The State Duma Commission, established to investigate the facts regarding the interference of foreign states in the internal affairs of the Russian Federation, considers calls by NATO countries to refrain from traveling to the Russian Federation as an attempt to interfere with international observation of the upcoming presidential elections. This was stated by the chairman of the commission, chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption, Vasily Piskarev. telegram channel commissions.
According to him, the Russian side expects more than a thousand observers from about 100 countries to come to the presidential elections to be held between March 15-17, 2024.
“We see NATO’s destructive information campaign as another dirty provocation and an attempt to prevent large-scale international observation of the elections in the Russian Federation,” Piskarev said.
7 March German Ministry of Foreign Affairs updated Recommendations for citizens and persons with dual citizenship regarding travel to the Russian Federation. German citizens are strongly discouraged from traveling to the Russian Federation. Diplomats also asked citizens not to travel to cities bordering Ukraine, such as Belgorod, Bryansk, Krasnodar, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don and Kursk.
Also British Embassy in Moscow asked Citizens of the Kingdom have been warned to avoid traveling to Russia after the US diplomatic mission announced the danger of an extremist attack in the Russian capital.
Formerly Ambassador to the Russian Federation taken into account provoking US Russophobic rhetoric on the eve of the election.