- Russia will launch visa-free travel for Indian tourists in 2025.
- In June 2024, Russia and India agreed on a bilateral agreement to ease visa rules.
- Its main aim is to introduce visa-free group tourist exchanges.
- After spring 2025, Indian tourists may be able to visit Russia without a visa.
- Indian travellers became eligible for e-visas to Russia in August 2023. It is processed within four days.
- Most Indian visitors to Russia travel for business or work. More than 60,000 Indians visited Moscow in 2023.
- At present, Russia allows citizens from China and Iran to enter without a visa as part of a visa-free tourist exchange program
Indian passport holders currently have visa-free access to 62 countries