'The U.S. wouldn't want to close off pathways to refuge and safety for Russia's dissidents or others who are vulnerable,' said a State Department spokesperson.
foreign ministers' meeting in Prague this week, the question of whether ordinary Russians should pay the price for Putin's war hangs in the air. As some countries, mainly the Baltic nations, push for a wider ban on visas, others have shut down the idea entirely.
Michael Kimmage, a former member of the U.S. secretary of state's policy-planning staff in charge of the Russia/Ukraine portfolio, toldthat implementing an EU-wide ban would feed into the message the West is hostile and Russophobic, a constant narrative the Russian government has pushed since the start of the war.
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