The United States imposed sanctions against the "anti-globalist" and "creative diplomat"

Alexander Ionov, the head of an organization that gathered separatists from around the world in Moscow, fell under the restrictions. Sanctionsalso introduced in relation to Natalia Burlinova, an expert in international relationsAlexander Ionov

The US expanded sanctions against Russia, imposing restrictions on two people and four entities associated with them. The president of the Center for Support and Development of Public Initiatives - Creative Diplomacy Natalya Burlinova (an expert of the Russian Council on International Affairs) and the president of the anti-globalization movement of Russia Alexander Ionov were sanctioned.

It was after Ionov’s denunciation that Meduza was recognized in Russia as a foreign media agent. Ionov asked to be recognized as a foreign agent and The Bell. The Ministry of Justice eventually entered the founder of the project, Elizaveta Osetinskaya, and editor-in-chief, Irina Malkova, into the register of foreign agents.

Ionov is also known for the fact that in 2016 his movement organized the “Dialogue of Nations” conference in Moscow, to which, for example, representatives of the “Nationalist Movement of Texas”, separatists from Catalonia, Hawaii, Latin America, as well as delegates from the DPR were invited and LNR.

The State Department compared the sanctions against Russia with the recognition of its sponsor of terrorism Politics

In addition to the organizations headed by Burlinova and Ionov, Ionov Transcontinental LLC and the portal stop-imperialism.com, which positions itself as a "world news agency", also fell under the sanctions.

Creative Diplomacy positions itself as an organization that connects with young leaders in the US and Europe. According to Burlinova, she "specializes in soft power and public diplomacy."

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“I don’t know how the sanctions will affect me and my activities, I don’t think so. I don't have any connections or accounts in the US. I should probably beat my chest and say that it's cool to be on such a list, but I feel disappointed: they imposed sanctions against an organization that tried to establish contact with the United States, now there is nothing left between our countries. We have never been seen in such "Russian propaganda" as they call it. On the contrary, we have an English-language program, we have always promoted it, it is done at the expense of the Presidential Grants Fund, this is a normal practice, ”RBC Burlinova commented.

“They have exhausted the limit of sanctions, since they sink to our ant level, they impose sanctions against the mother of two children, who has never been seen in anything. I build bridges and they destroy them. I don’t care, I was in America, I managed to travel, I don’t have any property there, but it’s very sad. I don’t have any assets, I don’t have accounts there, it’s more of a political sign, they mark all Russian NGOs that are at least somehow engaged in public diplomacy,” she continued.