Mass media: Czech Republic will bring up a question of a ban on visas to Russians at a meeting of Foreign Ministers of EU

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Presiding in Council of European Union Czech Republic initiates discussion of a question of a ban of issue of Schengen visas to Russians at an informal meeting of Foreign Ministers of the countries of EU which will take place in Prague at the end of August. It was declared by the Czech Minister of Foreign Affairs Ian Lipavsky, transfers information agency "ITAR-TASS" with reference to the agency publication to France Presse. Earlier the initiative to forbid issue of tourist Schengen visas for Russians was taken by a number of the Finnish parliamentarians, and also the authorities Latvia and Estonia. Thus in Yevropeyskaya commission noted that rules of EU do not allow to forbid completely issue of visas to citizens Russian Federation, but the decision about...