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    MOSCOW SAYS GEORGIANS MAY FIND IT HARD TO GET RUSSIAN VISAS

    Ekho Moskvy radio
    Sept 1 2008
    Moscow

    Georgian citizens may face serious difficulties with entry visas into
    Russia. This possibility was not ruled out by the official [Russian]
    Foreign Ministry spokesman, Andrey Nesterenko. He explained that
    consular institutions in Georgia can only concentrate now on the
    problems of Russians in Georgia. Everything to do with issuing visas
    remains very much in question.

    It turns out that difficulties can now occur in Moscow as well. An
    ethnic Georgian listener told our "Daily U-Turn" programme today that
    on the Day of Knowledge [1 September, the start of the Russian school
    year], a schoolteacher decided to tell children about the conflict in
    South Ossetia and described the Georgian side as fascists. [Passage
    omitted: listener tells her story]

    According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, about 15,000 Russian
    citizens who live in Georgia intend to return to Russia. According to
    the same Andrey Nesterenko, they are looking for ways of returning
    via Armenia, Azerbaijan or even Turkey. The Foreign Ministry has
    demanded that the Georgian authorities should not put up any obstacles.
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