{"id":20531,"date":"2022-04-20T11:38:47","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=20531"},"modified":"2022-04-20T11:38:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:38:47","slug":"russia-says-its-not-banning-foreign-journalists-but-tightening-visa-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/04\/20\/russia-says-its-not-banning-foreign-journalists-but-tightening-visa-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says it&#8217;s not banning foreign journalists but tightening visa rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">Russia is not planning to stop foreign journalists from entering the country but it is tightening visa rules for those from &#8220;unfriendly countries&#8221;, a deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">Yevgeny Ivanov told parliament this was in response to moves by the European Union and other countries to make it harder for the Russian business community to obtain visas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__large__nEccO body__base__22dCE body__large_body__FV5_X article-body__element__OOj6H\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">&#8220;We have responded by making it harder for journalists from unfriendly countries to obtain visas. They will now get a single-entry visa and pay a higher visa fee,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body__element__OOj6H\"><span class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__default__UPMUu sign-off__text__328ww\">Reuters<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is not planning to stop foreign journalists from entering the country but it is tightening visa rules for those from &#8220;unfriendly countries&#8221;, a deputy foreign minister said on Wednesday. Yevgeny Ivanov told parliament this was in response to moves by the European Union and other countries to make it harder for the Russian business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":20532,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9505,1195,5345,6030,1198,3457,5217,7231,5647,10650,6585,3954,6031],"class_list":["post-20531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-minister","tag-journalist","tag-parliament","tag-russia","tag-russian","tag-union","tag-visa","tag-visa-fee","tag-visas","tag-will","tag-yevgeny-ivanov"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}