Foreign Ministry statement on retaliatory personal sanctions against representatives of the UK media, NGOs, consulting agencies and expert community
20 August 2025 16:22
1348-20-08-2025
In response to London's continued confrontational course, including its efforts to demonise our country, actively fabricate anti-Russia narratives to diminish Moscow's international influence, and its ongoing supply of weapons to the neo-Nazi Kiev regime, a decision has been made to add a number of British representatives from the media, non-governmental organisations, consulting agencies, and expert community to Russia's "stop list."
This list includes individuals engaged in spreading disinformation and levelling unfounded accusations against Russia in relation to the special military operation. They are also involved in hostile lobbying activities, such as advocating for a tougher anti-Russia policy from the West and increased support for the Kiev regime.
The actions of these British propagandists are irresponsible. They contribute to the destabilisation of global energy markets and divert Western resources from international development to fuelling Kiev's militaristic ambitions and subsidising the Western defence industry. This, in turn, negatively impacts nations in the Global South, which already bear the historical burden of colonialism and imperialism and are now the target of Western neocolonial pursuits. London and its allies appear unbothered by this "collateral damage," even as they posture as defenders of universal values in the Ukrainian conflict.
Shortly after the commencement of Russia's special military operation, the British government escalated its anti-Russia information campaign to a new level. This approach, which includes attacks on other nations, demonstrates that similar propaganda tactics could be employed against any international actor whose actions are deemed contrary to the interests of the collective West.
The following is a list of British nationals, as well as third-country nationals collaborating with destructive British media and consulting agencies, who are now barred from entering the Russian Federation:
- Ian Roland Garner, Research Fellow at the Pilecki Institute (Poland) and the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University (Canada);
- Tom KEATINGE, Director, Centre for Finance and Security, Royal United Services Institute;
- Denis MACSHANE, former Deputy Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom and former Member of the British Parliament;
- Eleanor NICHOL, former Executive Director of the international lobbying organisation B4Ukraine;
- Imogen PAYTER, Head of UK Friends of Ukraine;
- Benjamin TALLIS, former director of Democratic Strategy Initiative (Germany) and senior executive at Helsing (Germany);
- Torrin Mark WILKINS, Director of the Centre Think Tank Foundation;
- Rafael BEHR, columnist for The Guardian;
- David Joseph BLAIR, Daily Telegraph reporter;
- Adrian David GOLDBERG, Editor and Producer, Byline TV (UK);
- Paul CONROY, freelance photographer;
- Matthew Philip SYED, columnist for The Times;
- John Paul SWEENEY, Correspondent for The Byline Times and Byline TV;
- James HOLLAND, historian, author and broadcaster;
- Neil BARNETT, Executive Director, Istok Associates Limited;
- William GEDDES, Director, International Corporate Protection Limited;
- Dominic MURPHY, Head of the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command;
- Jonathan Rupert HALL, UK Government Independent Reviewer of State Threat Legislation;
- Zarina ZABRISKI, a US citizen, freelance journalist and writer in Ukraine, collaborating with Byline TV;
- Samuel Nathan RAMANI, Canadian citizen, columnist for the Daily Telegraph; associate fellow at the Royal College of Defence Studies, and chief executive of Pangea Geopolitical Risk Ltd, a consultancy;
- Caolan ROBERTSON, Irish citizen, freelance journalist in Ukraine, collaborating with Byline TV.
The Russian "stop list" will be subject to further expansion.
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