Moscow confirms list of ‘undesireable’ U.S. officials barred entry to Russia

Russia has completed an initial “undesireables list” of individuals who will be refused entry into the country in response to the United States’ so-called Magnitsky List, which lists Russian officials allegedly linked to the death of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky earlier in the year to entering the United States, Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Saturday.“We, of course, have not left the political provocation against our country unanswered. On the principle of reciprocity, we have confirmed a list of U.S. citizens whose entry into the Russian Federation is undesireable,” Lukashevich said.