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Russian migration service prepared to issue visas to Greenpeace activists

Federal law states that the exit from the country by foreign nationals detained on the suspicion of committing an offence may be restricted

ST.PETERSBURG, December 5. /ITAR-TASS/ - Russian migration authorities are ready to issue transit visas to foreign activists from the ecological movement Greenpeace, who participated in the recent campaign at the Prirazlomnaya oil platform in the Arctic, in the event the Investigative Committee gives its permission, the head of the Federal Migration Service of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Elena Dunayeva, said on Thursday.

“Being an authorized body for granting transit visas, we are ready to do it in the event the Investigative Committee provides us with documents stating there are no obstacles for foreign citizens to leave the country,” she said.