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In 2025, the Italian Embassy in Minsk issued 50,709 uniform Schengen visas out of 50,912 applications: just 203 denials. 50,176 documents allowed multiple entries. In the same year, all Schengen representations in Belarus issued 152,571: one visa out of three bore the Italian stamp. Even more consistent the flow from the Russian Federation: 161,121 uniform visas issued by the Italian consulates of Moscow and St Petersburg, out of a total Schenge…
Only France grants more: they are a support to tourism, but the risk is that agents will arrive.
For the historian, Professor of Johns Hopkins: "What happened in Leipzig shows that the safety issue must be taken much more seriously"
Italy continues to be one of the European countries that issues the most visas to Russian citizens, raising concerns about the possibility of infiltration of Russian intelligence agents into the Schengen area. According to European Commission data, in 2025 Italy approved around 164 thousand visas to Russian applicants at the consulates in Moscow and St. […]
The suspect in the attempted drone attack in Leipzig also received a tourist visa from the Italian state as a Russian-Belarusian citizen. La Stampa found out that 160,000 Russians were able to enter the European Union this way every year.
Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Italy has issued visas to 160,000 Russian citizens annually, allowing them to enter the European Union, the Italian daily La Stampa reported on Friday.
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