Russia has put 25 US citizens on the "stop list" as a response to Washington's personal sanctions, adding, in particular, US actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday, APA reports citing Sputnik.
"In response to the Joe Biden administration's ever-expanding personal sanctions against Russian citizens, an entry ban to Russia in introduced against another group of people from among members of the US Congress, high-ranking officials, representatives of the business and expert communities, as well as cultural figures (25 people), on a permanent basis," the ministry said in a statement.
Actors Sean Penn and Ben Stiller, both of whom traveled to Ukraine and met Volodymyr Zelenskyy this year, are among those included in the list.