US Announces Visa Restrictions on Russians

[jakeXT]

Source: Associated Press

The White House is imposing visa restrictions on Russians and Crimeans who it says are "threatening the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine."

In addition, President Barack Obama has signed an executive order authorizing sanctions against "individuals and entities responsible for activities undermining democratic processes or institutions in Ukraine."

The new action on visas comes in addition to a U.S. policy denying visas to those involved in human rights abuses related to political oppression in Ukraine.

The White House announcement comes as Western nations have been wrestling with a response to Russia's military incursion into Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/us-announces-visa-restrictions-russians-22796425

---

I guess Nuland & Co. are unaffected...

[cosmicone]

1. What about the fascists and neonazis

who deposed a democratically elected government with violence?

[jakeXT]

2. What were the consequences in 1933 when they tried it here ?

The Whitehouse Coup

Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen

The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20070723.shtml

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. What about the DU poster who posted factually unsupported, loaded questions? nt

[TwilightGardener]

6. Heh.

[Xithras]

9. Interestingly, the U.S. has denied visas to Svoboda leaders for years.

Long before the uprising, the U.S. government classified them as a neo-Nazi political organization and blacklisted them.

[cosmicone]

10. and now we are supporting them?

Looks like John Kerry was against them before he was for them.

[joshcryer]

3. Russian oligarchs won't like this.

[MADem]

4. Yep--they like it over this way. Nice place to visit, and all that.... nt

[geek tragedy]

7. they won't be able to visit their $5 million pieds-a-terre in Manhattan.

Oops, they won't be able to sell them now either.

[FSogol]

8. Haw! They'll just use Mastercard or Discover!