{"id":7704,"date":"2013-05-14T01:15:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T20:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=7704"},"modified":"2013-05-14T01:15:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T20:15:05","slug":"russia-scraps-visas-for-foreign-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=7704","title":{"rendered":"Russia Scraps Visas for Foreign Athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/r1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-7702\" alt=\"r1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/r1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/r1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/r1-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/r1-500x283.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>President Vladimir Putin has waived visa requirements for athletes, coaches and other staff attending international sporting events in Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Russia is hosting the Winter Olympics next year and the soccer World Cup in 2018. In August, the Athletics World Championships will be held in Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>The decree Putin signed Tuesday said the visa waiver goes into effect immediately.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify for visa-free status, athletes and others must have documents that confirm their identity and official accreditation from organizers of the sporting event.<\/p>\n<p>Americans, Europeans and others normally have to apply for a Russian visa weeks ahead of their arrival in the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir Putin has waived visa requirements for athletes, coaches and other staff attending international&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,149,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-russia","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}