The Russian foreign Ministry expresses regret that due to the decision of the Kyiv to introduce to the citizens of Russia ban on entering the space of Ukraine on civil passport, but do not want to introduce a similar measure for Ukrainians. "Official notification from the Ukrainian side We until we didn't. It, apparently, is about the Ukrainian party's decision to abandon a comfortable and liberal mode of Russians traveling to the Ukraine, which stipulates the applicable Agreement between the government of the Russian Federation and the government of Ukraine on visa-free trips of Citizens of the Russian Federation and Ukraine of January 16, 1997 and the Protocol from October 30, 2004 on the introduction of the changes referred to in the contract ", - reported in the report on the Internet office of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. The Ministry said that " nothing but regret this decision of the Kyiv cannot provoke, as a result of such actions of the Ukrainian side will greatly complicated by the contacts between millions of people in 2 countries, and related cross-border communications." We, on the contrary, on the basis of humanitarian considerations, we consider it important to preserve the order of crossing the border, " added the Agency. Remember, on Tuesday, Ukraine on behalf of the President of Petro Poroshenko has banned the entry of Russian citizens on internal passports. The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Ukraine explained the initiative, because This will give the possibility to organize trips of Russian Citizens in Ukraine and to establish an effective mechanism to monitor their presence on our territory." Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that such events will answer as if the decision of the Russian leadership, the decision requiring all foreigners whose countries are not included in the EEU, to enter the Russian Federation only on foreign passports. In response, the Russian foreign Ministry has accused Yatsenyuk in a lie." If I heard correctly, the Prime Minister Yatsenyuk said, It's as if Putin's initiative, which some time ago expressed this idea - and here in Kyiv heard it, - said the head of the Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia S. Lavrov.. Is not true - that said Yatsenyuk ". Lavrov also explained Russia and the truth goes with most of the CIS member States on mutual travel on foreign passports, while maintaining a visa-free regime, but about Ukraine, given the fact of the fall, which is within this state at the present time broke out, We have plans to make an exception. Our Ukrainian colleagues informed about It ".
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