The Next Visa To Russia…

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A Russian Visa…

Once you have received that initial Russian visa from your home country. The decision of where do you get your next visa for Russia is prevalent if you desire to stay longer in Russia…

Some people have no desire to stay longer than their tourist visa allows and are happy to get home once their vacation is up…

Some people a small minority have a desire to stay in Russia and experience the real Russia and not what the excursion guide is telling you all about Russia…

Others want to work in Russia and they must go through the proper channels of getting a work permit…

Some get business visas and make use of the ability to create and conduct business connections that enhance both Russia and your home country…

I am going to talk about getting a business visa once you have obtained a business visa from your home country. My level of experience is centered around the American experience. I also have no desire to spend a fortune and travel overseas back to America every time I want to get a visa. That just would not be any fun at all…

Since Svet and I travel a lot in Russia and out of Russia and I like to make business contacts on the way for future arrangements. It just seemed a perfect situation to get a business visa. So I simply have become a business visa expert while I wait patiently for temporary residence permit and ultimately permanent Residence permit…

I leave the country several times every couple of months and multi entry business visas give me exceptional flexibility to come and go as I please. They have allowed me to travel all over the world and still call Russia home…

I guess, with that kind of flexibility I am in no hurry to change the pattern very fast. The only downside is that I need to leave the country for a day or two every three months. That is a perfect excuse to take advantage of business in other countries at that point… 🙂

So for me to get that business visa quickly and smoothly, here is what I do. Now this is for me and I am based out of Moscow. If you live elsewhere in Russia you would have to adjust accordingly. And or for that matter use same for your country where you live if not Russia…

I use the Russian consulate in Kiev. I use the 90 day multi entry business visa. I take a train from Moscow to Kiev. I stay in a hotel one night.

Get your “invitation” sent to them by “Telex” just a few days before you need your new visa. (If like me and you are a regular customer they will already have your Telex pulled out and waiting for you.)

Have visa application filled out before you arrive at the consulate. Typed is the best but OK to print by hand. Two copies of the visa application and a photo pasted to each application, in the appropriate spot on the back.

Have one copy of your passport that is readable. They prefer black and white but color will do. Just make sure that it is clear and readable.

One copy of your immigration card that you received from the Ukraine border at the crossing. Once again a clear and readable copy.

So lest rehash what we need. One telex invitation sent to the Russian Kiev consulate. Two filled out Russian visa applications. Two Russian sized visa / passport photos (3.5cms X 4.5cms). One copy of your immigration card from Ukraine. (By the way make sure you have your passport with you! :))

Oh yes, and $250 dollars American. It can be cheaper but you must wait a lot longer to receive the visa. I get it same or next day for $250.

It is very simple and very easy. The most important thing to remember is that they respond with kindness at the consulate and the only time I see issues are when someone gets a attitude going and then things come to a screeching halt…

Getting another visa to Russia is easy peasy…

(By the way if you desire you can contact me by e-mail and I will help if I can for you to get a visa. It can be at times frustrating and seem hard but it really is not. Contact page in on menu bar…)

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Last Of The Lost Posts Have Been Posted…

That is it. All The posts that I can find for Windows to Russia have been found and posted again…

Google still got me for 234 posts that they have lost forever…

So yes, some posts are out of place but at least I got them back in the system…

Thanks for everything Google and Blogger Blogspot…

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London rejects BBC: Litvinenko allegations?

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London rejects BBC Litvinenko allegations:

The British government has stated that no intelligence or security officials are authorised to comment on the Litvinenko case. On Monday the BBC claimed British security services had found a link between the death of Aleksandr Litvinenko and the Russian state. Moscow was infuriated with the allegations and demanded explanations. Link

Looks like not much information. Russia just has to wait for Britain to get tired of playing the game….

Kyle & Svet

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Putin Talks About The Spies…

Vladimir Putin
Putin…

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin shared some details of his meeting with the returned spies.

Question: And you won’t say anything else?

Vladimir Putin: Well, you are not asking anything else.

Q: What did you talk about?

VP: About life.

Q: They say you did some karaoke singing together.

