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* Russia has published its own list of US officials banned from Russia in response to the US’s list of Russian officials facing visa and financial sanctions under the Magnitsky Act, Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said
* Members of both chambers of Russia’s parliament expressed optimism that the publication of tit-for-tat lists of Russian officials banned from entering the US and vice versa would not prove a major setback in US-Russian relations
