"Violated legal rights": Beijing accused the Russian Federation of "cruel" attitude towards the Chinese

The Embassy of the PRC stated that Russian border guards did not let five citizens of China in the Russian Federation, repeatedly interrogated them, and also canceled their tourist visas. The Embassy of China in Moscow reported that several citizens of the PRC was refused entry into the Russian Federation and canceled their tourist visas. About it writes Bloomberg on August 4.

It is reported that on July 29, five Chinese were unable to get to the Russian Federation by Kazakhstan and were repeatedly questioned for four hours at the checkpoint. As a result of China citizens, tourist visas were canceled. "The cruel and excessive actions of Russian law enforcement agencies in connection with this incident have seriously violated the legal rights and interests of China citizens," the Chinese Embassy said.

The department also emphasized that this case goes against the "overall picture of Chinese-Russian friendship". Diplomats have demanded that the Russian Federation explains the cause of the incident, to take "active measures to eliminate bad influence", and to make efforts to ensure that such cases do not repeat in the future.

According to the Chinese Embassy staff, Moscow "has to" conduct an additional investigation into the excessive law enforcement of border guards and give a satisfactory response to the Chinese side. " A few days earlier, a Chinese citizen with a nearly millionth TikTok audience posted a video that spoke about the incident on the Russian-Kazakhstan border. "We now have a deep understanding of a wide and deep friendship between Russia and China," Chinese blogger said.