President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to extend the regime of the free port of Vladivostok to the international air harbors of the Far Eastern Federal District, according to the list of instructions of the head of the state published on the Kremlin's website. This reported by TASS.

"The government of the Russian Federation should make amendments to the legislation providing for ... the extension of the Vladivostok free port regime on the territory of international airports in the Far Eastern Federal District," the document says. The deadline for execution of the order is December 31 of 2017.

Putin also instructed the cabinet to ensure the mechanism in the legislation that will enable the authorities of the region to provide tax benefits to investors "within the limits of the amounts they spent on construction and equipment of social infrastructure facilities in the Far Eastern Federal District."

The law on Free Port of Vladivostok came into force on October 12, 2015. It provides for the establishing of a new special economic zone embracing 16 municipalities in the south of Primorsky Krai, and some areas of the Khabarovsk, Kamchatka and Chukotka regions.

The president also instructed the government to ensure subsidies to make availability of air transportation of passengers from the Far East to the European part of the country and back. For this purpose the cabinet should use additional funds from the budget in 2018.

Extra funds should be also allocated to provide subsidies for transportation of cars produced in the Far East to other regions of Russia. In addition to this the construction of new border crossing points in the territory of the Far East should be financed as a matter of priority.