According to her, the ban on entry to Lithuania for the artist comes into force on January 19.

“The perpetrators who publicly justify the occupation of Crimea cannot be tolerated in any democratic state,” the Interior Minister wrote on Facebook.

Earlier, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry reported that at a joint meeting of the National Security and Defense Committee of the Seim and the Council for Culture, the possibility of including Kirkorov on the "black list" was studied.

Later, the Foreign Ministry made a request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called Vilnius's plans absurd and stupid.