"Latvia continues to ban persons supporting the Kremlin regime from entry into Latvia, and will consistently do that in future," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in announcing the travel bans.
People on the list will be prohibited from entering Latvia for an indefinite period. The said persons, mainly Russian cultural figures, have expressed their active support for the decision of the President of Russia to carry out the invasion of Ukraine.
"Latvia condemns in the strongest terms the unprovoked and unjustified war unleashed by Russia on Ukraine, where, as the result of brutal actions by Russia’s armed forces, Ukrainian civilians and soldiers are 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 Ministry explained.
The following persons have been included in the persona non grata list. So if you're a Russian entertainer, please check if you are on it:
- Nikolai BURLYAEV
- Nikolay LEBEDEV
- Alexander SHILOV
- Viktor ZAKHARCHENKO
- Anatoly POLETAYEV
- Elena SHCHERBAKOVA
- Magomed SULEYMANOV
- Leonid REDKY
- Vasily LIVANOV
- Vladimir GOSTYUKHIN
- Alexander MIKHAILOV
- Pavel POZHIGAYLO
- Vasily BOCHKAREV
- Oleg IVANOV
- Aristarkh LIVANOV
- Alexander PANKRATOV-CHERNIY
- Nikolay LAZAREV
- Olga ZINOVIEVA
- Boris SHCHERBAKOV
- Viktor RAKOV
- Alexander PASHUTIN
- Andrey BATURIN
- Vladimir KRUPIN
- Boris GALKIN
- Igor PETRENKO
- Tatiana PETROVA
- Anna TIKHONOVA
- Nikolay VORONOVSKY
- Yuri KOCHETKOV
- Dmitry BELYUKIN
- Mikhail POLETAYEV
- Oleg URYUMTSEV
- Vladislav MALENKO
- Anatoly STEPANOV
- Vladimir VASILIK
- Vladimir KONTAREV
- Valery SDOBNYAKOV
- Yuriy KARA
- Vitaly MAKSIMOV
- Faina ZIMENKOVA
- Alexander KAZIN
- Nikita ASTAKHOV
- Tatyana BELEVICH
- Sergey SYUKHIN
- Mikhail KORNEV
- Indira CHERDZHIEVA
- Valentin SEMENOV
- Boris KAINOV
- Tamara BASNINA
- Anna NEROVNAYA
- Mikhail SHCHEPENKO
- Elena CHAVCHAVADZE
- Arkadiy AVERIN
- Valeria OLEFIR (POLYAKOVA)
- Yulia SHCHEPENKO
- Dmitry POLYAKOV
- Nina ZHUKOVA
- Anton ZHUKOV
- Elina SUNI (ARSENOVA)
- Anatoly PSHENICHNY
- Andrey SOSHENKO
- Stanislav KUNYAEV
- Vladimir MALYAGIN
- Viktor NIKOLAEV
- Alexey KRYUKOV
- Vasily DVORTSOV
- Tatiana PETRAKOVA
- Vasily BOYKO-VELIK
- Boris ORLOV
- Alexander ORLOV
- Sergey LEBEDEV
- Sergei ROZHENTSEV
- Lyudmila LIS
- Georgiy SAFONOV
- Mikhail SHCHEGLOV
- Leonid BOLOTIN
- Andrey REBROV
- Valentina EFIMOVSKAYA
- Igor TER-KARAPETOV
- Denis KIRIS
- Alexander KAZAKOV
- Vladimir PUCHKOV
- Valery KHAIRYUZOV
- Yuri SHCHERBAKOV
- Boris SVERDLOV
- Konstantin MARKELOV
- Tatiana BESPALOVA
- Alexey PUZAKOV
- Igor SELEZNEV
- Sergey VARCHUK
- Viktor TARTANOV
- Aleksandr ANTIPOV
- Sergey ZAYTSEV
- Lydia PUTILOVA
- Elena TIMOSHKINA
- Mikhail KHOKHLOV
- Dmitry CHERNETSOV
- Alexander SHAGANOV
- Konstantin BUBNOV
- Tamerlan DZEITOV
- Alexey MOROZOV
- Georgiy SHENGELIA