Almost 1,500 foreigners, including over 100 artists, were banned from entering Ukraine in 2017 due to visiting the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, according to the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine.
The SBU Security Service of Ukraine said its operatives had blocked further destructive activities by Russian journalist Maria Kniazeva, who used the alias Saushkina in her reports from Ukraine for Rossiya-1 and Rossiya-24 TV channels.
Dusko Markovic, the Prime Minister of Montenegro, said he was disappointed with Moscow's move on issuing an entry ban against his country’s politicians who had backed Montenegro’s accession to NATO, Europeiska Pravda reported citing CDM.me.