MOSCOW — Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced Saturday that it was expanding its list of Americans barred from the country, including a US representative and several senior military officers.
Alexander Lukashevich, the ministry spokesman, said in a statement that the new list extended measures to bar Americans involved in human rights violations, the persecution of Russians, and the abuse of children adopted from Russia.
The announcement followed a round of sanctions imposed Wednesday by Washington against major Russian companies and individuals, the third such measure this year.
Lukashevich said Russia was adding to a list started last year of barred US officials connected to the prisons at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and Abu Ghraib in Iraq. Also, in response to US sanctions against members of the Russian Parliament, Moscow banned entry to Representative James P. Moran, a Virginia Democrat.
“He has more than once been accused of financial fraud but each time avoided responsibility,” the statement said. “One can find a lot of information on the Internet about his ‘feats’ and special attitude toward our country.”
Moran announced this year that he was retiring after 24 years in the House. Last year, he worked to ban the Pentagon from purchasing from the Russian state arms dealer, Rosoboronexport, and he recently supported continued funding for an exchange program that he said helped young opponents of President Vladimir V. Putin.
The two Americans placed on the sanctions list for their connection to the Guantánamo Bay prison were Rear Admiral Richard W. Butler, the previous prison commander, and Gladys Kessler, a senior judge for the US District Court in Washington. Both were involved in carrying out the decision to force-feed prisoners on hunger strike, according to the list on the Russian ministry’s website.
The Americans sanctioned for their involvement with Abu Ghraib included Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of the US forces in Iraq in 2003-04, when the scandal over the torture of detainees there erupted. Lower-ranking soldiers convicted of roles in the abuse were also listed.
The tit-for-tat sanctions lists are another reflection of the poor state of relations between Washington and Moscow.
The United States began sanctions against Russian officials starting in late 2012 with the passage of the Magnitsky Act, intended to rebuke Russian officials involved in the death of Sergei Magnitsky, a Russian lawyer who died in prison after trying to investigate tax corruption.
Washington has imposed three rounds of sanctions against Russia since its March annexation of Crimea.
The latest round, on Wednesday, included financial restrictions against major Russian companies such as Rosneft in response to what the United States said was continued arms flow to separatists in eastern Ukraine.