Moscow is weighing up its options on how to respond to a failure by the US to issue visas for 10 members of the Russian delegation to a UN summit in New York; one response could be to obstruct the green card lottery for Russians.
Russia believes it is the latest victim of Washington’s dubious practice of abusing its status as the host of the United Nations headquarters by denying entrance to people that the US government doesn’t want to see there. In theory, all members of the UN get equal access to the organization’s events, but in practice nations which find themselves on Washington’s bad side are effectively restricted when the US fails to issue visas to delegates.
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