Russian MFA Issued Over 1K ‘Traditional Values’ Visas in 2025
The fast-track scheme gives recipients work rights, social benefits and a path to residency or citizenship, officials said.
- The Russian Foreign Ministry issued 1,112 visas last year to foreign nationals who declared a commitment to "traditional values," marking the first full year of a program designed to attract conservative Westerners.
- President Vladimir Putin approved this "humanitarian support" initiative in August 2024, targeting citizens from countries that Moscow claims impose a "destructive neoliberal ideological agenda" contrary to Russian spiritual and moral values.
- German and French nationals topped the list with 168 and 140 recipients respectively, while United States citizens ranked third with 105 visas, placing North America's share at 15% of the global total.
- These permits act as a fast-track to permanent residency, granting immediate work rights and access to state social benefits while bypassing standard requirements for Russian language, history, and legal proficiency exams.
- Earlier this month at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Architect Anton Gilkin outlined plans to establish a town in the Nizhny Novgorod region designed to house 450 European families relocating under the program.
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More than a thousand foreigners obtained a Russian visa in 2025 for their adherence to the "traditional Russian values", according to figures communicated this Wednesday by the state news agency RIA Novosti. Precisely 1,112 visas were issued last year under this scheme, said Alexey Klimov, director of the consular department of the Russian Foreign Ministry. This visa, nicknamed "anti-woke" by several Western media, was launched in 2024. It is ad…
Peste 1.100 de cetățeni au primit visa rusești în 2025 în cadrul unui program al Kremlinului destinat persoanelor care declară că aderă la „valorile spirituale și morale tradiționale”, a firmat un înalt oficial al Ministerului de Externe, în timp ce Moscova își intensive ă messageele ideologice pe fondul războiului din Ucraina.
Russia issued over 1,000 visas in 2025 to foreigners who share ‘traditional spiritual and moral values’
Russian diplomatic missions and consulates issued 1,112 visas in 2025 to foreigners who “share traditional Russian spiritual and moral values,” Alexey Klimov, director of the Foreign Ministry’s consular department, said in an interview with the state-run Russian news agency RIA Novosti.
Russia Issues 1,100+ ‘Traditional Values’ Visas in 2025 as Kremlin Expands Anti-Western Push
The initiative has been promoted by President Vladimir Putin as support for those “coming under pressure” in countries where, he claims, traditional family values are being “abolished.”
In 2025, the Russian diplomatic missions issued 1,112 visas to foreigners, who applied to them as "segregating tra...
Russian MFA Issued Over 1K ‘Traditional Values’ Visas in 2025
Russia’s Foreign Ministry issued more than 1,100 visas to foreign nationals in 2025 on the grounds that they hold “traditional Russian values,” a senior official said Tuesday, marking the first full year of a program designed to attract conservative Westerners.
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