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Salim A. Essaid

Mar 6, 2023

Passengers are seen at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, the day S7 Airlines canceled all its international flights due to sanctions imposed on Russia over the country's invasion of Ukraine, March 5, 2022. — Passengers are seen at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, the day S7 Airlines canceled all its international flights due to sanctions imposed on Russia over the country's invasion of Ukraine, March 5, 2022. — -/AFP via Getty Images

Russia’s Foreign Ministry announced on Monday that it is working to establish visa-free travel agreements with a handful of Gulf countries and Syria this week.

One year since its invasion of Ukraine and in the face of growing international scrutiny, Russia said that it was preparing intergovernmental agreements on visa-free travel with 11 countries on Sunday, which include Gulf states Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Oman, reported state-owned Russian News Agency TASS.

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