Passport of a citizen of the Russian Federation and Schengen visas. File photoMOSCOW, 4 Sep. Hypocritical Europe, praising the first president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev for lifting the «iron curtain», abolishing the simplified issuance of visas to Russian citizens, itself lowers it, writes the Turkish edition Evrensel. «Those who said yesterday that citizens of the USSR did not have freedom of movement, today for political reasons, this right of Russian citizens is being taken away,” the publication notes. will suffer similarly from a de facto visa ban, the article says. Moreover, Europe is no longer a continent where everyone travels easily, even as a tourist. /2022/09/ee8c46a641fdfe7a0a67b92b5cc13c41.jpg» />The Prime Minister of Ukraine demanded to arrange a «cold shower» for the RussiansEarlier, the foreign ministers of the EU countries at an informal meeting in Prague agreed to suspend the visa facilitation agreement with Russia, which would make them longer, more difficult and more expensive. At the same time, Poland, the Baltic countries and Finland intend to continue discussing visa sanctions against Russia next week. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, commenting on EU plans to suspend the visa facilitation agreement between Russia and the EU countries, said that Russia is not going to become like the European Union in unreasonable policy of «burning bridges» between people, but reserves the right to retaliate. Press Secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, in turn, said that if the EU imposes restrictions on the issuance of visas to Russians, their citizens will also face inconvenience when crossing the border. According to him, this is «another spiral of reckless Russophobic attitude» towards Russia. At the same time, earlier in the Kremlin they expressed hope for the sober thinking of the EU on the issue of issuing a Schengen visa.Read the full text of the article on the InoSMI website >>
