Russia Responds To Sanctions By Refusing Entry To American Russophobes, Civil Rights Violators, Including VDARE.com Mugger Letitia James And The Man Who Shot Ashley Babbitt
The NYT has a story which says that in banning various Americans, Russia is punishing enemies of Trump. These include NYAG Letitia James and the black Capitol Hill cop who shot Ashley Babbitt:
Russia has expanded its list of sanctioned Americans in a tit-for-tat retaliation for the latest curbs imposed by the United States. But what is particularly striking is how much President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia is adopting perceived enemies of former President Donald J. Trump as his own.
Brad Raffensperger, the secretary of state of Georgia who rebuffed Mr. Trump’s pressure to “find” enough votes to reverse the outcome of the election, also made the list. So did Lt. Michael Byrd, the Capitol Police officer who shot the pro-Trump rioter Ashli Babbitt on Jan. 6, 2021.
None of them has anything to do with Russia policy, and the only evident reason they would have come to Moscow’s attention is because Mr. Trump has publicly assailed them.
Among the 500 people singled out for travel and financial restrictions were Americans seen as adversaries by former President Donald J. Trump.
By Peter Baker, May 21, 2023
I suppose the implication is “Russian collusion” again.
Assuming the Russians care more about Russia than they do about Trump, their motive is obviously hitting the U.S. for hypocrisy in complaining about Russia’s mistreatment of dissidents by pointing out what America is doing in that line, with the January 6 defendants.
Putin adopts some of Trump’s perceived enemies as his own not to mention his false narrative about Jan. 6 with sanctions targeting American officials "directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called storming of the Capitol."https://t.co/2n26BgqLvK
Their real target is Russophobes, etc, but NYAG James and Michael Byrd are being sanctioned for their attacks on American liberties, James for her politically motivated attack on a Republican former President, Byrd for shooting an unarmed woman during a protest with apparent impunity.
Disloyal Georgia Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who demanded the GOP condemn ordinary Trump voters for daring to criticize him [Brad Raffensperger: GOP Needs to Decry the Mob on Our Side, by Josh Feldman, Mediaite, November 29, 2020], is number 306 on the list.
And before you ask, no, the Russians didn’t know about our difficulties — their list was published before we went public with NYAG James’s persecution of us.
Via Google Translate, I have the entire list here. Some of the names will look odd because they’ve been translated from English to Russian and back, and the reason they’ve included the middle names of “James” Kimmel and Stephen Tyrone Colbert is that Russian naming conventions are different than ours, and most Russians have a middle “patronymic” name which is important to them.
In response to the regularly imposed anti-Russian sanctions by the Biden administration, which, according to Washington’s plan, are designed to inflict maximum damage on Russia by personally affecting officials and ordinary citizens of our country, as a countermeasure, entry into the Russian Federation is closed for 500 Americans.
Among them are not only “significant” figures, including former US President B. Obama, but also current leaders of various levels of executive power, ex-officials like the White House curator for combating “Russian disinformation” N. Yankovich, who were first elected at the November elections-2022, senators and congressmen, experts and employees of “analytical” centers involved in the spread of Russophobic attitudes and fakes, as well as the heads of military-industrial complex companies that supply weapons to the regime in Kiev. The attached “list-500” also includes those in government and law enforcement agencies who are directly involved in the persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called Storming the Capitol.
It is high time for Washington to learn that no hostile attack on Russia will go unpunished. The principle of the inevitability of punishment will be consistently applied, whether we are talking about tougher sanctions pressure or discriminatory steps to hinder the professional activities of our fellow citizens.
In this regard, we confirm that the request of the US Embassy in Moscow for a consular visit to the reporter E. Gershkovich arrested for espionage is once again rejected in response to the refusal to issue visas to Russian journalists from the pool of Foreign Minister S. V. Lavrov, as a result of which they could not fly to New York to accompany his visit as part of Russia’s presidency of the UN Security Council.
