“On Monday, the court issued a sanction for his arrest ... The detention was made on July 30,” the report says.
It is noted that Pankratov was detained on suspicion of public support for a special operation in Ukraine and violation of international sanctions.
Earlier, Latvian Foreign Minister Edgar Rinkevich in his social networks called on the EU to ban the issuance of tourist visas to Russian citizens.
On July 26, the director of the consular department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Ivan Volynkin, did not rule out that Europe would stop issuing Schengen visas to Russians.