The Russian Federation will not prohibit residents of Ukraine from entering with internal passports
Moscow - Kyiv, February 4 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - From March 1, 2015, Russian citizens will be prohibited from entering Ukraine using internal Russian passports and birth certificates for children under 14 years of age - this can only be done with foreign, official or diplomatic passports. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had previously spoken about the need to switch to mutual trips using foreign passports. But Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Yatsenyuk's statement untrue. According to him, Ukrainians will continue to be able to enter Russia using internal passports.
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“We are indeed moving with most CIS countries to mutual travel using foreign passports, while maintaining a visa-free regime, but with regard to Ukraine, taking into account the crisis that has now erupted within this country, we intend to make an exception. Our Ukrainian colleagues have been informed about this,” Lavrov explained Moscow’s official position.
Moscow was ready for this decision of the Ukrainian authorities; Ukraine has been “amputating everything Russian” in recent months, he said "Vedomosti" Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Leonid Slutsky. According to the deputy head of the Duma faction “United Russia” Franz Klintsevich, Kyiv introduced restrictions in order to provoke mirror measures from Moscow and thereby make it difficult for Ukrainian conscripts to hide in Russia from mobilization, since a potential conscript cannot receive an international passport unnoticed from the military registration and enlistment office.
Let us recall that last week Putin said that Russia will not interfere with citizens fleeing Ukrainian mobilization and will increase the period of their stay in our country without the need to obtain a patent to 90 days.
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