The foreign fans who visited the World Cup matches in 2018 have the right to visit Russia till the end of this year visa-free. The Russian President announced the news after the final match in Moscow Luzhniki Stadium. The head of state had already proposed the idea of ​​facilitating the entrance into the country and now this decision has become more concrete.

"I think we will do this way: we will make a visa-free entrance for foreign fans who have currently issued their Fans ID until the end of this year. Multiple and I repeat visa-free regime, "the head of state said.

Putin expressed the hope that football fans will take advantage of this opportunity and "will come to our Russia more than once with friends and members of their families"