Statement by the Spokesperson of the MFA
30 May 2015 News
In the afternoon of May 29 the Foreign Ministry received information by Bulgaria's Embassy to Moscow regarding a list communicated by the EU delegation in Moscow of EU nationals who are banned from entering the Russian Federation. The list contains the names of 89 people, including the Bulgarian citizen Ilian Vassilev.
The Russian side has provided the list at the insistence of the EU in relation to the recent frequent cases of denied access of European citizens who did not have any prior information in this regard. Besides names, the Russian side has not provided any reasoning or legal justification for banning access. In this sense the Bulgarian side, together with our other partners in the EU will seek explanations for each individual case of a European citizen, who was refused access to the Russian Federation.