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Wait, why are any tourist visas being granted to citizens of a country waging war on them?
If we're looking beyond the scope of potential spies and saboteurs, there are plenty of families, friends, and even just normal people who travel abroad. Being abroad opens them up to seeing things from a perspective outside the one that is controlled and even enforced within Russia.
Furthermore, ordinary people's view of EU (and other countries outside Russia) is part of many pieces of this conflict's puzzle: Money leaving Russia, people seeing good things in EU in contrast to their own country, and Kremlin being less able to make statements like "this country is showing hostility" or "See? EU only cares about itself".
And ultimately, we do not want to unnecessarily sour the international relations more than necessary, as it's required in a lot of ways for talks about resolutions both during and after the war. Kremlin might not care about this, given the things they do, but they're not looking very far ahead. If they did, they wouldn't wage war in the first place.
Germany has actually been on board with this for quite some time. The reason is simple: It's an easy way in and out of Russia with all pros and cons it has.
It allows people to move out of Russia, but it also allows Russian spies to enter (more easily). It causes Russia to (hopefully) be similarly permissive with visas, allowing journalists and also western spies to enter their country.
The problem only starts where Russia is much more aggressive in their actions than Europe, in other words actively exploiting the 'deal'.
Because some countries in the EU rely on tourism for their finances and do not want to risk reducing that income, even if it concerns only a small number or Russians. Those countries have so far blocked proposals to stop granting visas.
Yep, just EU being EU. Everyone is looking at their own business. It's incredible they manage to do anything done.
Some Russian nationals are already residents of other countries
Because granting tourism visas is the default. What advantage would be gained by not giving them tourism visas?
Having fewer Russians traveling to your country. It's not like Putin makes them get work visas when they're trying to sabotage shit.
And?
Maybe he does, but in any case that's not what I'm asking the parent commenter. My question is: Why would denying tourism visas to enemy civilians be, by default, a bad idea? Because that's what they're implying.
Who says they're all civilians? It's much easier for FSB or whomever to recruit Russians living in Russia as assets than foreigners, or Russians living abroad. Many of the Russians living abroad may support him but enjoy their lives too much to agree to endanger their comfy lives.
Innocent until proven guilty, you tell me how many are FSB agents and the evidence that makes you think so.
It's wartime and they're people who aren't EU citizens, so they're not entitled to passage. Why should they be admitted?
Many stories you can read here and there's likely more that we don't even know about. Yes, there are already people in Europe who are likely to be sympathetic to Russia and there's not much to do about those people since forcibly deporting them to Russia without just cause would be inhumane, but why should we allow in more people that quite likely support Putin? He has pretty high approval rates after all.
You haven't answered my question. Quite literally no part of what you said affects the overall argument* (sabotage operations are almost all done by locals and so are irrelevant unless you can prove Russian tourist involvement).
*Just as a reminder, the original question was "what advantage would be gained by not giving them tourism visas?"
Ah, yea never mind, I checked your history, you're a Putin and genocide sympathizer. I thought you just have no common sense, but you're obviously not asking these questions in good faith. Good bye.
Meloni is on Putin's payroll.
I don’t like her either but there is no evidence of that
She slap him in the stomach as she did with trump