Russia adds Republican senator Lindsey Graham to ‘terrorists and extremists’ list
by Martin Pengelly in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#6JRP0)
South Carolina lawmaker is one of more than 12,000 individuals on list kept by Russia's state financial monitoring agency
The Republican senator Lindsey Graham, a key ally of Donald Trump, has been added to a list of terrorists and extremists" kept by Russia's state financial monitoring agency.
Tass, the state-run news agency, first reported the move by Rosfinmonitoring, which allows authorities to freeze Russian bank accounts, though in Graham's case is likely to be chiefly symbolic.
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