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VP: We did some singing, though not karaoke.

Q: What did you sing then?

VP: We sang to live music.

Q: Live music, and what songs did you sing?

VP: “Where does the Motherland start” – seriously, I’m not kidding you, and some other songs of the same kind.

Q: Was Anna Kuchenko present?

VP: What?

Q: Anna Chapman.

VP: Yes, she was. You know, there is not much to add here. Dmitry Medvedev already said that this is the result of a sell-out. And sellouts always come to no good, they end up in a ditch either drunk or drugged. The other day one such traitor kicked the bucket exactly like that, abroad. And there is no point doing it, really…

Q: You mean that you know all traitors by names?

VP: Of course we do.

Q: And you aren’t going to punish them in any way, are you? You think they will just somehow..?

VP: I think that is an improper question. And such decisions are not made at a press conference. Intelligence agencies have their own code, and all their staff follow it. As for these people, I can say that it has been a hard lot for each and every one of them. Just imagine – you must learn a foreign language as if it were your mother tongue, you’d have to think in it, and speak it, and execute all the tasks set by the motherland for many long years and with no diplomatic cover to back you up, and facing threats to your own safety and that of your families when, say, your own children don’t even know what you do.

Q: Could you say what they will do now in Russia?

VP: They will work, and I am sure they will have good jobs, and I am sure that they will live a full life.

Q: How high is your assessment of their performance?

VP: It is not my job to assess it. This must be done by experts and their superiors, and the end consumer of such kind of information, the supreme commander – the President of the Russian Federation.

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  • Putin Sings With Deported Russian Spies (news.sky.com)
  • You: Putin ‘sings songs’ with deported Russian spies (france24.com)
  • Russia’s Putin sings with expelled agents (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
  • Russia’s Putin Sings With Expelled Agents (abcnews.go.com)
  • Russia’s Putin sings with expelled agents (dailycaller.com)
  • “We know traitors by names” – Putin (rt.com)
  • Putin meets expelled Russia spies (bbc.co.uk)
  • Russia’s Putin sings with expelled agents (sfgate.com)
  • Russia’s Putin sings with agents expelled from U.S. (ctv.ca)
  • Putin pledges bright future to former spies in U.S (reuters.com)

Russia wont take much more and I dont blame them!

Originally posted 2007-06-05 13:34:00.

Hi,

This article on the USA and involvement in Russian politics, Is very accurate. The article tells it like it is….

http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/06/bear-baiting-courting-new-cold-war.html

Russia will get to a point and tell the USA to bug off… I am here and see it as a problem that will only get better when Bush gets his nose out of the Russian politics. Maybe the new election will put someone with intelligence in the WhiteHouse of the USA.

I don’t usually say much political but this has me hopping mad. I am a Conservative Republican, and yes I can see this as a major issue in the world.

America stay out of Russian politics……….

Kyle Keeton

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Ukraine Court Has Suspended The Election Results! (Yulia Strikes Back)

Originally posted 2010-02-17 12:23:00.
This article is for the 4 e-mails that I received that told me in not polite terms, that I was full of #@&*! That the election has been called and is done in Ukraine and because the Western world has called it fair, it is and will be fair, period! (Other words the election is signed sealed and delivered!) Oops – is all I can say…

A Ukrainian court has suspended the result of the recent presidential election, following a challenge by losing candidate Yulia Tymoshenko.

Mrs Tymoshenko, the Prime Minister, went to the supreme administrative court in person on Tuesday claiming the result was rigged.

The court says the result should be suspended while it considers the evidence she has submitted.

It also says the inauguration of winner Viktor Yanukovych should be delayed.

Ukraine’s parliament had agreed on Tuesday that Mr Yanukovych should be inaugurated on 25 February.

The new court ruling concerns the Ukrainian Central Electoral Commission‘s declaration on Sunday that Mr Yanukovych had won the vote. (Link)

Looks like that inauguration on 25 February is from people that expect Yulia to bow out gracefully! Yulia according to reports had around 9 volumns of information leading to proof of the accusations of fruad issues during the elections. Yulia says she has videos, written testaments, pictures and even poll officials/observer testaments that prove her case.

