The German government has demanded from the Russian side, the explanations in connection with the inclusion of eight of its Residents in the black list of the 89 politicians, diplomats and military leaders of the EU countries, who are denied entry to the site of Russia. Official Berlin is in interaction with Moscow " and " insists on transparency in addressing this issue, stressed the foreign Ministry of Germany. Persons included in the list, you can know the grounds on which they are denied entry, indicated in the authorities, reports the news Agency. according to the Newspapers Bild and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the black list was sent to the Russian side in a number of diplomatic missions of European countries in the Russian Federation. Among the German Residents of, who are denied entry to the Russian Federation, - the people's Deputy of the Bundestag CDU Karl-Georg Wellmann, Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU in the Bundestag, Michael Fuchs, the deputies of the European Parliament from green Rebecca harms and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, the Secretary General of the EU Council Uwe Corsepius, state Secretary in the Ministry of defence of Germany Catherine Souder, member of the CSU Bernd Posselt and inspector (commander) of the German air force, Lieutenant General Karl Muellner. Before in a Finnish and German media turned out to be a copy transmitted by the Moscow embassies of the EU countries list of 89 officials banned from entry to the site of Russia. Remember, the EU has addressed to Moscow with the request to publish official lists of persons banned from entering Russia, so that they did not know about her status at the border, as happened with people's Deputy of the Bundestag Karl-Georg Wellmann. Moscow imposed the punishment relative to European politicians, bureaucrats and military in response to similar restrictions adopted by the European Union in the past year because of the incident over Ukraine. The Russian side decided not to publish their blacklists, advising foreigners before the trip to go to the Russian Embassy in the EU member States. Those who did not make, get in an unpleasant situation. So, to the Russian Federation were unable to enter the member of the European Parliament from Germany's Rebecca harms and employees of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Thomas Schneider - both of imposed sanctions against them learned upon arrival in the Russian capital. However, after the incident with the German people's Deputy, the Russian authorities have softened their position: Deputy head of the foreign Minister Alexei Meshkov has admitted that Moscow will announce the names of banned Europeans.
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