Changes in the list of foreign citizens who are not subject to restrictions on entry to the Russian Federation 25.02.2021

• accredited or appointed employees of diplomatic missions and consular posts of foreign states in the Russian Federation, international organizations and their representations, other official representations of foreign states located in the Russian Federation;
• officials of the Standing Committee of the Union State, as well as family members of these persons;
• deputies and officials of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union of Belarus and Russia;
• employees of the Intergovernmental Courier Communication;
• members of official delegations;
• persons with diplomatic, business visas issued in connection with the death of a close relative;
• citizens of states with which the Russian Federation has international agreements on visa-free travel for citizens entering the Russian Federation as couriers in diplomatic relations

• family members (spouses, parents, children, adoptive parents, adopted children), guardians and trustees of citizens of the Russian Federation**;
• citizens of states in relations with which the Russian Federation has international agreements on visa-free travel for citizens entering the Russian Federation in connection with the death of a close relative;
• persons with ordinary private visas issued in connection with the death of a close relative;
• persons who enter the Russian Federation once to take care of sick close relatives (spouses, parents, children, adoptive parents, adopted children), guardians and trustees**;
• genetic parents of children born in the Russian Federation from surrogate mothers who enter for the purpose of state registration of birth, when sending lists to the Federal Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs by the Ministry of Health**

• permanently residing in the territory of the Russian Federation (residence permit) (except for "foreign citizens permanently residing in the territory of the Russian Federation and staying in the Russian Federation for a single exit from the Russian Federation to the country of citizenship")**;
• transit passengers following in transit through air checkpoints of the borders of the Russian Federation (without going beyond them);
• foreign citizens from Lugansk People's Republic and Donetsk People's Republic;
• citizens of the CIS countries, the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia (when following to the country of citizenship);
• truck drivers of international automobile traffic**;
• crews of air, sea and river vessels, including those following through the territory of the Russian Federation to change the crews of vessels in the ports of the Russian Federation), train and locomotive crews of international railway traffic, personnel determined by international agreements of the Russian Federation in the field of railway transport**;
• individuals with ordinary private visas issued by decision of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
• persons holding a certificate of a participant in the state program for voluntary resettlement in the Russian Federation and their family members;
• employees entering for maintenance (if the customer is under the jurisdiction of the federal executive body and has sent lists of foreign employees to the Federal Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs or from lists sent by Rosatom);
• highly qualified specialists and their family members (spouses, parents, children, adoptive parents, adopted children) with a single entry into the Russian Federation strictly with a valid contract (if the employer / customer is under the jurisdiction of the federal executive body, which has sent lists of foreign employees to the Federal Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs or from lists sent by Rosatom)**;
• citizens of Belarus (if they are employees of Belarusian companies:

A) and take part in work in the field of nuclear energy, construction, oil / gas production, mineral processing;

B) and are directed to work on a shift at industrial facilities in the Russian Federation;

C) and are included in the lists that are sent to the Federal Security Service and the Ministry of Internal Affairs by the executive authority (in the sphere of which the customer of the above works is responsible) or Rosatom)

• persons participating in quality control of equipment manufactured by Russian legal entities and supplied in accordance with contracts governing the construction of nuclear facilities abroad, and within the framework of the implementation of international treaties of the Russian Federation, according to lists sent by the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom to the Federal Security Service of Russia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia**;
• persons participating in the certification of new aircraft and maintaining the airworthiness of domestically produced aircraft of Russian operators according to the lists sent by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia to the Federal Security Service of Russia and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia**;
• permanently residing in the city of Baikonur, or seconded to Kazakhstan to participate in the implementation of space programs (provided that they are included in the lists that Roskosmos sent to the Federal Security Service);
• citizens of Belarus (with a residence permit or other right to permanently reside in Belarus) when entering from Belarus by air or by railway passenger transport;
• persons who enter the Russian Federation with the purpose of medical care**;
• citizens of foreign countries (defined by the Appendix) entering the Russian Federation from their countries of citizenship through air checkpoints, as well as persons holding a residence permit or other document confirming the right of permanent stay in the following countries**:

1. United Kingdom (entry is temporary restricted until April 16, 2021, more details in the news here)
2. Tanzania
3. Turkey
4. Switzerland
5. Egypt
6. Maldives
7. United Arab Emirates
8. Kazakhstan
9. Kyrgyzstan
10. Korea
11. Serbia
12. Cuba
13. Japan
14. Seychelles
15. Ethiopia
16. Vietnam
17. India
18. Qatar
19. Finland
20. Armenia
21. Azerbaijan
22. Greece
23. Singapore

• citizens of Abkhazia, entering Russian Federation from Abkhazia**;
• citizens of the EAEU (strictly from Feb 01, 2021 to Mar 01, 2021 and under the conditions: entry from Armenia or Belarus only through air checkpoints (Appendix No. 2 to the Order of the Government 635-р), with the test results for COVID-19 in the mobile application named "I travel without COVID-19"));
• persons involved as highly qualified specialists in the field of sports, or participating in sports events on the territory of the Russian Federation (and their family members - spouses, parents, children, adoptive parents, adopted children), included in the list sent by the Ministry of Sports of Russia to the Federal Security Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Air Transport Agency (in the presence of valid passports, ordinary work or humanitarian visas in order to carry out sports contacts, or without a visa, if this is provided for by international agreements of the Russian Federation)**;
• persons traveling to Russian Federation through air checkpoints across the state border of Russian Federation in order to change aircraft crews, which are subject to present valid identity documents, which are recognized by Russian Federation in this capacity, and visas either in a visa-free manner in cases stipulated by international agreements with Russian Federation, and which are subject to present an aircraft crew member's certificate and a flight task or a general aircraft declaration for the planned flight;
• foreign citizens participating in the implementation of national and federal projects, priority programs, large investment projects (details here);
• persons who are migrants from the Republic of Latvia to the Russian Federation in accordance with the Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Latvia on the regulation of the resettlement process and protection of the rights of migrants as of June 2, 1993, as well as minor members traveling with the migrants, indicated in the ID card of a migrant from the Republic of Latvia to the Russian Federation