The list of barred journalists includes the top editor of The Wall Street Journal. Dozens of other Americans are also forbidden to enter Russia, which said the move was in response to sanctions against it.

Russia on Wednesday barred a number of journalists from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post, as well as dozens of other Americans, from entering the country.

In a statement posted online, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said it had permanently barred 92 U.S. citizens in response to the Biden administration’s “Russophobic course,” including its sweeping sanctions. In addition to the journalists, the list of those barred included lawyers, security agency officials, lawmakers, university professors and business executives.

The ministry said it had barred “editorial staff and reporters of leading liberal-globalist publications involved in the production and dissemination of ‘fakes’ about Russia and the Russian armed forces, and the propaganda ‘cover’ for the ‘hybrid war’

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