Taiwan welcomes inclusion in Russian e-visa, protests downgraded name

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/06/20
By: Joseph Yeh

Taipei, June 20 (CNA) Taiwan thanked Russia Thursday for its recent decision to include the country

into its e-visa program to visit the free port of Vladivostok, but protested the downgraded name Russia uses to refer to Taiwan as "China (including Taiwan)."

Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) spokesman Andrew Lee (李憲章) said the Russian government informed Taiwan's representative office in Moscow June 19 of its decision to include Taiwan in the e-visa program.

According to the website of the Consular Department under Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, an e-visa is valid for entry into and exit from Russia only through certain border-crossing points located in the territory of the free port of Vladivostok.

Air checkpoints covered by the program are Vladivostok (Knevichy Airport), Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (Yelizovo Airport), Blagoveschensk, Khabarovsk (Novy Airport), Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk (Khomutovo Airport), Anadyr (Ugolny Airport), Ulan-Ude (Mukhino Airport), and Chita (Kadala Airport).    [FULL  STORY]