Kremlin responds to EU blacklist with its own...
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
04.03.2015 15:33
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Kremlin responds to EU blacklist with its own...
The Kremlin has backlashed at the EU with its own unpublished black list of banned names.
A man at the site of killing of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov in central Moscow. Photo: PAP/EPA/SERGEI ILNITSK
As Sławek Szefs reports, the opportunity arrived with Tuesday's funeral ceremonies for the assassinated Russian opposition campaigner Boris Nemtsov in Moscow.
They were preceded by a surprising decision of the Kremlin to ban some foreign representatives coming from EU countries from attending on grounds that they pose a threat to Russian state security.
One of those denied entry was Poland's Senate speaker Bogdan Borusewicz, a former top ranking Solidarity leader and friend of the late Boris Nemtsov.
“This list can be freely altered and extended. This means in practice that a person arriving in Russia who would be suspected of even potentially willing to manifest political or any other beliefs which run counter to Kremlin policy can have this used against him or her,” Jędrzej Czerep from the Otwarty Dialog (Open Dialogue Foundation) told Polish Radio.