Russia has imposed sanctions against officials of the highest echelon of the U.S. government. This was reported on its website by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

In a statement on the subject, the diplomatic office said: "In response to the ever-expanding anti-Russian sanctions, which the Biden Administration is putting more and more Russian citizens - officials and their families, as well as businessmen, scholars and cultural figures - 29 Americans from among senior executives, businessmen, experts and journalists, who shape the Russophobic agenda, as well as spouses of several high-ranking officials are included in the "stop list". These individuals are banned from entering the Russian Federation indefinitely".

The Foreign Ministry further provides a list of U.S. citizens who are indefinitely banned from entering Russia.

Among them:

Kamala Devi Harris -Vice President of the United States;

Kathleen Holland Hicks -First Deputy Secretary of Defense;

Christopher Watson Grady - vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff;

John Francis Kirby, deputy secretary of defense, spokesman for the Department of Defense;

Ronald Klain, White House chief of staff;

Evan Maureen Ryan, secretary of the presidency, wife of Secretary of State E. Blinken;

Margaret Goodlander is an adviser to the Secretary of Justice and the wife of Assistant U.S. President for Homeland Security J. Sullivan;

Douglas Craig Emhoff, husband of Vice President C. Harris;

Robert Kagan is a political scientist and the husband of Senior Deputy Secretary of State W. Nuland;

Edward Price is a State Department spokesman;

Richard/Rachel Levine - deputy secretary of health;

Brian Thomas Moynihan - Chairman and CEO of Bank of America;

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg, co-founder and head of the board of directors of Meta (formerly Facebook);

Kathy Warden, president and CEO of Northrop Grumann Corporation;

Phebe Novakovic, president of General Dynamics;

Michael Petters is president of Huntington Ingalls Industries;

William Brown is president of L-3 Harris Technologies;

Wahid Nawabi is president of Aerovironment;

Roger Krone is president of Leidos;

Horacio Rozanski is president of Booz Allen Hamilton;

Eilee Drake is president of Aerojet Rocketdyne;

David Deptula is head of research at Mitchell Institute of Aerospace Stadium;

Ryan Roslansky is chief executive officer of social networking site Linkedin;

George Robert Stephanopoulos, host of ABC;

Matthew Kroenig is deputy director of the B. Scowcroft Center for Strategic Security, an NGO;

David Reynolds Ignatius is a journalist and expert at the W. Wilson Center;

Edward Acevedo is a former member of the Illinois state legislature and a Wilson Center expert;

Kevin Rothrock is a Wilson Center expert and editor in chief of the English-language version of the Medusa media portal;

Bianna Vitalievna Golodryga - senior international analyst at CNN TV channel.

The Foreign Ministry also noted that "a new announcement about another addition to the Russian "stop list" as a countermeasure to the hostile actions of the U.S. authorities will follow in the near future.