ST. PETERSBURG. May 11 (Interfax) - Almost 800,000 foreign nationals are currently banned from entering Russia, the Interior Ministry's chief migration officer Valentina Kazakova said.
"Constraint measures: 797,800 people are currently restricted from entering Russia," say the ministry's materials presented by Kazakova at the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum on Thursday.
She noted the ministry's leading role in making decisions on the issue. "We have shut out nearly 70%, or 548,000 foreign citizens [from entering Russia]."
The rest of these decisions were made by the Justice Ministry and Federal Penitentiary Service (for 97,800 people), the Federal Security Service (88,800), the consumer rights watchdog Rospotrebnadzor, the Federal Biomedical Agency (34,900), and by the Federal Customs Service and the financial monitoring agency Rosfinmonitoring (11,700), the materials said.