Authorized EU deliberately leaked blacklists European politicians, who are forbidden to stay on the territory of the Russian Federation, the head of the Department of the Federation Council on international Affairs Konstantin Kosachev. The Senator believes that the leak of this information " was deliberate "." It was designed to make the most of this situation to aggravate, provoke, and try to people who are not very experienced in all of these problems, to present the situation as a unilateral and not a reasoned act from Russia ", - said the Deputy, reports news Agency. He said that the leakage of such information is not normal practice." These lists, as far as I am aware, were transferred to the representatives of the EU with a warning that they are not of a public character, "said the Senator, noting that" don't do partners, and EU officials should apologize for this incident. Explaining the issue of the existence of black lists for real, He said that Russia is not initiated their compilation. According to the Senator, any black lists " are meaningless and have no prospects." The sooner they are lifted from the European Union, the faster we will return to normal cooperation, "He said, noting that" to ask, to beg someone to These lists have been cancelled, Russia ought not ". First foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the leak to the media of the Russian blacklist people in the European Union violates ethical standards. As the Deputy Director of the Department of information and press of the Russian foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the reaction of the European diplomats that the Russian side gave them a list of persons against whom punishment imposed, is a manifestation of depravity. For its part the President's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow at the request of the European Union gave its own blacklist of Europeans
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