Press release on individual sanctions against political figures, army and law enforcement officials and media representatives of Great Britain  

In response to the aggressive anti-Russia policy pursued by London whereby a mechanism of unilateral sanctions against Russian citizens and companies is actively employed, a decision has been made to expand Russia’s stop-list by including members of Great Britain’s political establishment, army and law enforcement, the professional legal community and the journalist corps, for a total of 54 people. 

The expanded list includes, among others, UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Lucy Frazer, who is actively lobbies to bar Russian athletes from international sports, and Minister of State for Defence Annabel Goldie who is in charge of weapons supplies to Ukraine, including depleted uranium munitions. In addition, the list includes British national Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, who prepared a warrant for President Vladimir Putin.

In view of London’s unwavering military support for Kiev’s neo-Nazi regime, a decision was also made to impose individual personal sanctions against the leaders of the British private military intelligence company, Prevail Partners (Justin Hedges, Damian Huntingford and Daryn Liddle), as the company’s specialists participate in collecting intelligence (including personal data on foreign and Russian nationals as well as Russian servicemen involved in the special military operation) and forwarding it to Ukrainian special services. According to available reports, the company’s representatives have repeatedly visited Kiev to prepare sabotage and reconnaissance units for missions in the combat zone. 

In view of Britain’s involvement in information and propaganda support for the Zelensky regime, the updated list includes Russophobia-charged officials and correspondents in the British media, including the BBC’s Deborah Turness, Marianna Spring, Ros Atkins, Daniele Palumbo and Jake Horton; Guardian Media Group’s Charles Gurassa, Keith Underwood, Emily Bell, Julian Borger, Daniel Boffey, and The Daily Telegraph’s David Knowles, Mark Musgrave, Francis Dearnley and Keith Freeman. They are implicated in fabricating fraudulent anti-Russia stories to be promoted in the media and in spreading false information about our country as they are trying to prevent and cut short attempts at impartial coverage of the developments in Ukraine and to exclude signs of dissent by using methods described by George Orwell in his novels 1984 and Animal Farm.

The list of British nationals who are barred from entering the Russian Federation also includes top managers of PR agencies that conduct anti-Russia activities. Among them are Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ Alastair McCapra and Rachel Roberts; the International Public Relations Association’s Phillip Sheppard, and the Public Relations and Communications Association’s Rachel Friend, among others.

We would like to stress again that any of London’s attempts to further spin the flywheel of anti-Russia sanctions will inevitably face a resolute response on our part. 

Work on expanding Russia’s blacklist in response to Britain’s actions is ongoing.