The i Paper’s security correspondent is among five British nationals to have been barred from entering Russia.
Richard Holmes, an award-winning journalist, was on a list published by Russia’s foreign ministry in response to what it called “the provocative anti-Russia rhetoric of British officials, the spread of insinuations about Russia and London’s practical steps to pump the Kyiv regime with weapons and military equipment”.
Other Britons included in the ban are Washington Post journalist Catherine Belton; Alexander Browder, author of a report on cryptocurrency laundering for the Henry Jackson Society; Alice Laugher, chief executive of humanitarian company Committed to Good and Richard Westbury, chairman of the Chelsea Group, the parent company of Committed to Good.
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They join dozens of British journalists, media representatives and politicians who have been sanctioned by Russia. The UK and its allies have imposed sanctions on Russia since at least 2014, when Moscow annexed Crimea, and increased them after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Russia has in turn imposed sanctions on British individuals and companies.
