Declared persona non-grata by Russian Federation

A Badge of Honor

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This week the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs updated its list of individual American citizens sanctioned by the Russian government. This list has been actively updated since the invasion of Ukraine and includes virtually every American that has publically acted in opposition or even spoken out against Moscow’s ongoing invasion - ranging from President Biden and Defense Secretary Austin to individual researchers at the Carnegie Moscow Center.

The recent additions to the list are available on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Website linked here. The full list of sanctioned American citizens is available here.

With regards to the sanctions that have been levied against me, I can calmly say that Moscow’s bark is worse than its bite. Unlike the sanctioned Russian oligarchs hiding money in western bank accounts there’s not much that Moscow can take away from me - I’m not planning any vacations in Crimea until Kyiv’s victory and liberation of the Peninsula, and I don’t think a visit to the Kremlin or a lecture Moscow State University is in the cards.

What matters, however, is that the work of myself and the people nearest me continues to draw the Kremlin’s eye.