Estonia and Finland want fellow European countries to stop issuing tourist visas to Russian citizens

[yaesu]

saying they should not be able to take holidays in Europe while the Russian government carries out a war in Ukraine.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas wrote on Tuesday on Twitter that “visiting Europe is a privilege, not a human right” and that it is “time to end tourism from Russia now”, the Associated Press reported.

A day earlier, her counterpart in Finland, Sanna Marin, told Finnish broadcaster YLE that “it is not right that while Russia is waging an aggressive, brutal war of aggression in Europe, Russians can live a normal life, travel in Europe, be tourists”.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy went further in a Washington Post interview on Monday, saying all Western countries should ban Russian tourists.

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get it done, keep all russians out of western countries until they "dispose" of putin and his evil deputies.

[AlexSFCA]

1. 100%

and USA, Canada, Australia, etc. should join the ban on issuing visas if not already.

[yaesu]

4. it would sure help with espionage and russian mob problems also. nt

[TigressDem]

2. Only actual defections from the country should be allowed.

People in Russia who can afford to travel are part of the problem, but average Russian citizens don't have a lot of power.

RUSSIA is NOW set up to punish and imprison anyone who stands against the government.

THIS is what tRump is trying to establish in America.

I don't hate the Russian people, just their corrupt system and Oligarchs.

[yaesu]

3. yes, well vetted defections. nt

[TigressDem]

5. Agreed. nt