Russia bans two French lawmakers, two journalists in tit-for-tat move

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Russia has blacklisted two French lawmakers and two French journalists in response to France’s expulsion of a pro-Kremlin media network commentator earlier this year. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that lawmakers Sacha Houlie and Arthur Delaporte would be banned from entering Russia, along with journalists Paul Gogo and Ariane Chemin. Zakharova said the ban was for the alleged “harassment” of Xenia Fedorova, the head of RT France from 2017 to 2023. French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot described Fedorova as an “agent of influence” and expelled her in July. Fedorova, who wrote for right-wing French media, slammed “censorship” against her, while Moscow for months pledged to retaliate against “persecution”.