Russia “take. in the ring “- EU countries close for Russian tourists visas and connections To the south of Sunday,” closing the sky “has already announced 21 countries.
So far (Sunday evening), 21 countries have announced the “closure of the sky.” We will remind, at the moment of Saturday their number gradually increased from seven to nine. Here are the main members of the anti-Russian tourist bloc:
- Poland – does not issue visas to Russian tourists. In addition, the country is an airspace for Russian carriers with the onset of Saturday local time. “Relevant norms are being developed immediately,” he said. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki also instructed the government to prepare a resolution to close the country’s airspace to Russian airlines.
- Czech Republic – also not only does not issue visas to Russian tourists, but also closed offices, although leaving loopholes – they are closed in Karlovy Vary and Brno in the Czech Republic and in St. Petersburg and Ekaterinburg in Russia, in Prague and Moscow conditionally continue to work. The country has also joined in closing the skies.
- Latvia does not issue visas to tourists and is discussing closing the sky.
- Lithuania does not issue visas to Russian tourists.
- Belgium does not issue visas to Russian tourists – and, moreover, “pushes” this initiative across the EU. Belgian Refugee Minister Sammy Mahdi said that his country would stop issuing visas to Russians, especially tourists, and called on all EU leaders to follow suit: “At the moment, Russians are not happy taboo. ”
- Britain closed the skies to Russian airlines, Russia responded symmetrically.
- Bulgaria joined the closure initiative on Friday night. At the same time, the closing date was announced – May 25, exactly before the beginning of the summer tourist season.
- On Saturday afternoon, Estonia announced that it was closing the airspace to Russian aircraft.
- Romania also closed its airspace on Saturday afternoon.
- The tenth participant in the list was Slovenia , which also announced the closure of its airspace on Saturday.
Austria became the eleventh country on Sunday. - Next Sunday, Italy joined this list of countries that closed the skies,
- Sweden ,
- Germany – the country closed the sky for 3 months,
- Netherlands ,
- Norway ,
- France ,
- Northern Macedonia ,
- Canada ,
- Spain
In the second half of Sunday, Aeroflot decided to cancel all international flights to Europe in the near future.
At the same time, Russian tourism is threatened by troubles from another, rather unexpected side. Read the details in the article “The end of Russian tourism: Foreign tourists tours to the country are being canceled en masse“.