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Russian influencer Xenia Sobchak is a frequent tourist in French and Italian ski resorts, according to her Instagram feed (Photo: www.instagram.com/xenia_sobchak/)

No new hurdles planned for Russian tourists to EU

Russian tourists can keep coming to the EU despite a new sanctions crackdown on the sector, diplomats have said.

Some 541,000 Russians visited the EU last year, compared to 517,000 in 2023, and over four million a year before Russia's full invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

The Nordic states, ...

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Russian influencer Xenia Sobchak is a frequent tourist in French and Italian ski resorts, according to her Instagram feed (Photo: www.instagram.com/xenia_sobchak/)

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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.

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