For most of 14 hours that Latvian MEP Sandra Kalniete spent in the transit zone of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, it was unclear whether Russian authorities would allow her to leave.
Kalniete, a former Latvian foreign minister and briefly the country’s European commissioner in 2004, had caught an evening flight to Moscow on Sunday in order to attend the funeral of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. But once she arrived at border control her diplomatic passport was seized and she was held without food or water for two hours.
“After 30 minutes, I felt that there apparently was a problem, and I proposed …read more
Source: European Voice
