Dozens of prominent Australians, from the Australian Financial Review’s editor-in-chief to Mike Cannon-Brookes have been branded “Russophobic” and banned from travel to Russia.
Your Europe correspondent avoided the ban, and surely needs to capitalise on his freedom of movement by booking a ticket to Russia as soon as possible. He won’t be joined by Nine chairman Peter Costello or CEO Mike Sneesby, who are both in Moscow’s sights.
“I don’t take it lightly, I take it seriously. But I just want to say to the other leaders in this room: you’re not worth talking to if you haven’t been sanctioned,” he joked. Australia’s politicians have been spared on this occasion, after the Kremlin in early April slapped a similar entry ban on all 227 members of the House of Representatives and the Senate.The only new politician on Russia’s list was South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas, who was surely doomed by his Lithuanian heritage.
Roughly half the list comprised journalists and media executives, with another quarter coming from the armed forces or the defence department.The Russian roster of sanctioned military and defence personnel seemed less random than the list of journalists. But there were some quirks of terminology or translation.
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