First in NATO: Lithuania imposed sanctions against Russia

December 8 2018 1

Of all the NATO countries that support Ukraine in its provocative behavior in the Black Sea, only Lithuania has so far decided to introduce anti-Russian sanctions. On December 7, the President of this Baltic Republic, Dalia Grybauskaite, met with her Ukrainian counterpart Petro Poroshenko. During the meeting, she announced the imposition of sanctions.

However, she lamented that this was not an easy mission, since it was not easy to be the first to make such a decision. And Gribauskaite noticed that so far no one has taken anti-Russian measures, but she decided, despite the fact that the ministers of her government, according to her, receive threats from Moscow.

We know that international organizations did not accept any sanctions against Russian actions, however we introduced our national sanctions in protest

- said the Lithuanian president, adding that now people who are involved in the detention of Ukrainian sailors will not be able to conduct any economic activity in her state. To everything else, she promised Poroshenko to support Ukraine in the military sphere.

According to the head of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs, Andrei Klimov, the Lithuanian leadership should not have proved its Russophobia, but paid attention to the problems of its own country: since Lithuania was in NATO and the EU, its population has decreased by a third. He added that this decision was caused by a desire to please Washington.

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8 December 2018 11: 06

And what are the sanctions? These ones:

Sanctions prohibit the Russians involved in the detention of Ukrainian sailors from engaging in economic and other activities in Lithuania.

This means, in fact, that these persons now cannot see Schengen visas. The fact is that when applying for a Schengen visa to any country of the Schengen Union, this country (where they applied for a visa) is obliged to check whether the requested person has any obligations in other member states of the Union, or is it included in the sanctions lists of any country of the Schengen Union. If all this is there, then it is already requested, permission from such a country, that is, the one that wants to have a visa has an obligation or is included in its sanction lists. So, that all-Schengen, they, and possibly their family members, can no longer be seen. In addition, for the observance of the "sanction", recently they connected "Interpol" - which can lead to undesirable consequences when the sanctioned persons travel to other countries, not even the Schengen Union. So, not everything is so simple with the allegedly "empty" "threats" of these, as they are called, "unfinished".