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The visa-free regime for the Vladivostok free port area will be rolled out on January 1, 2016, Russian Presidential Envoy to the Far East Yury Trutnev told TASS.
Foreigners will be allowed to enter the free port zone, which also includes 14 municipalities in the Primorye Territory for 8 days, Trutnev said. Visitors who enter Russia from Vladivostok will not be allowed to leave the territorial limits of the zone.
The federal law that granted the Russian Far Eastern city free port status came into effect on October 12.
