Kirkorov was banned from entering Lithuania for five years due to Crimea.

The singer was blacklisted for his visits to occupied Crimea and the justification for the Russian aggression.

Russian artist Philip Kirkorov will not be able to enter the territory of Lithuania for five years, since he was included in the list of undesirable people in the country. In particular, the singer was banned from visiting the country because of his support for the occupation of Crimea, Interfax writes.

“Publicly justifying the occupation of Crimea, performers should not be tolerated in any democratic state. We have an unequivocal position on the issue of such artists, so there was no question that Kirkorov was included in the list of undesirables. in Lithuania, “said Interior Minister Agne Bilotaite.

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielyus Landsbergis ordered Kirkorov to be added to the national list of foreigners who are prohibited from entering the country. He stressed that Kirkorov repeatedly visited the occupied peninsula and “deliberately denied the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Ukraine and thus illegally justified the aggressive actions of the Russian Federation.”

Landsbergis also added that Vilnius will not stop there and provide a proper assessment to all citizens that the Russian Federation “uses to promote its foreign policy and influence the people of Lithuania.”

It was previously reported that the Russian blogger was not allowed to enter Ukraine. Earlier, the girl violated the procedure for entering and leaving the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, border guards said.

Furthermore, the Russian newscaster was not allowed to enter Ukraine. A citizen of Moldova, who worked in Moscow for the RBC television channel, tried to cross the territory of Ukraine in transit. He was unsuccessful due to his visit to Crimea in 2018.

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