“The United States appreciates important bilateral cooperation on the International Space Station.
And despite serious staffing problems, the embassy in Moscow continues to pay attention to issuing visas for astronauts so that they can meet with their colleagues from NASA in a timely manner, ”RIA Novosti quotes him as saying.
At the same time, the embassy noted that, according to the rules, they “cannot comment on individual cases of issuing visas.”
Earlier, RIA Novosti reported that the United States authorities refused to issue a visa to Russian cosmonaut Nikolai Chub without explanation.
Director General of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin expressed the hope that the refusal to issue a US visa for a Russian cosmonaut is a misunderstanding that Washington can still correct.
Rogozin announced his intention to request NASA's position on the incident.