Russia bans 100 Canadians including Margaret Atwood, Jim Carrey
Posted November 14, 2022 6:08 pm.
Last Updated November 14, 2022 6:10 pm.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced Monday that 100 Canadians had been added to the list of people banned from entering the country in response to sanctions against Russia by Canada.
A ministry statement said author Margaret Atwood, actor Jim Carrey and Amy Knight, a noted historian of the KGB, were on the banned list.
The ministry said they and the other 97, many of whom are connected to ethnic Ukrainian organizations, were banned because of involvement in the “formation of (Canada’s) aggressively anti-Russian course.”
Dang! @JimCarrey and I had planned a little naughty weekend getaway in Moscow. Guess it will have to be Kyiv instead. https://t.co/FzGkiqiVJK
— Margaret E Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) November 14, 2022
Atwood acknowledged Russia’s latest sanction on Twitter, saying she and Carrey “had planned a little naughty weekend getaway in Moscow.”
“Guess it will have to be Kyiv instead,” Atwood’s tweet read.
Carrey has often commented on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, tweeting in February that it “breaks my heart to see innocent people (especially children) put in harm’s way by yet another of history’s grandiose political jerks. Beware the unloved.”
With files from The Associated Press
