Russia has added a number of intrusive new questions to its already lengthy visa application forms, including requiring details of applicants’ Facebook and Twitter accounts, raising concerns that Britons will be deterred from visiting.
As well as any social media accounts, the embassy now asks for information about parents, bank accounts and children, whether they are travelling or not. The questions were introduced this week under a “miscellaneous information” section of the application, which already required details of every country visited in the last 10 years.
