Russia and Belarus are still considering the possibility of signing a bilateral inter-parliamentary agreement on mutual visa recognition, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrei Rudenko told Sputnik

A US pilot program has begun collecting DNA samples from immigrants who enter the United States without a visa, part of a larger effort to begin collecting the genetic fingerprints from all migrants arrested for violating immigration laws, the Department of Justice said in a press release on Monday

Natalya Poklonskaya, a member of the Russian parliament's lower house representing Crimea, told Sputnik on Monday that Japan's Foreign Ministry had denied her a visa without giving the lawmaker an explanation

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva said Monday she hoped more Russian tourists would come to her country in 2020 as it prepared to relax visa rules

The United States hopes Beijing will ease restrictions on meetings between US diplomats and local officials after Washington imposed reciprocal measures against China, the US ambassador said Monday

Russia has submitted a formal proposal to the First Committee of the UN General Assembly to relocate this body from New York to either Vienna or Geneva amid the unfriendly visa policies of the United States, a source within the United Nations told Sputnik on Friday

Russia hopes to sign mutual visa recognition agreement with Belarus by the end of the year, as the document is ready, State Secretary - Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Ivanov said on Thursday

A UAE newspaper has said that the visit of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the UAE, his second since 2007, and the signing of several agreements and memoranda of understanding, has helped bolster the already-strong bilateral relations across multiple sectors