French lawmakers Sacha Houlié and Arthur Delaporte and French journalists Ariane Chemin and Paul Gogo have been barred from entering Russia in retaliation for France’s decision to expel pro-Kremlin journalist Xenia Fedorova, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced on Wednesday.
The decision concerning the four French public figures was taken “in response to their involvement in the harassment of Xenia Fedorova and their calls for her expulsion,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said, according to AFP.
However, the Russian Foreign Ministry does not specify which statements by the French lawmakers and journalists prompted the measure against them.
Since late July, Russian journalist Xenia Fedorova (the former head of RT France, the French-language arm of the Russian propaganda broadcaster Russia Today) has been subject to an expulsion order and a freeze on her assets in France over her pro-Moscow propaganda.
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