Russia dismisses EU criticism of travel blacklist


  • World
  • Tuesday, 02 Jun 2015

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a meeting with United Arab Emirates Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan (not pictured) in Moscow, Russia, May 28, 2015. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia criticised the European Union on Monday for allowing the publication of a list of European officials barred from entering the country in the diplomatic fallout over the Ukraine crisis.

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow, which drew up the list in response to a similar ban on Russian officials by the EU, had handed over the list to the EU "confidentially."

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