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Russia denies additional screening for Indians

Moscow April 17. Russia has denied it has identified India among 21 nations as a country whose citizens would be additionally screened for issuing visas and blamed the existing delay in providing travel documents on the transition phase in switching over to a streamlined visa policy.

A senior official of the Russian Foreign Ministry's visa and consular wing categorically denied the existence of any blacklist of nations in the foreign office.

PTI

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