Czech European Commissioner Vera Jourova, Deputy Chairperson of the European Commission for Values \u200b\u200band Transparency. Information about this is posted on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, which calls the imposed ban a response to sanctions from the European Union, Radio Prague reports..

In early March of this year, the names of four representatives of the Russian Federation appeared on the EU sanctions list, including Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov and Head of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin. EU sanctions against these Russians were imposed in connection with the continued imprisonment of Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny and the suppression of peaceful protest demonstrations in the Russian Federation.. Ten days later, the EU countries, including the Czech Republic, supported the extension of the anti-Russian sanctions imposed earlier in connection with Russia's violation of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity..

The list of representatives of the European Union, who are prohibited from entering the Russian Federation, besides Vera Jourova, includes 7 more people: Ivars Abolins, Chairman of the National Council of the Republic of Latvia for Electronic Media; Maris Baltins, Director of the State Language Center of the Republic of Latvia;

Jacques Maire, Member of the French Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe; Joerg Raupach, Head of the Prosecutor's Office of Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany; David Maria Sassoli, President of the European Parliament; Osa Scott, Head of the Laboratory of Chemical, Biological, Radiation and Nuclear Safety, Total Defense Research Institute of the Kingdom of Sweden; Ilmar Tomusk, Head of the Language Department of the Republic of Estonia.