KIEV: Ukrainian officials on Sunday said they had blocked several Russian journalists who visited the annexed Crimea peninsula from entering the country to cover the Eurovision Song Contest in Kiev.
Border service spokesman Oleg Slobodyan said two unnamed Russian journalists were on Sunday “not allowed across the frontier and banned from entering Ukraine for three years” over visits they made to the Crimea region seized by Moscow.
“The state border service notes that having accreditation for Eurovision does not give you the right to cross the border,” Slobodyan wrote on Facebook.
Officials said on Saturday they had also banned a Russian state news …read more
Source: The News International
