Russia Announces Sanctions Against Biden, Blinken, Other Top Officials

Russia Announces Sanctions Against Biden, Blinken, Other Top Officials
President Joe Biden speaks at the National League of Cities Congressional City Conference in Washington, on March 14, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Nick Ciolino
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Russia has announced sanctions against U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and a list of other top-ranking U.S. officials and well-known American figures in a tit-for-tat exchange with the West amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

In a statement Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that, in response to unprecedented U.S. sanctions against Russia, a list of Americans will be “included in the Russian ‘stop list’ on a reciprocal basis as of March 15 of this year,” according to the statement translated by Interfax.