Youth "Yabloko" was not given a visa to Slovakia

On February 22, 2005, 20 youth Yabloko activists who planned to hold a rally in Bratislava against the war in Chechnya, demanding the resumption of gubernatorial elections and the abolition of censorship in the media, did not receive visas before the summit. The travel agency Flex Travel, which handled the visas, offered the activists a trip to Bratislava on February 25, 2005, the day after the end of the Bush-Putin meeting.

According to Ilya Yashin, the leader of the Moscow organization of the youth Yabloko, Ilya Yashin, the agency referred to the impossibility of issuing tickets and visas before the deadline, but in a confidential conversation, travel agency employees said that the lists of those leaving during the summit in Bratislava were checked by the FSB.

Sources

• Kanygin P. Activists of the youth "Yabloko" were not allowed out of the country // New Newspaper. 2005. February 24.