Russia has banned 30 Japanese citizens from entering the country.

Russia has indefinitely banned the entry of 30 Japanese citizens. This was announced on November 11 by the Russian Foreign Ministry.

"As part of the retaliatory measures against the ongoing so-called sanctions actions of official Tokyo against our country, linked to a special military operation, it was decided to indefinitely ban the following Japanese citizens from entering the Russian Federation," the ministry said in a statement on its website.

In particular, the official representative of the Japanese Foreign Ministry, Toshihiro Kitamura, journalists and columnists of the Nikkei newspaper, professors of Hitotsubashi University and other Japanese figures cannot visit Russia now.

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