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Foreigners need visas to travel to Crimea

Published April 1, 2014 at 8:02 am

Russian national flag flutter in the wind near a city clock tower at a railway station during celebrations to mark the transition to Moscow time in Simferopol on March 30, 2014. As the rest of Europe was set to move their clocks one hour forward for summer on Sunday, in Crimea, residents braced for a two-hour jump into the timezone of their new masters in Moscow. AFP PHOTO / DMITRY SEREBRYAKOV

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Moscow, March 31 (Interfax) - Foreigners now need a Russian visa to visit Crimea "due to the reunification of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol with the Russian Federation," Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Monday.

Formalities for the departure from Crimea of foreigners who arrived as visa-exempt nationals before the region’s incorporation into Russia are to be dealt with by a Russian Foreign Ministry mission in Simferopol, Crimea’s administrative center, the ministry said in a statement.