Pursuant to the decision taken in accordance with Section 61, Paragraph two of the Immigration Law, those persons will be prohibited from entry to Latvia for an indefinite period of time, the Ministry said in a release.
"Latvia condemns in the strongest terms the unprovoked and unjustified war unleashed by Russia on Ukraine, which has been going on for more than a year and in which, because of the brutality of the Russian armed forces, Ukrainian civilians and soldiers have been losing their lives every day. Support for atrocities perpetrated by the Kremlin regime means complicity with the crimes committed; therefore, the entry of such persons into Latvia is not permissible," the release said.
The list includes various performers, television presenters and political commentators.
The following persons have been put on the rejection list:
- Yaroslav DRONOV
- Ruslan OSTASHKO
- Yuliya BARANOVSKAYA
- Natalya KACHURA
- Kirill KUZNETSOV
- Akim GASANOV
- Polina AGUREEVA
- Vladimir BARINOV
- Dmitriy DONETSKIY
- Denis BOCHAROV
- Vasiliy SALZHENIKIN
- Alexander NOSKOV
- Alexey IOVCHEV
- Sergey KIFAK
- Valentin LEZOV
- Stanislav STAROVOITOV
- Valeria KUDRJAVCEVA
- Nadezhda BABKINA
- Alexander MARSHAL
- Vyacheslav MANUCHAROV
- Semen BAGDASAROV
- Rostislav ISHCHENKO
- Spiridon KILINKAROV
- Vladimir KORNILOV
- Rodion MIROSHNIK
- Gevorg MIRZAYAN
- Evgeny SATANOVSKY
- Anna SHAFRAN (PALYUKH)
- Mikhail SHAKHNAZAROV
- Andrey SIDORCHIK
- Alexander SOSNOVSKIY
- Sergey STANKEVICH
- Stanislav YAKOVLEV
- Yulia LOZANOVA (VITYAZEVA)
- Dmitriy EVSTAFYEV
As previously reported by LSM, Russia itself recently said it had blacklisted dozens of citizens of the Baltic states, but it didn't go to the trouble of naming them.
