Russia OKs visa regime for 19 countries, including Türkiye

Russia OKs visa regime for 19 countries, including Türkiye

Russia’s Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin permitted a decree enabling a facilitated visa regime for residents of 19 nations, together with Türkiye.

Citizens of the desired nations might get a vacationer visa for as much as six months if they’ve a lodge reservation, the decree, revealed on the federal government portal on Tuesday, learn.

The facilitated nations are Bahrain, Brunei, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Laos, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Thailand, Türkiye and the Philippines.

Speaking at Russia’s decrease chamber of parliament on Feb.15, State Duma, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov introduced that Russia plans to introduce a visa-free regime with 11 nations within the close to future, in addition to a visa-easing regime with six nations.

The Foreign Ministry will publish a report by June 1 on the potential for introducing digital visas for residents of 70 extra nations, he stated, pledging that “there will be no problems for friendly countries.”

Russia launched visa necessities for normal Turkish passport homeowners as of April 1, 2016, and expanded the necessities for Turkish residents with service and particular passports as nicely. The restriction was imposed after Türkiye’s downing of a Russian Su-24 fighter jet for violating the nation’s airspace in 2015.

In July 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the Foreign Ministry to ship a notification to Turkish officers about this partial restoration of visa-free journey for official and repair passport holders in addition to for worldwide transport drivers.

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