{"id":29714,"date":"2025-12-01T18:04:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29714"},"modified":"2025-12-01T18:04:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T18:04:17","slug":"russia-introduces-30-day-visa-free-access-for-select-chinese-travellers-under-new-decree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29714","title":{"rendered":"Russia introduces 30-day visa-free access for select Chinese travellers under\u00a0new\u00a0decree"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed off on a decree introducing visa-free entry into Russia for some categories of Chinese citizens for a period of up to 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>The decree, published on the government portal, provides visa-free entry into Russia for Chinese citizens arriving for business, tourism, or participation in scientific, cultural, and sports events.<\/p>\n<p>The measure will stay in effect until Sept. 14, 2026, the decree said, adding that it does not apply to some categories, including those coming for work or education.<\/p>\n<p>In September, China announced a visa-free regime for Russian citizens starting from Sept. 15, 2025 to Sept. 14, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Global North and South \u2014 and China&#8217;s inevitability<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Putin said at a meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Moscow that bolstering bilateral contacts between their peoples will be facilitated by Beijing\u2019s decision to introduce a visa-free regime for Russian citizens, and that mirror decisions will come into effect in Russia &#8220;very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am confident that this will have very significant consequences in both the economic and humanitarian spheres. In my view, this will be a positive boost to the development of our relations,&#8221; the Russian president added.<\/p>\n<p>Also Read: Ukraine hits two Russian &#8216;shadow fleet&#8217; tankers with drones in Black Sea<\/p>\n<p>Following the development, air-ticket searches to Russia on Chinese travel platform Fliggy jumped more than eightfold from the previous day, the company told the Global Times on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>According to platform, Russian cities of Moscow, Murmansk, Saint Petersburg, Vladivostok, and Irkutsk are locations that Chinese travelers are most interested in.<\/p>\n<p>Another Chinese platform, Tongcheng Travel, told the Global Times that searches related to Russia had more than doubled shortly after the reporting of the visa-free announcement.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed off on a decree introducing visa-free entry into Russia for some categories of Chinese citizens for a period of up to 30 days. The decree, published on the government portal, provides visa-free entry into Russia for Chinese citizens arriving for business, tourism, or participation in scientific, cultural, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}