Vladimir Dobrovolsky. The European Union is familiar with the list of the 89 persons banned from entering the Russian Federation, and considers unfounded the measure, said the official representative of the head of EU diplomacy Federica Mogherini.
"currently, the List of 89 names was shown by the Russian authorities. We have no further information about any legal justification, nor on the criteria and decision-making process. We believe this measure is completely arbitrary and unjustified, especially in the lack of further clarification and transparency, " said Commissioner Federica Mogherini.
according to him, the EU is in close contact with member countries on the issue.
first Deputy head of the foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov has confirmed that the black list of undesirable persons in the Russian Federation exist, and Moscow is consciously pursuing a policy of non-disclosure of names from these lists.
The document contains 89 names, and among them, about 20 current and 10 former members of the European Parliament, current and former Directors of intelligence services of Britain and the countries of the Baltic sea, a number of British, German, Polish and Estonian military of Directors, and the Deputy head of the Romanian state company " Transgaz ".
the list includes Authorized 17 out of 27 EU countries. The fifth part of the list are Authorized Poland (18 names), followed by Britain (9), Sweden, Estonia (8), Germany, Lithuania (7), Latvia and Romania (5). In the list of commissioners of Austria, Hungary, Ireland, Cyprus, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Croatia, Luxembourg and Malta.
Western countries since March 2014 several times already imposed penalties because Russia's position on Ukraine. The last case of the use of such practices were the limits imposed in March 2015, when expanded sanctions List of the USA.
The list of Russian citizens and organizations who have fallen under the punishment - in the material of the Fins news
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