{"id":1441462,"date":"2022-04-16T10:16:48","date_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1441462"},"modified":"2022-04-16T10:17:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T14:17:03","slug":"moscow-gets-tough-by-banning-boris-johnson-from-visiting-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/moscow-gets-tough-by-banning-boris-johnson-from-visiting-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Gets Tough&#8230; By Banning Boris Johnson From Visiting Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmoscow-gets-tough-by-banning-boris-johnson-from-visiting-russia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1441462&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239836059-e1650107452981-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Just as the tourism industry recovers from years of Chinese coronavirus lockdowns, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will find his summer holiday choices curbed from today, after the Russian government announced sanctions declaring he was no longer welcome in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Likely reflecting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10658965\/Zelensky-praises-Boris-helping-Western-leaders.html\">occasional<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/04\/09\/boris-johnson-makes-surprise-visit-to-kyiv-for-meeting-with-zelensky\/\">claims<\/a> by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Britain\u2019s Boris Johnson is one of Ukraine\u2019s greatest international backers, Moscow has banned Mr Johnson from visiting Russia at all.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The stern punishment was announced in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mid.ru\/ru\/foreign_policy\/news\/1809607\/\">statement<\/a> from the Russian Foreign Ministry that named 13 British political figures. As well as Boris Johnson \u2014 full-named in the statement as \u2018Alexander Boris de Pfeffel JOHNSON\u2019 \u2014 the Deputy Prime Minister, Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, and Minister of Defence were named.<\/p>\n<p>Even former Prime Minister Theresa May and devolved Scottish government North Briton leader Nicola Sturgeon made the roll of honour of British politicians \u201cno longer allowed to enter the Russian Federation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Andriy Sybiha, an aide to President Zelensky, praised the United Kingdom as &#8220;the leader in the defence support of Ukraine&#8221; and Prime Minister Johnson as\u00a0&#8220;the leader of the anti-war coalition. The leader of sanctions on the Russian aggressor.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W13e4xuGZe\">https:\/\/t.co\/W13e4xuGZe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1512854539317166087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Explaining their decision to block Johnson and others, the Russian government said Britain had undertaken \u201cunprecedented hostile actions\u201d, is running an \u201cunbridled information and political campaign aimed at isolating Russia internationally\u2026\u00a0and strangling the domestic economy\u201d, and is \u201cdeliberately aggravating the situation\u2026 shamelessly inciting the Kiev neo-Nazi regime\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Johnson government has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2022\/jan\/23\/no-10-casts-boris-johnson-as-head-of-anti-russian-alliance-over-ukraine\">long cast itself <\/a>as leading the world in pushing for sanctions against Russia, and it appears Moscow agrees: accusing Britain of Russophobia, the statement said the United Kingdom was pushing its allies and instigating \u201csenseless and counterproductive\u201d sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>The language of the ban follows <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1437567\">earlier rhetoric<\/a> from\u00a0Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov earlier this week, who stated the West\u2019s military support of Ukraine in recent years was the culmination of the \u201cRussophobia\u201d of Washington D.C. and European Union capital Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Laying out his charge sheet, Lavrov said on Thursday: \u201cUkraine was actively dragged into NATO, encouraged in every way to prohibit the Russian language, Russian education, Russian media, arrest people, persecute and even murder independent journalists, was pumped with lethal weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Russia says the list of banned Britons will grow in future. The list of British politicians banned from Russia so far, in order of appearance, is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson<\/li>\n<li>Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab<\/li>\n<li>Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss<\/li>\n<li>Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace<\/li>\n<li>Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps<\/li>\n<li>Home Secretary Priti Patel<\/li>\n<li>Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak<\/li>\n<li>Secretary of State for Business Kwasi Kwarteng<\/li>\n<li>Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Nadine Dorries<\/li>\n<li>Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces James Heappey<\/li>\n<li>First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon<\/li>\n<li>Attorney General Suella Baverman<\/li>\n<li>Former Prime Minister Theresa May<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as the tourism industry recovers from years of Chinese coronavirus lockdowns, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will find his summer holiday choices curbed from today, after the Russian government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}