Even the proposal of EU banning tourist visas for Russian passport holders infuriates the Kremlin. This is not because the Kremlin cares of "ordinary Russians." Ordinary Russians don't travel to Europe. 70% of them dont even have travel passports.
Travelling to Europe is popular among the Russian elites and Moscow & St Peresburg middle class. These are the people Putin
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tries to convince he has everyting under control.
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And some of them Russia uses for corrupting the Westerners, projecting Russian "soft power"
Many of them don't support the war but most of them think they ave nothing to do with it. This is why they need to feel at least some discomfort. We all have something to do with it and we all have a responsibility.