Igor Ivanov called on the EU to start negotiations about the visa -free passage between Russia and Europe

Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov called today the European Union for the speedy negotiations on visa -free trips. "The freedom of movement inside the Schengen territory creates more and more difficulties for ordinary Russian citizens," he said.

The action of the Schengen regime, Igor Ivanov believes, "comes into conflict with freedom of movement, free communication of people on the continent." “And these are already human rights,” the minister emphasized.

“Russia,” he said in an article in the newspaper Izvestia , “expects to sit from his partners from the European Union to sit down at the near future to discuss the proposal nominated by President Vladimir Putin in the future for a visa -free travel regime between the Russian Federation and the EU.”

According to Ivanov, the problem of the Kaliningrad region "has become a serious test for the strength of our relations with the European Union." The expansion of the EU, the minister believes, "turns this Russian region into an exclus in the European Union."

Kaliningrad, he continued, "only part of a large, serious question." “It is clear that both in united Europe and in Russia,” Igor Ivanov remarked, “the problem of illegal migration is increasingly arising. It can only be solved by joint efforts.”