“We are pleased to announce the resumption of the processing of all short-term category C visas,” Interfax reports the message of the visa operator VFS Global.

Including the resumed work of offices in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Rostov-on-Don, Samara and Saratov.

According to the Irish Ministry of Health, to enter the country, tourists from Russia will need a certificate with a negative result of a PCR test for coronavirus, made no earlier than 72 hours before arrival.

Earlier, the Consulate General of Spain in Moscow said that "according to the norm currently in force in Spain, Russian tourists can enter the country if they are vaccinated with a drug approved by EMA or WHO."