{"id":60883,"date":"2021-04-17T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=60883"},"modified":"2021-04-17T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T15:30:29","slug":"bidens-warmongering-secretary-of-state-antony-blinken-banned-by-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=60883","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Warmongering Secretary of State Antony Blinken Banned by Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Putin bites back at Biden&#8217;s sanctions by expelling 10 diplomats and banning top officials including Secretary of State Blinken from Moscow as tensions soar<\/h2>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><b>Moscow banned a number of top Biden officials in retaliation\u00a0for the sanctions\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Includes Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice and FBI chief Christopher Wray\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters that Russia was responding to US sanctions in &#8216;a tit-for-tat manner&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>However the Kremlin did say they viewed prospects of a summit &#8216;positively&#8217;\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Tensions on the Ukrainian border are also building with Russia&#8217;s troop build-up<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Putin on Thursday closed the Kerch Strait to all foreign warships for six months\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By\u00a0<a class=\"author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=&amp;authornamef=Afp\" rel=\"nofollow\">AFP<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Russia on Friday banned top officials from Joe Biden&#8217;s administration from entering the country and expelled 10 US diplomats from Moscow as it announced a wave of tit-for-tat sanctions amid soaring tensions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Moscow nonetheless said it viewed the prospect of a summit between Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin this summer &#8216;positively&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">On Thursday, Washington announced sanctions and the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats in retaliation for what it says is interference by the Kremlin in US elections, a massive cyber attack and other hostile activity, including troop movement on the Ukrainian border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Moscow hit back by saying top US officials including Attorney General Merrick Garland, Biden&#8217;s chief Domestic Policy Advisor Susan Rice, and FBI chief Christopher Wray would not be welcome in Russia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Earlier Friday Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters that Russia was asking ten US diplomats to leave the country.They also kicked out five Polish diplomats in response to a similar move by Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Lavrov also said that Putin&#8217;s top foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov, had recommended that US envoy John Sullivan leave for Washington to conduct &#8216;serious consultations&#8217; with the President.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Tensions on the Ukrainian border are also building with Russia&#8217;s troop build-up. Putin on Thursday closed the Kerch Strait to all foreign warships for six months.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9480205\/Russia-bans-Biden-officials-tensions-soar.html\">https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9480205\/Russia-bans-Biden-officials-tensions-soar.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putin bites back at Biden&#8217;s sanctions by expelling 10 diplomats and banning top officials including Secretary of State Blinken from Moscow as tensions soar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}