INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian President Vladimir Putin hasordered to allow visa-free travel from countries regardless of their visa policies toward Russian
citizens.A Kremlin decree dated Oct
require visas for Russians to visit.Ukraine, for example, introducedvisa requirements for Russian nationals as Kyiv cut diplomatic ties with
24 invasion.Putin set a June 2023 deadline for his prime minister, foreign and interior ministers, as well as the head of the Federal
Security Service (FSB), to report on his proposals.Additionally, the president ordered the officials to increase flights, extend tourist
isolation over its widely condemned invasion of Ukraine.Reciprocal airspace bans between Russia and the EU imposed over the invasion have
severely limited travel, while Russia's EU neighbors Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have banned most Russians from crossing
Kingdom, EU members and their Western allies, in response to economic sanctions.The clause on visa-free travel in the Kremlin's decree does
proposals on e-visas by the end of 2022.
