On Monday, June 18, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted to the Latvian Embassy in Moscow a list of Latvian citizens for whom entry bans to the Russian Federation have been confirmed, the Latvian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said June 19.
“Persons included in the list will be personally informed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the entry ban,” the ministry said, adding that it would not itself publish the names on the list.
The submission of such a list is a response by the Russian Foreign Ministry to the decision of the Saeima of 8 February this year to introduce a “Magnitsky Law” in Latvia which imposes sanctions on persons suspected of involvement in the death in custody of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who was attempting to expose a huge fraud.