Polish newspaper: Hungary is a Schengen visa paradise for the Russians

The Rzeczpospolita Polish newspaper regards Hungary as a loyal state to the Kremlin and ranked Italy and Greece in that category as well. A recently published article says that these are the countries where Russian nationals can acquire a Schengen visa the easiest.

Index.hu summed up the Polish article referring to the consultations of the Association Of Tour Operators In Russia (ATOR) with market players. The Polish language article states that Hungary, Italy and Greece help Russian nationals the most to acquire their needed documents for an EU visa. Furthermore, they added that Hungary is the Russian tourists’ most popular European destination.

Russian tour operators registered at the Russian embassies have no problems with the so-called bots, software applications running automated tasks (scripts) over the Internet when they register in the Hungarian and Greek visa centres. The Polish newspaper highlighted that Hungary follows a loyal visa policy towards Moscow despite the EU sanctions.

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Hungary is a popular destination among Russians because of the easily obtainable EU visa. Furthermore, plane tickets and services are cheap. Moreover, the country is accessible during the whole year and can satisfy almost all needs, the Polish newspaper argues.

According to Russian tour operators, Italy is also among the easy destinations. Russian nationals can claim a visa in person. Market players do not follow the activity of the bots in that respect, index.hu wrote.

Visa centres started to use bots generating registration requests and reserving free slots before the pandemic, said ATOR. But they did not mention whether the use of such software proliferated after Russia invaded Ukraine. Getting into other EU countries without using such programmes for the Russians is difficult or even impossible.

Among the Asian countries, Vietnam and Indonesia are the most popular destinations for Russian tourists.

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Source: index.hu