Due to the fact that Vienna refused to issue visas to Crimean journalists planning to attend the meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Charge d'Affaires of Austrian Affairs in Russia Stefan Weidinger was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry. "The Austrian side. journalists refused to issue visas to journalists of the Crimean media:
the general director of the television and radio company Kryminform, the general director of the Kryminform news agency and the chairman of the Journalists' Union of Sevastopol, Tass reports from the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking after talks with OSCE Secretary General Thomas Greminger. The Minister recalled that this year Austria presided over the OSCE and expressed disappointment with its position. Crimean journalists were going to participate in the OSCE meeting on freedom of the media.