list will proceed,” it mentioned in a press release.

Individually, the Russian Prosecutor Normal’s workplace mentioned it had declared the Calvert 22 Basis, a non-profit organisation based mostly in London, to be an “undesirable organisation”.

“It has been established that its exercise poses a risk to the foundations of the constitutional order and the safety of the Russian Federation,” it mentioned in a press release.

No remark was instantly accessible from the organisation, which was based in 2009 by Russian-born economist Nonna Materkova and focuses on arts and tradition in Russia and jap Europe.

(Reporting by Mark Trevelyan; modifying by Man Faulconbridge)