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Wouldn't exactly be a major surprise, I'd say, although some might say Tsaritsyn might be more appropriate!

I see the FEMEN girls made it to Moscow for the election last week.

They managed to protest at Putin's polling station before being dragged away.
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Yes, and no less impressive was when they also managed this in +40C during the heatwave of 2010!

In fact, I'd nearly go as far as to suggest your average Slavic female will probably be insulted if the question or suggestion of sex doesn't come up!

Agreed, Strav.

But not entirely unexplored.

I've been reconnoitering this particular henhouse for several years now with varying degrees of success.

VG.

Nor in Lugansk, I'm afraid.

Strav,

There's no answer to that!

VG.

Enjoying this exchange between yourself and Prosal about the merits of various Russian literary classics but maybe enter a small caveat on Bulgakov's calling card.

Some Russians I know (including...

I would suggest you're probably better buying your invitation and voucher (visa support) from one of the internet companies.

This will set you back approx $30 and take 48 hours or less.

If you...

Not like you to take things lying down, old boy.

There again...

Last couple of times I crossed over the frontier at Estonia and Latvia in the middle of the night.

I'm usually the "odd-man out"/only foreigner there as the others tend to be workers, ethnic...

Kurenda, I do agree with you and I myself do exactly as you do.

However, one of my colleagues who is exposed to this subject every day has a "view" that some of the authorities willfully interpret...

Kurenda, the moral of the story is that he should have taken them up on their offer to "come with us to the station".

Basically it looks like he is young, foreign and clueless; therefore a soft...

Pizdyets, I've no doubt this is true but it's the old story; if you run into the wrong guy on the wrong day...

Kurenda, I take your point about WaytoRussia.

The reason I referred back there is because I don't have my old files anymore.

Their Visa Forum is as you say filled with lots of different...

Kurenda, I've done this myself exactly as you write but I also know there is an opinion that you must regsiter WITHIN the third day, ie on the Tuesday in the example you instance above...so in other...

I take your point and would agree that somebody stopped outside one of the late night haunts so beloved of visitors, ex-pats etc would be considered an easy target for "our friends in uniform".

In...

Strav, just before this topic recedes into the distance I'm just trying to surmise what you mean by this?

A literal reading would be that either yourself or people you know are still getting...

You always get a better class of abuse from Bez. )))

Kurenda, thanks for that.

Very good report which covers a lot of the ground recently chewed over here.

Take your point about "visa registration" being a way to fleece foreigners.

On a...

[QUOTE=Kurenda]Are you sure about this?

Just returned from Russia and my migration card was stamped on the back with hotel stamp and signed by administrator. You don't need to "show" migration...

That's around what I would have expected.

I think it was either 120R or 140R when introduced in 2007.



"Officially" it is but actually there is some legal and empirical evidence that in some...

Strav, the changes I'm referring to occurred in Jan 2007.

I don't have the documents to hand that I had back then but I'll post the following below from the excellent waytorussia site...
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Doc, yes there IS a reason but no reason for YOU to worry about or instigate registration.

The onus is all on your host whether commercial or personal acquaintance.

The tourist/visitor has now...

Doc, not sure we're on the same wavelength here.

YOU don't have to do anything as there is no longer any legal requirement on you to either insist on your own registration or carry anything with...