Russian Federation

Aevamo’s reading

Article 24 of Federal Law 114-FZ ('О порядке выезда из Российской Федерации и въезда в Российскую Федерацию') is the provision that CREATES the obligation at the heart of this regime: foreign citizens and stateless persons enter Russia on a visa unless an international treaty, the law itself or a Presidential decree provides otherwise. Every visa-free, visa-on-arrival or e-visa entitlement in this regime is an exception to that obligation; the kdmid conditions table, the e-visa order and the bilateral regimes are grants against that default, so 114-FZ Article 24 is the instrument that makes the requirement exist.

Article 24 of Federal Law 114-FZ creates the default obligation in two clauses: foreign citizens enter Russia on a visa unless exempt, and stateless persons enter on a visa unless exempt. The British document classes (GBD, GBN, GBO, GBP, GBS) and Kosovo (RKS) are foreign-citizen travel documents with no exemption on any held list, and the stateless/refugee categories (XXA, XXB, XXC, XXX) are covered by the stateless clause; so the default applies to all of them.