Brussels, 03/03/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 3 March, European Parliament President Martin Schulz and the European External Action Service (EEAS) announced that Russia had refused entry to Sandra Kalniete MEP (EPP, Latvia) the previous day. Kalniete was wanting to attend the funeral of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was shot dead on 27 February (see EUROPE 11265). She is now banned from entering Russian territory until November 2019.
Maja Kocijancic, the spokesperson for...