Russian guest reception

Ex-president of the American Commercial Chamber in the Russian Federation Scott Blacklin, friend of Bill Clinton, has been contained along with illegal migrants in a special cost for foreigners in Nizhny Novgorod since May 20. It is reported by Kommersant. According to the head of the regional head of the FMS Vladimir Brickker, it is supposed to deport Blacklin to his homeland only on Friday.

On May 17, the American arrived in Russia by business visa. He spent two days in Moscow, and then went to Nizhny Novgorod to participate in a conference at the University of Nizhny Novgorod named after Lobachevsky. However, on the day of the Blacklin event, Ibis was detained at the Hotel and delivered to the FMS department to verify documents. From there, the American was brought to the Sormovsky district court of the city, which found him guilty under Part 4 of Article 18.8 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violations of the regime of stay in Russia during the year) and sentenced 5 thousand rubles to a fine of 5 thousand rubles and expulsion from the country with a premises until deportation to a special receiver.

The previous violation, imputed by Blackclina, dated the spring of 2014. Then the American, having arrived in Russia on a tourist visa, took part in a round table at the University of Nizhny Novgorod. For this, the Soviet district court of the city on May 30, 2014 fined it by 2 thousand rubles and ordered him to leave Russia on his own.

The press secretary of the US Embassy in Moscow Will Stevens noticed that Blacklin, having learned that he made a mistake a year ago, "reacted with all respect to the Russian legislation regarding the visa regime, and entered the Russian Federation, notifying the Russian authorities and with their complete consent." For a business visa, the diplomat noted, the ex-head of the American Chamber of Commerce "turned" after consultations with the consulate of the Russian Federation in the USA. "

“We categorically object to Blacklin's arrest and his absurdly long detention under arrest,” Stevens concluded. He also stated that American diplomats "several times at a high level expressed concern to the Russian authorities - both in the Russian Federation and in Washington."

In 1979-1986, Blacklin led the Moscow representative office of the WJS Incorporated trading company, and later headed Russian offices Westinghouse Electric and Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Group. In 1997-2000-President of the American Commercial Chamber in the Russian Federation. Then he was the top manager of Cisco Systems. Since 2009, he has been heading its own consulting company Blacklin Associates.

On May 15, the Sormovsky district court decided to expel two volunteers from the Czech Republic and Poland, who arrived at the seminar dedicated to the protection of migrant rights. However, Europeans have achieved the abolition of this decision in the regional court.

Meanwhile, Blacklin was detained simultaneously with employees of the Danish Institute against torture - participants in the seminar organized at the Ibis Hotel Committee against torture. FMS officials tore off the event and detained three foreign participants: citizens of Germany and Latvia and a citizen of Denmark. The next day, the Sormovsky District Court fined all three by 2 thousand rubles and decided to expel from Russia .