The building of the State Duma of the Russian Federation on Okhotny Ryad Street in Moscow. File photoMOSCOW, April 20The State Duma at a plenary session on April 20 will consider a bill to abolish the simplified procedure for issuing visas with a number of European countries. Earlier, the government submitted to the lower house of parliament a bill to suspend the simplified issuance of visas to a number of categories of citizens of the EU, Denmark, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland, including journalists and official delegations. It is noted that a draft federal law «On the suspension by the Russian Federation of certain provisions of international treaties of the Russian Federation with the European Community, the Kingdom of Denmark, Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Kingdom of Norway, the Swiss Confederation on the simplification of issuing visas to citizens of the Russian Federation and the European Union, The Kingdom of Denmark, Iceland, the Principality of Liechtenstein, the Kingdom of Norway, the Swiss Confederation. and diplomatic passports, as well as the abolition of visa preferences for the relevant members of official delegations, national and regional governments and parliaments, constitutional and supreme courts and journalists. «Earlier, there was a decree by Russian President Vladimir Putin» On retaliatory visa measures in connection with unfriendly actions of foreign states «. In particular, he suspends the norm according to which the holders of diplomatic passports could enter the territory of Russia without visas. Also, Putin's decree on retaliatory visa measures involves the abolition of several clauses of the agreement on the simplified issuance of visas to citizens of the European Union — the measures will affect official delegations and journalists. called the reason why Poland does not issue visas in Kaliningrad
