20 Apr 2015 11:49

It's no use crying over spilled milk - Rogozin says after visit to Spitsbergen

MOSCOW. April 20 (Interfax) - Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has commented on the Norwegian Foreign Ministry's request to the Russian authorities to explain his visit to Spitsbergen.

"It's no use crying over spilled milk," he tweeted on Sunday.

The Barents Observer edition wrote earlier that the Norwegian authorities had asked Russia to explain the vice-premier's visit to Spitsbergen. The edition said that Rogozin was blacklisted by the European Union and Norway over Ukraine.

The visits of blacklisted people to Svalbard are undesirable, Norwegian Foreign Ministry representative Frode Andersen told the edition.