Journalists from "unfriendly countries" will not be allowed into the St Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Kremlin has said. The forum in St Petersburg, which Russian president Vladimir Putin has used to showcase the Russian economy to global investors, has been held since 1997 and is cast by many officials as Russia's answer to the World Economic Forum held in Davos. Western journalists have never before been banned from the forum in such a blanket way. "It has indeed been decided this time not to accredit publications from unfriendly countries to the SPIEF," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told TASS, using...