The following is a list of names of US citizens who are included in the “stop list” on a permanent basis:
Cara Abercrombie — Senior Director of Defense Affairs, National Security Council;
Robert J. Abernethy — Vice Chairman, NGO Atlantic Council;
Michael J. Abramowitz, President of the NGO Freedom House;
Bruce Adams — Executive Vice President, In-Q-Tel Corporation;
Paloma Adams-Allen — Deputy Director of the Agency for International Development;
Aaron Azelton — Director of Citizen Participation Programs, National Democratic Institute for International Affairs Research Center;
Glenn Ivey (Glenn Frederick Ivey) — member of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party (Maryland);
Stuart E. Eizenstat — Member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Atlantic Council;
Jasmine Alexander-Greene, Russian and Eurasian Research Analyst, Carnegie Endowment;
Jill M. Albertelli, President, Military Engine Division, Pratt & Whitney Corporation;
Rebecca Balint — Member of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party (Vermont);
Hector Balderas — Former New Mexico Attorney General;
Valerie Jane Bunce — professor at Cornell University;
Michael S. Barr — Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve;
Rachel K. Bauman — political adviser for Russia, Ukraine and Belarus;
Ryan Bauer, Senior Analyst, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Brandon Baker, Vice President, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Douglas A. Beck, Member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Center for a New American Security;
Adam Seth Boehler — Member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Atlantic Council;
Leonard Benardo — Executive Vice President, Open Society Foundations;
Samuel Bendett — Advisor for Strategy, Policy and Planning, NGO Center for Naval Analysis;
Ariana Berengaut — Advisor to the National Security Council;
Michael Byrd (Michael Leroy Byrd) — the police officer who killed Ashley Babbit during the so-called. “Assault on the Capitol”;
David S. Burke — Member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment;
Erin Burnett — commentator on CNN;
Jared Bernstein — candidate for the position of head of the White House Council of Economic Advisers;
Aaron Paul Bean — Member of the House of Representatives from the Republican Party (Piece of Florida);
Anika Binnendijk, Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Maher Bitar, Senior Director of Intelligence Programs, National Security Council;
Jason Blazakis — Director of the Center for the Study of Terrorism, Extremism and Counter-Terrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies;
Alexis A. Blanc — Researcher, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Scott Blanchard, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, General Dynamics: Mission Systems Corporation;
James Blue (James Neal Blue) — Chairman of the Corporation “General Atomics”;
Linden Stanley Blue — Deputy Chairman of General Atomics;
Denis A. Bovin — Member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Center for a New American Security;
Robert Bonta (Robert Andres Bonta) — Attorney General of the State of California;
Christopher Bort, Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment;
Scott Boston — Senior Analyst, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Andrea G. Botta — Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company “Schernier”;
Keisha Lance Bottoms — former director of the White House Office of Public Affairs and Intergovernmental Relations;
Stephen C. Bowsher, President, In-Q-Tel Corporation;
Matthew Graves (Matthew Michael Graves) — Attorney of the District of Columbia;
Michelle Grise — Researcher, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Michael Greenwald — Senior Adviser to the President and Chief Executive Officer of NGO Atlantic Council;
Samantha Gross Foreign Policy Fellow at the Brookings Institution;
Derek Grossman — Senior Analyst, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Timish Holowinsky, Executive Director, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University;
Jennifer Gould — Vice President, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Olivia Alair Dalton — First Deputy Chief of the Press Office of the White House;
Anita Babbitt Dunn — Senior Advisor to the President of the United States;
Richard Danzig (Richard Jeffrey Danzig) — Member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Center for a New American Security;
Joseph Francis Dunford Jr. — Member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Atlantic Council;
Christopher Darby — Executive Director of In-Q-Tel Corporation;
Himamauli Das — acting Head of Financial Intelligence of the Ministry of Finance;
Matthew Duss — Carnegie Endowment Fellow;
Steven A. Denning — Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment;
Anthony D’Esposito — Member of the House of Representatives from the Republican Party (NY);
Deborah Roche Lee James — Member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Atlantic Council;
John Edward James — Member of the House of Representatives from the Republican Party (Michigan);
Letitia James — Attorney General of the State of New York;
Jonathan Luther Jackson — Member of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party (Illinois);
Brian Michael Jenkins — Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation Research Center;
Kathy Jennings — Delaware Attorney General;
Gian Gentile, Senior Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Mike Januzik — Vice President, RAND Corporation Research Center;
James Logan Jones Jr. — Honorary Executive Chairman, NGO Atlantic Council;
Gina Ortiz Jones — Deputy Secretary of the Air Force;
Seth G. Jones — Senior Vice President, NGO Center for Strategic and International Studies;
Jay Charles Johnson — Member of the Board of Directors of Lockheed Martin Corporation;
David E. Johnson, Senior Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Michael Johnson, Analyst, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Vladimir Georgiyevich Dibrova (Volodymyr Dibrova) — employee of the Ukrainian Research Center at Harvard University;
Stacey Angela Dixon — First Deputy Director of National Intelligence;
Kim Deal, Chief Scientist, NGO Center for Naval Analysis;
James Francis Dobbins Jr., Senior Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Eileen Chamberlain Donahoe — Member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment;
Thomas J. Donovan — Former Vermont Attorney General;
Michael J. Driscoll — Deputy Director of the New York division of the FBI;
