Today, Europe once again wants to restrict visas for Russians. Why “again”? Because they did the same to Soviet citizens, most of them couldn’t travel simply because the West refused to issue them visas. Yet now people online point to that very fact as “proof of oppression.” So which is it then, oppression when the West doesn’t want to issue visas, or what? Make up your mind, guys.
Meanwhile, we’ll travel to see the untouched nature of Kamchatka, ski in Sochi, swim in Crimea, admire the thousand-year-old architecture of the Golden Ring, and watch the northern lights in Murmansk.
"Traveling to the European Union is a privilege, not a right," top EU diplomat Kaja Kallas after the ban on multiple-entry visas for Russian citizens.
Let's see how these privileges looks like in Berlin, in the heart of the EU.