It is reported by TASS.

“Yes, Taylor Swift performed at the graduation ceremony at New York University.

But my apparatus did not allow me to bring my guitar here to dedicate “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together” to President Putin,” Blinken joked.

According to the head of the State Department, the apparatus noted that such a step would be undiplomatic.

Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry blacklisted 398 US Congressmen in response to another wave of anti-Russian sanctions imposed by the Joe Biden administration on 328 State Duma deputies.

The agency also released a list of names of 963 American citizens who are banned from entering Russia on a permanent basis.