MFA bans de Bretton-Gordon and 29 other Britons from entering Russia

The sanctions list was supplemented by representatives of British PR companies and the defense lobby. The Russian Foreign Ministry accused the first of "directing Russophobic stories",

Russia has imposed sanctions against 30 "heads of British structures responsible for the coordinated promotion of the anti-Russian information agenda", as well as representatives of the kingdom's defense lobby.

As the reasons for the new sanctions against the UK, the department indicated an "unfriendly course", including London's discrediting of the Russian military operation in Ukraine and support for Kyiv.

The list includes, in particular:

www. Director of the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) Francis Ingham. He, according to the Foreign Ministry, "is pushing British companies to refuse to cooperate with Russian economic operators, intimidating them with the moral, ethical and reputational consequences of working in Russia." After the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, PRCA stopped accepting applications from Russian citizens and companies, and Ingham himself said that there would be no place for Russia in the industry as long as Vladimir Putin remains the president of the country.. Niki Regazzoni is the founder of the PR Network, which coordinates the work of 150 companies involved in the "information and propaganda campaign" against Russia. She and Ingham are "directing high-profile Russophobic stories in order to impose Western approaches," the Foreign Ministry said. At the end of March, the Voltaire NGO, citing journalist Dan Cohen, reported on 150 PR companies that are involved in an anti-Russian propaganda campaign and whose activities NATO oversees through the PR Network. Chemical weapons expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon - for his "provocative expert assessments" and judgments about Russia's readiness to use chemical weapons in Britain and against the civilian population of Ukraine.

The Foreign Office imposed sanctions against British journalists and commanders of the Air Force and Navy Politics

Now they are denied entry to Russia. The Foreign Ministry promised to continue work on expanding the "stop list".

Britain has imposed sanctions against Russia in response to the military operation in Ukraine. The last time London expanded the list of persons under personal sanctions at the end of July, it included 29 governors.

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Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in May that an “army of PR companies” and information warfare specialists were working in Ukraine. They, according to the Kremlin spokesman, help create fakes about the Russian special operation.