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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-996/
- Published: 2024-07-03T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-07-03T04:00:17.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ Politics, Politics, Travel, World Politics, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-20 04:39

> Moscow is off the travel menu for New Plymouth mayor Neil Holdom after his name was added to a burgeoning list of New Zealanders now banned from entering Russia.  
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> Holdom found out at the weekend that he had been included in a list released by the Russian foreign ministry detailing the latest people excluded from entering its borders.  
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> Just why or what he had allegedly done to upset those associated with the Kremlin remained a mystery to the third-term mayor.  
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> “Shortly after the conflict started I did attend a function in support of Ukraine and we did fly the Ukraine flag outside council, so I wonder if one of the Kremlin operatives in New Plymouth had clocked that and fed it back to the mother ship,” he said.  
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> Holdom confirmed the ban had not meant any changes to future travel plans to Eastern Europe.  
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