From KUTV.com:
New LDS missionaries from North America will not be serving in Russia any time soon.
The Russian government changed a law to now require people with humanitarian visas to renew them every three months–that includes Mormon missionaries.
However, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints isn’t pulling any current missionaries out of the country.
Former missionaries say this shows the church is growing in Russia.
“I don’t think that they would have done this had they not thought that the church can really thrive without American missionaries there,” said former missionary Gavin Wilde.
The church is working to find an alternative solution, but for now new missionary assignments to the country will be limited to nationalities not needing visas.