: On Monday "a resolution was issued to ban Italian citizen Silvio Berlusconi from entering the territory of Ukraine for the duration of three years in the interests of preserving the security of our country" Apostrophe quoted the SBU security service as saying, according to The Moscow Times. The SBU could not immediately be reached for comment. Earlier in September, Berlusconi became the most prominent Western politician to visit Russian-annexed Crimea, where he met Russian President Vladimir Putin, an old friend, in a move unlikely to have been welcomed by Kiev. A spokeswoman for Berlusconi had no immediate comment. The takeover drove relations between Moscow and the West to their lowest point since the Cold War era, and prompted the United States and European Union to slap economic sanctions on Russia. Few Western public figures have visited Crimea since Russia seized it from Ukraine in March 2014.
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