Posted on 07/26/2014 11:44:42 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Although Russia has not responded to US sanctions over the Ukraine crisis by putting a travel ban on President Barack Obama, there is one part of the country he is now barred from entering: Chechnya.
On Saturday Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of the small Russian republic that has been the scene of two devastating separatist wars in the past 20 years, said he was placing Obama on a list of people banned from visiting.
The list also includes European Union figures José Manuel Barroso, Herbert van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton.
Kadyrov, wrote on his Instagram account that the ban was in response to US and EU actions in Ukraine, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, which he called "state terrorism”
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I thought Putin/Russia totally leveled Chechnya.
If only we could
We should have told that to the Nobel Prize committee
Surely this will keep him up at night crying.
Much like I would be broken up if barred from Newark.
Can Texas do the same?
We should figure out how they did that, maybe we could do it here.
Think how much could be saved if AF1 didn’t have a place to land!
Chehnya? Why would he want to got there? His sympathies aside, isn’t he likely to get shot down? They aren’t picky there.
If this is a Russian counter-sanction, it’s about as weak as the US sanctions in the other directions which target individual oligarchs’ bank accounts.
Damn good news....... now he’ll be forced to go or loose face.
They have a crappy Golf Course anyway!
How's that reset button working out for ya?
~Chehnya? Why would he want to got there? His sympathies aside, isn’t he likely to get shot down? They aren’t picky there.
If this is a Russian counter-sanction, it’s about as weak as the US sanctions in the other directions which target individual oligarchs’ bank accounts.~
It is clear to me that Ramzan is simply trolling Obamao for LOLs.
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