Who will hear the Call from the East

President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to consider the abolition of entry visas for citizens of China, India, Brazil and South Africa included in the BRICS. The document is published on the Kremlin website.

"To submit proposals providing for the possibility of visa -free entry and short -term stay in the Russian Federation of foreign citizens arriving at the Russian Federation for tourism purposes (including transit) from the BRICS countries, as well as from other countries, the list of which is approved by the government," the instruction said. Its term is determined on October 30.

In addition, the government is instructed to develop a number of measures to develop the tourist complex. Among them are the introduction of a single federal register of travel agents, as well as certification of guides, guides-translators and guide instructors. Under the government, a coordination council for the development of domestic and entrance tourism will be created. It will be led by one of their deputy prime ministers.

Since 2000, an agreement on visa -free group tourist trips has been in force between Russia and China. Members of tourist groups organized by accredited travel agencies can be in another state for up to 30 days. Since 2010, a visa -free regime has been operating between Russia and Brazil for the period of stay up to 90 days.

In June, the Vice -Speaker of the State Duma from the LDPR Igor Lebedev said that the party’s faction intends to initiate the appeal of the lower house to the government with a request to revise the decision of the administration of the Trans -Baikal Territory on the transfer of 115 thousand hectares of agricultural lands - the Huae Xingbang, the private Chinese company.

The Governor of the Territory Konstantin Ilkovsky, Governor of the Territory, stated the signing with the Huae Xingbang of the Protocol of intent during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. According to him, we are talking about the "implementation of a joint project for the development of agricultural land." Then the acting The heads of the Jewish Autonomous Region, Alexander Levintal, stated that in its region 80 percent of the land are somehow controlled by the Chinese - "in different ways, legal and illegal." “At the same time, 80 percent of the earth is worn by soy, which kills the earth,” he noted.

Meanwhile, the head of the FMS Konstantin Romodanovsky claims that there is no Chinese expansion in Russia. Migrants from China in the country are only 10-20 thousand more than the Germans, the official says.