The expulsion of the Varangians

In St. Petersburg, FMS employees came to the Norwegian University Center and told students that they had violated the rules of visa, reports The Independent Barents Observer. For three days, nine Norwegian and eight Swedish students should leave the country.

Norwegian University Center in St. Petersburg is a joint project of the four largest universities in the country, in Tromso, Bergen, Tronheim and Oslo. Since the late 1990s, the Center has been engaged in student exchange programs between the countries of Scandinavia and Russia. In addition, lectures of Norwegian scientists are held in the center.

This week, the Russian authorities conducted a thorough check in the center, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry said. However, the Consul General of Norway in St. Petersburg Dag Halvorsen emphasized that checking and problems with students visas are two separate affairs. According to the diplomat, the Consulate General "Beginning of the Legal Process", trying to resolve the situation.

In May 2016, US citizen Jan Bonner, a student of Kazan University, who wrote a diploma of the Chechen war, was deported from Russia on charges of violating migration legislation. The American was accused of working as a tutor in English, not having permission to work in Russia.

Bonner arrived in Kazan in 2012 on a training visa. He perfectly mastered the Russian language and married a resident of Kazan. The American also learned the Chechen language.

On May 13, 2016, the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan fined it by 2 thousand rubles and decided to expel it outside the country. The American appealed this decision, but lost the trial. For the next five years, he is forbidden to enter Russia.

After the first trial before sending from Russia, the American was in a special -reception for foreigners to be deported. There he was visited by the Vice-Consul of the US Embassy, ​​Emmy Tuksbury, who arrived from Moscow. On May 18, Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia, Victoria Nuland, sent a note to the Russian Foreign Ministry, which stated that the situation with Bonner is “a vivid example of the inability of the Russian authorities to provide US citizens with elementary measures to protect Russian law”.