OREANDA-NEWS  The number of visas issued by Russia to Americans increased by more than 30 percent in 2024. This was announced by the director of the consular department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexei Klimov, as quoted by RIA Novosti.

The agency's interlocutor clarified that in the first 11 months of 2024, US citizens received 7.7 thousand visas (165 of them business), while for the whole of 2023 they were issued 5.6 thousand travel documents (136 of them business).

Earlier, Klimov said that Russia had not imposed restrictions on the issuance of visas to those US citizens who are not included in the sanctions lists of the Russian Federation. According to him, the processing of Russian visas, including business visas, for Americans is proceeding in the same order.