John Scott Duarte — Member of the House of Representatives from the Republican Party (State of California);
Caitlin Durkovich Special Assistant to the President of the United States and Senior Director for Resilience and Response at the National Security Council;
Donald Davis (Donald Gene Davis) — Member of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party (Piece of North Carolina);
Paul K. Davis, Senior Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
PDaniel Howard Yergin, Economics and Energy Expert, Member of the Brookings Institution Board of Trustees;
P Jeffrey Dunston Zients — White House Chief of Staff;
Mary Menell Zients — wife of D. Zients, head of the White House Staff;
Deven J. Parekh — Member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment;
Stewart Patrick — Director and Senior Fellow, Carnegie Endowment;
Stephanie Pezard — Senior Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Matthew T. Page, Fellow, Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, Carnegie Endowment;
Eric Peltz — Senior Vice President, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Thomas B. Pepinsky, Brookings Institution Expert;
George Perkovich — Vice President for Research, Carnegie Endowment;
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern — Member of the Executive Committee of the Scientific Society. T. Shevchenko in the USA;
Brittany Louise Pettersen — Member of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party (Colorado);
James D. Pillen — Governor of Nebraska;
Colette S. Peters — Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons;
Jeffrey M. Peterson — Vice President, NGO Center for Naval Analysis;
Christine M. Peterson, Financial Director, NGO Center for Naval Analysis;
Kenneth Polite — Assistant Attorney General;
Christopher Paul — Senior Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Jared Schultz Polis — Governor of Colorado;
Arati Prabhakar — Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy;
Everett Price — Senior Political Advisor;
Benjamin Press — Carnegie Endowment Analyst;
Mirande Priebe — Senior Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Penny Sue Pritzker — Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment, sister of Illinois Governor J. Pritzker;
Andrew Radin, Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Jack Riley (K. Jack Riley) — Vice President of the RAND Corporation Research Center;
Delia Catalina Ramirez, Democratic Member of the House of Representatives (Illinois);
Karl A. Racine, District of Columbia Attorney General;
Alison Rausch — Vice President for Development, Carnegie Endowment;
Bradford Jay Raffensperger Secretary of State of Georgia;
Catherine B. Raynolds, Member of the Board of Directors of General Dynamics Corporation;
Leo Rafael Reif — Member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment;
Carlyn Reichel — Senior Director, National Security Council Strategic Initiatives;
Philip Remler, Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment;
Bruce Reed — Deputy White House Chief of Staff;
Curtis Reed — Chief of Staff of the National Security Council;
Andrea Risotto, Director of Communications, Brookings Institution;<
Charles P. Ries — Senior Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Clint Reach — Senior Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
John Richardson — Member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Center for a New American Security;
Heather Cox Richardson, professor at Boston College;
John Francis William Rogers — Chairman, NGO Atlantic Council;
Julie Chavez Rodriguez — Senior Advisor to the President of the United States, Director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs;
Matthew Rojansky — Executive Director of the NGO American-Russian Foundation for Economic and Legal Development, former director of the NGO “Cannon Institute” (2013-2022);
Cherie Rosenblum — Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Executive Director of the Military Advisory Board of the NGO Center for Naval Analysis;
Ellen Rosenblum — Oregon Attorney General;
Peter James Roskam — Deputy Chairman of the NGO National Endowment for Democracy;
Melissa Rowe — Vice President of the RAND Corporation Research Center;
Ashley L. Rhoades, Research Fellow, Rand Corporation Research Center;
Mark C. Roualet — Executive Vice President, General Dynamics Corporation;
James P. Rubin, Special Representative and Coordinator, State Department Center for Global Engagement;
Eugene Rumer, Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment;
Dafna Hochman Rand, Director of the State Department’s Office of Foreign Assistance;
Victoria Ransom — Member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment;
Scott Savitz — Senior Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Benjamin J. Sacks, Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
David Sundberg — Assistant Chief of the FBI Territorial Office for Washington, DC;
Lee Satterfield — Undersecretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs;
Laura Taylor Swain — Judge of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York;
Anna Switzer, Associate Director for Russia and Eurasia, Carnegie Endowment;
Michael Hikari Cecire — Senior Political Advisor;
Eric Ciaramella, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment;
George Siguier — Member of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Endowment;
Dilpreet Sidhu — Deputy Chief of Staff of the Deputy Minister of Defense;
Shannon Simrell, Representative of the Helsinki Commission at the US Permanent Mission to the OSCE;
Melanie W. Sisson, Fellow, Brookings Institution;
David Evans Skaggs — Deputy Chairman of the NGO National Endowment for Democracy;
Curtis Michael Scaparotti — Member of the Board of Directors of the NGO Atlantic Council;
Joe Scarborough — commentator on the TV channel “MS-NBC”;
Hillary Jeanne Scholten — member of the House of Representatives from the Democratic Party (Michigan);
Joel Scanlon — Executive Vice President of the Hudson Institution;
Andrew Scott — Special Assistant to the President of the United States and Senior Director of Cyber Policy at the National Security Council;
Sally Sleeper — Vice President, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Amanda Sloat, Special Assistant to the President of the United States and Senior Director for Europe at the National Security Council;
Jeffrey H. Smith, Member of the Board of Trustees, In-Q-Tel Corporation;
John L. Smith — Special Counsel, Department of Justice;
Colin D. Smith — Senior Research Fellow, RAND Corporation Research Center;
Richard Sokolsky, Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Carnegie Endowment;