The Kremlin confirms it has sent some of the EU member states the
blacklist of EU officials who are denied entry to Russia, according to a
leading Russian news agency.
The
"stop list" was purely and simply a response to the EU sanctions
against Russia, a senior Russian Foreign Ministry source said, according to Russian
news agency TASS.
The source confirmed that Moscow had provided the EU with a list of the EU
nationals who are denied entry to Russia; however he declined to make name-by-name comments.
"They [the lists of names] were handed over to
our European partners in confidential form, and their publication will be on
the conscience of the corresponding countries," the source added.
"The answer to certain European countries'
demands of explanations why such particular persons were put on the lists of
those who are denied entry to the Russian Federation is simple – it was
done as a response to the sanctions campaign unleashed against Russia by some
of the European Union states and led by Germany," the source said.
He admits that the United States' reaction to a
blacklist against its citizens is more adequate than that demonstrated by the
EU countries.
"There is a similar list of U.S. nationals, but it
must be noted that in this case our American partners act in a more
constructive way than our European partners do," he added.
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