MOSCOW, June 21 (RAPSI) - The State Duma on Friday adopted in the third and final reading a law on the voluntary departure of foreign citizens subject to deportation. 

The adopted law envisages that a foreigner or a person without citizenship, who does not have legitimate grounds for staying in Russia and in respect of whom a decision has been made on voluntary repatriation, will now have the opportunity to voluntarily leave Russia on his own. 

The procedure of readmission, which implies the state's consent for accepting its citizens back and, in certain cases, foreigners who stayed or resided in the state, who are subject to deportation from another state, will cease. The procedure for ceasing readmission is determined by the Federal Migration Service in this case. 

If a foreigner has not left voluntarily, another readmission procedure is initiated. 

Those persons in respect of whom the readmission procedure has been ceased will be prohibited from entering Russia for three years. If a foreigner fails to voluntarily leave in the required period, then he will pay a fine of 4-5,000 rubles ($122-153).

A foreigner staying in Russia, in respect of whom a decision on deportation has been made, can be forwarded to another similar correction facility located nearest to the border checkpoint though which the foreigner's deportation is planned.