A tourist boat passes the Kremlin buildings as it sails along the Moskva river in Moscow, Russia, on Aug. 18, 2014. (Bloomberg Photo/Andrey Rudakov)
Moscow. Russia on Friday banned several Japanese citizens from entering the country, expanding retaliatory measures against countries which have imposed sanctions over the crisis in Ukraine.
Russia’s foreign ministry said in a statement that the ban was a response to visa restrictions that Japan had imposed on a number of Russian citizens. Neither the Russian nor Japanese foreign ministries said who was on the list.
“Such counter-measures will have a negative impact on Japan-Russian relations and it is extremely …read more
Source: The Jakarta Globe