Chairman of the Committee of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation on constitutional legislation and state building Andrey Klishas. Archival photoMOSCOW, Aug. 31When terminating an agreement with Russia on simplified visas for Russians, the European Union will receive a mirror response, head of the Constitutional Committee of the Federation Council Andrey Klishas told RIA Novosti. EU votes decided to terminate the visa facilitation agreement with the Russian Federation. At the same time, there will be no general ban on visas for Russians. «My position is that by terminating this agreement, the EU and its citizens will deprive all the benefits of obtaining visas,» the politician said. He added that «the European Union will receive a mirror response to all restrictions on the rights of our citizens.» Moscow considers proposals to ban the issuance of Schengen visas to all Russian citizens as a manifestation of chauvinism, such statements by European politicians will not remain without consequences — «we will have to answer for them,» he said earlier Ivan Nechaev, Deputy Director of the Information and Press Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry
