Go to the media bankDeputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Ryabkov. File photoMOSCOW, Sep 2Moscow may respond asymmetrically to EU visa restrictions, practical measures will be taken, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said. open options on how to react to this. Maybe asymmetrical, asymmetric. as they say now, the reaction. Practical measures, of course, will be taken,» he said on the air of the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
Russia will not be like the EU in burning bridges, MIDryabkov said, adding that the EU and its member countries are essentially renouncing those values and postulates that they, as it now turns out , hypocritically and duplicitously promoted for many years. On August 31, at an informal meeting in Prague, the EU Foreign Ministers agreed to suspend the Agreement on Facilitating the Issuance of Visas between Russia and the EU, which will make them longer Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, commenting on EU plans to suspend the visa facilitation agreement between Russia and EU countries, said earlier that Russia is not going to become like the EU in its unreasonable policy of «burning bridges» between people, but leaves behind 
The UN will continue to work with the US on issuing visas to Russian diplomats
