One redoubt is finding itself under fire, a small group of typewriter users who fear they are about to be declared personae non gratae at, of all places, the Writers Room in Greenwich Village.

It did not include 11 Iraqi diplomats declared personae non grata who were given several days to pack and leave.

It also strictly refuses entry to foreigners in general whose passport shows evidence of entry into the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, immediately declaring them permanent personae non gratae.

In Portugal Russia should be asked to treat Transnistrian separatists declared personae non gratae by the European Union as a genuine partner would, by prohibiting the Transnistrian elite from travelling across Russia's borders.