Russia Sanctions Ben Stiller, Sean Penn After Latest US Measures
- The actors are permanently banned from entering the country
- Ban comes after Stiller told Zelenskiy, ‘You’re my hero’
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Russia fired its latest salvo in an escalating sanctions row over President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, permanently banning 25 US citizens, including actors Ben Stiller and Sean Penn, from entering the country.
The list, which also includes senators and analysts at think tanks, is “in response to the ever-expanding personal sanctions by the Biden Administration against Russian citizens,” the Foreign Ministry in Moscow said in a website statement.