Russia bars 18 Americans in retaliation for Magnitsky List

With the aid of Steve Gutterman MOSCOW (Reuters) – Moscow said on Saturday that Washington had dealt a severe blow to relations by way of barring 18 Russians from the United States over alleged human rights abuses, and in retaliation it banned 18 American citizens from coming into Russia. U.S. President Barack Obama's administration had on Friday issued an inventory of 18 folks subject to visa bans and asset freezes in the USA beneath the Magnitsky Act rules passed by way of Congress late last year. "Beneath force from Russophobic participants of the U.S. …