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The Guardian - UK
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Pjotr Sauer

Russia bans dozens of UK journalists, media figures and politicians

The Kremlin's Spasskaya tower and St Basil's cathedral.
Moscow said the action was in response to UK sanctions and the ‘spreading of false information about Russia’. Photograph: Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images

Russia has banned dozens of British journalists, media representatives and senior UK politicians from entering the country, including five Guardian journalists and executives, the foreign ministry said on Friday.

In a statement published on the foreign ministry’s website, Moscow said the sweeping action was a response to UK sanctions and the “spreading of false information about Russia”, as well as “London’s unrelenting military support for the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime”.

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