Russia puts 89 western leaders on secret ban list

Clegg had said it was “unthinkable” that Russia should keep the tournament.

 

He has been joined on the no-go list by eight other Britons, including former UK foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind.

 

Andrew Parker, director general of MI5, Sir John Sawers, the former head of MI6, and Philip Dunne, a defence minister, are also reported to be on the list, Sunday Times reported.

 

Russian authorities drew up the list, the details of which remain sketchy, in response to European Union travel bans on Putin’s cronies over Russia’s annexation of Crimea last year.

 

Meanwhile, the UK foreign and Commonwealth office said: “There is no justification for this list. And the Russian authorities have not provided any legal basis for the list or for the names on it”.

 

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