MOSCOW, July 17 (RAPSI) – A bill on visa-free entrance to Russia and departure for foreign Fan ID holders until December 31, 2018, has been submitted to the State Duma, according to the database of the parliament’s lower house.

The bill’s authors are the State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin and leaders of all four parliamentary parties. Earlier, President Vladimir Putin said about the necessity to draft such a bill. 

According to an explanatory not to the initiative, the document has been prepared based on the success of FIFA 2018 World Cup held in Russia and is aimed to extend the term of visa-free regime’s validity until the end of the year for foreigners attended sporting events in the country using Fan ID.