The Foreign Office has banned entry to British journalists and the head of the police department.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced retaliatory sanctions against 21 British citizens, who have been barred from entering the country. This information was published on the ministry's website.

"A decision has been made to include a number of representatives of the UK media, NGOs, consulting firms, and the expert community on the Russian 'stop list,'" the statement reads.

Specifically, the list includes Ian Roland Garner, a research fellow at the Pilecki Institute and the Centre for International and Defence Policy at Queen's University; Tom Keating, DIRECTOR of the Centre for Finance and Security at the Royal United Services Institute; and Denis MacShane, a former UK Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and former Member of Parliament. Dominic Murphy, head of the Metropolitan Police's Counter-Terrorism Command, has also been banned from entering RUSSIA.

The register also includes a number of journalists: Guardian columnist Raphael Behr, Telegraph correspondent David Blair, Byline TV editor and producer Adrienne David Goldberg, Byline Times and Byline TV correspondent John Paul Swinney, Byline TV freelance journalists Zarina Zabriskie and Kaylin Robertson, and The Daily Telegraph columnist Samuel Nathan Ramani.

Sanctions were also imposed on Eleanor Nicola, former executive director of the international lobbying organization B4Ukraine; Imogen Pater, head of the NGO British Friends of Ukraine; Benjamin Tallis, former director of the NGO Democratic Strategy Initiative; and Mark Wilkins, director of the NGO Think Tank Center.

Those sanctioned included freelance photographer Paul Conroy, publicist James Holland, executive director of the consulting agency Istok Associates Limited Neil Barnett, and director of the consulting company International Corporate Protection Limited William Giddes.

In addition, measures were introduced against the UK government's counter-terrorism commissioner, Jonathan Rupert Hall.

On August 20, the UK Treasury expanded its list of anti-Russian sanctions. Three individuals and five legal entities were added. These included the crypto exchange Grinex, registered in Russia and Kyrgyzstan, the Kyrgyz Kapital Bank, and the companies TengriCoin and Old Vector from Bishkek.

Among the individuals on the sanctions list is Leonid Shumakov, head of A7A5. Also on the list are Zhanyshbek uulu Nazarbek (according to the Kyrgyz Ministry of Justice, he heads the Kyrgyz Republic Trading Company OJSC) and Kantemir Chalbaev, Chairman of the Board of Kapital Bank.

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