France granted Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev an entry visa, the ministry said on May 23 May, even though he is on a European Union list of Russians banned from entering the bloc after Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.
France granted Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev an entry visa, the ministry said on May 23 May, even though he is on a European Union list of Russians banned from entering the bloc after Moscow annexed Ukraine's Crimea peninsula.