The Russian Ministry for Development of the Far East is considering the extend the status of Free Port of Vladivostok to Blagoveschensk and Blagoveshchensk district border crossing point, the ministry official said.
Deputy Minister Sergei Kachaev who attended at the meeting chaired by Russia's Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev in Yakutsk said that "promotion of a Freeport regime to Blagoveshchensk in the context of further work on the establishment of a special legal regime of economic activities near cross-border areas, will benefit the city economy, and the Far East in general."