The Russian Foreign Ministry has imposed personal sanctions against 500 US citizens, according to the agency's website.
Former US President Barack Obama, former head of the Homeland Security three senators from the Republican Party, several dozen experts and think tank employees, former and current officials.
As noted in the message of the Foreign Ministry, the Americans, who fell under the restrictions, are involved in the «spread of Russophobic installations and fakes», the supply of weapons to Ukraine, as well as the «persecution of dissidents in the wake of the so-called. «assault on the Capitol».