MOSCOW, Sept. 30. Delegates of the Russian Space Agency have not been put at the 65th International Astronautical Congress in Toronto due to the fact that many of them have not given Canadian visas, reports “Interfax”.
“Out of about ten people who planned the trip as a part of delegation of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), visa have received only two out of the number of technical workers “, – the report says.
Among the” banned “were cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev, who served as the first deputy director of manned space programs of the Central Research Institute of Mechanical Engineering, as well as CEO of the Institute Alexander Milkovsky.
According to the source agency, the Russian Foreign Ministry informed about the incident and “unlikely to leave it unanswered”.
add astronaut Krikalev believes that what happened there is no “policy”. “I do not have time to get a visa. I do not think this is some kind of malicious act. Later served sometimes manage to accelerate the (visa), this time not in time. Nothing wrong with that no. This is some discrepancy,” – he said in an PCH comments.
Krikalev said he did not know why the visas are not given to the representatives of Roscosmos delegation.
Canada – one of the Western countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia because of Moscow’s position Ukraine and the annexation of Crimea.
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