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إعتباراً من يونيو 2012، يحق لحاملي جوازات السفر الروسية من المواطنين للسفر إلى الخارج كسياح في 118 بلداً على الأقل بدون تأشيرة أو بتأشيرة عند الوصول.
بعض البلدان والأقاليم تسمح للمواطنين من الاتحاد الروسي للسفر بجواز سفر داخلي:An agreement between the European Community and Russia on the facilitation of the issuance of visas has been in force since June 1, 2007. It has unified the cost of visas, and made it easier to obtain visas for close relatives, journalists, official delegations, transport crew members and some other groups of visitors.
Similar agreements have been signed and ratified between Russia and الدنمارك on 1 October 2009 as well as Russia and Norway on 19 October 2011. سيلفيو برلسكوني, the former Prime Minister of Italy, and later ألكسندر ستوب, the Foreign Minister of Finland have started public discussions on the future possibility for visa-free travel between the EU countries and Russia.
On May 4, 2010, the EU and Russian Federation raised the prospect of beginning negotiations on a visa-free regime between their territories. However it was announced by the Council of Ministers of the EU that the EU is not completely ready to open up the borders due to high risk of increase in human trafficking and drug imports into Europe and because of the loose borders of Russia with Kazakhstan. They will instead work towards providing Russia with a "roadmap for visa-free travel." While this does not legally bind the EU to providing visa-free access to the Schengen zone for Russian citizens at any specific date in the future, it does greatly improve the chances of a new regime being established and obliges the EU to actively consider the notion, should the terms of the roadmap be met. Russia on the other hand has agreed that should the roadmap be established, it will ease access for EU citizens for whom access is not visa-free at this point, largely as a result of Russian foreign policy which states that "visa free travel must be reciprocal between states." Both the EU and Russia acknowledge, however, that there are many problems to be solved before visa-free travel is introduced.
Visa facilitation talks with the United Kingdom, an EU member state that does not belong to the Schengen zone and thus determines its visa policy independently, were suspended by the British government in 2007 following the poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko.
In March 2009, U.S Consul General Kurt Amend stated that the US and Russia were having talks on abolishing the visa regime between the two countries.
During a meeting in Moscow on March 10, 2011, Russian Prime Minister فلاديمير بوتين proposed the introduction of reciprocal visa-free travel to US Vice President جو بايدن, saying, "it would be a historical step in the development of Russian-U.S. relations" and would create "an absolutely new atmosphere between our countries." The Vice President's immediate reaction was cordial, but non-committal. According to Biden's national security advisor Anthony Blinken, visa liberalization had been discussed prior to the meeting, but he added, "The Russians know full well, as do the Americans, that there are legal requirements set by Congress to be met for visa liberalization that the Russians have not yet achieved." Among the requirements was that the refusal rate for Russians seeking visas to the الولايات المتحدة fall below 3 percent. Blinken said visa free travel could happen "...next year, [or] it could be in 10 years." However Dimitri V. Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, considered Putin's proposal to be merely a political tactic in his public exchange with Biden, calling it, "...a way to attract attention...as a way to knock someone off course, maybe it also worked."
Russia is currently negotiating reciprocal visa free travel with the بنما.