The envoy noted even if Russia will abolish the the visa regime unilaterally with EU, the EU will not do it in turn for Russian Federation. Envoy noted that the reason for this is a situation in the Northern Caucasus. The Europe is afraid that the mass of people from the problematic regions of Russian Federation will move to find refuge in EU. The envoy noted that in EU are many pressed problems with illegal migrant. The refugees from Northern Africa in Italy for instance. Envoy said the visa regime lifting may be more in the interests of Russian Federation. The EU can only simplify the visa regime. This simplification means the procedural nature of the visa issue.

Some time ago, Putin Prime Mister noted that the European partners of RF were paying attention to the abolition of visa regime with Russian Federation very often. President Medvediev said that Russia and EU will abolish the visa regime for the year of 2018 when the football championship must be conducted in Russia. At the same time Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Russian Federation hoped that the question of visa regime lifting was to be decided to 2011.