[THEGUARDIAN] Although Russia has not responded to US sanctions over the Ukraine crisis by putting a travel ban on President Barack ObamaI am the change that you seek...
, there is one part of the country he is now barred from entering: Chechnya.
On Saturday Ramzan Kadyrov, the president of the small Russian republic that has been the scene of two devastating separatist wars in the past 20 years, said he was placing Obama on a list of people banned from visiting.
The list also includes European Union
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figures Jose Manuel Barroso, Herbert van Rompuy and Catherine Ashton.
Kadyrov, wrote on his Instagram account that the ban was in response to US and EU actions in Ukraine, Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, which he called "state terrorism
... any action taken by a non-Moslem state that constrains the violent impulses of Moslems or their allies ...
On Saturday, the Russian foreign ministry released a strongly worded statement blaming the US, in part, for the Ukraine crisis.
"The United States continues to push Kiev into the forceful repression of [Ukraine's] Russian-speaking population's discontent," the statement said. "There is one conclusion — the B.O. regime has some responsibility both for the internal conflict in Ukraine and its severe consequences."