Tens of thousands gathered the day before the leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Russia were meeting to work on a peace agreement that many Armenians oppose.
He had been regularly critical of the government of Nikol Pashinyan. After news broke of his persona non grata status, another Russian critic, Margarita Simonyan, said she also had been banned.
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While the decision isn’t likely to have a practical effect on people’s freedom to travel, it does signal a potential shift in Brussels’s approach to Georgia’s breakaway territories.