The deputy director of the department of information and press of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, has announced that Moscow won't publish the response list of EU representatives barred from the Russian Federation. "Russia took responsive measures," ITAR-TASS quotes Zakharova. "We have no such practice (publishing Russian lists of European officials to whom entry to the Russian Federation is forbidden). We don't publish such lists." "Those western colleagues who feel they could be on the list should recheck it before a trip to Russia through diplomatic channels," Zakharova noted. "These sanctions are not a whim of ours, they are exclusively a countermeasure."
The deputy director of the department of information and press of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, has announced that Moscow won't publish the response list of EU representatives barred from the Russian Federation. "Russia took responsive measures," ITAR-TASS quotes Zakharova. "We have no such practice (publishing Russian lists of European officials to whom entry to the Russian Federation is forbidden). We don't publish such lists."
"Those western colleagues who feel they could be on the list should recheck it before a trip to Russia through diplomatic channels," Zakharova noted.
"These sanctions are not a whim of ours, they are exclusively a countermeasure."
