Lithuania was denied a visa to the Russian because of the stamps in my passport about Crimea
The Consulate General of Lithuania in Kaliningrad refused to issue visas to the Russian citizen, the passport which is in the form of place of birth was listed Republic of Crimea as part of Russia, said Last news the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevi?ius.
According to the Minister, a Russian citizen contacted the Consulate General of Lithuania for the document simplified transit, which is in Accordance with European Union law is equivalent to a Schengen transit visa.
"In accordance with the Visa code has a legal basis for refusal to issue Schengen visas, if there is a reasonable doubt about the authenticity of the submitted document or the accuracy of its content. I won't deny that there are deep and political reasons, but purely technically, We have doubts about the authenticity of the documents of the citizen, since the passport was issued 3 months before the Crimean events, even in the early winter of 2013, " explained Linkevicius.
The foreign Ministry released on Twitter photo of the passport, which shows that in the column "place of birth "" Republic of Crimea/Russia ", the date of birth of the owner of the passport - 1992, and the passport was issued on 24 December 2013 - even before the reunification of the Crimea with Russia.
at the same time, Employees of the Russian Embassy in Vilnius did not want to comment on the incident." We until can't comment on this data, " said Last news Ombudsman of the Russian diplomatic vedomctva.
Crimea again became a Russian region after the March 2014 referendum in which a Large number of residents at that time still Ukrainian autonomy, do not recognise the legitimacy of the February coup in Ukraine, voted for joining the Russian Federation. In the capital of Russia notice that the referendum in Crimea complies with international law and the UN Charter.