MOSCOW, Jan. 17 - Russian migration service chief Konstantin Romodanovsky has said the new rule requiring Ukrainian citizens to enter Russia using only foreign passports has been put off at the request of Ukrainian citizens.

"We are well aware that the situation in Ukraine is complicated and we have put off the final decision on Ukrainian citizens' entry into Russia by foreign passports. As before they are being cleared into Russia by Ukrainian passports, but they will have to acquire a patent if they want to work in this country," he said in a Saturday news program on Rossiya channel, hosted by journalist Sergei Brilyov.