I saw videos of boxes of information going into the courthouse and Yulia marched that evidence in herself. I knew right then that it is going to take awhile to sort through this mountain of information!

I will say again, “It ain’t over till Yulia says it is over!” Yulia will never accept Viktor Yanukovych as the winner and if her actions in the 2004 elections do not make a believer of you, then her actions in the 2010 elections will.

I find it interesting…

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PS: The real questions are: Does Yulia have a case? – and – What happens next? – if she does. I also feel it is good to know that Yulia Timoshenko is afforded the ability to challenge the results of the election in court. This is a good see this of Ukraine’s system of government. No country should allow allegations of fraud and falsifications in their elections, without due process to determine the whole truth of the matter. It will be very interesting to hear and see all the details of these allegations.

From American in Russia: USA says Sorry Georgia, No Help!

Originally posted 2008-08-10 09:44:00.
Hello,

The USA has found that their sweet Georgia Democracy has lost its proverbial mind….

Georgia is partially responsible for the start of military standoff with Russia in South Ossetia, a top ranked representative of the U.S. Department of State announced August 9 on condition of anonymity. The United States long urged Georgia to avoid military conflict with the Russians, to avoid any escalation. The standing of Washington was clear from the very beginning, the unnamed diplomat said.(Link)

So sorry Georgia, you are on your own, Big Daddy is Alabama Bound!

Kyle & Svet

Drinking Coffee in Russia and Thinking…

I was drinking my coffee this morning and was doing some thinking’s…

“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Winston Churchill

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
John F. Kennedy

“An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.”
Oscar Wilde

“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
Woodrow Wilson

“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”
Edward Abbey

“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.”
Gustave Flaubert

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamn friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!”
Warren G. Harding

“The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.”
Bob Woodward

“Some of the press who speak loudly about the freedom of the press are themselves the enemies of freedom. Countless people dare not say a thing because they know it will be picked up and made a song of by the press. That limits freedom.”
Geoffrey Fisher

Just Thinking Today…

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Putin In Ukraine…

Putin just has way too much fun. Just watch the video and see how the Ukraine / Russian relationship has changed. Could you have imagined this several years ago?

Me neither…

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  • Putin rides Harley, ‘most democratic’ form of transport (ctv.ca)
  • Putin rides Harley at a biker convention (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Putin jumps on a Harley to praise motorbikes (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
  • Putin Responds to Clinton’s Repeat Performance… (windowstorussia.com)

In Russia a Lack of Smile is Deceiving…

I understand that Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy portrayed Russians as a brooding, complicated people, and ethnographers have confirmed that Russians tend to focus on dark feelings and memories more than Westerners do. But that may not be all bad after the results of a study released finds that even though Russians tend to brood, they are less likely than Americans to feel as depressed as a result. It seems that the University of Michigan conducted a survey, actually two surveys completed in the US and in Russia between 2007 and 2008. The studies examined 171 and 168 students, respectively. All respondents were around 21 years old…

The reports on the outcomes of two separate studies conducted with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health. In one study, the researchers examined the prevalence of self-reflection and depression among 85 U.S. students and 83 Russian students. Participants completed tests designed to measure their levels of brooding, and their level of depressive symptoms. The researchers found that Russians were more likely to brood, but that doing so was associated with fewer depressive symptoms than the Americans.

In the second study, 86 U.S. and 76 Russian students were asked to recall and analyze their “deepest thoughts and feelings” about a recent unpleasant interpersonal experience. The researchers measured their level of distress after this exercise. Then participants were asked to indicate the extent to which they adopted a self-immersed perspective (seeing the event replay through their own eyes as if they were right there) versus a self-distanced perspective (watching the event unfold as an observer, in which they could see themselves from afar) while analyzing their feelings.

Compared to the Americans, the Russians showed less distress after recalling the experience, and were less likely to blame the other person in their analysis of the experience. Importantly, Russians also indicated that they were more likely than Americans to spontaneously distance themselves from their experience while analyzing their feelings. And this tendency to self-distance was linked with lower levels of distress and blame.

But according to these surveys it was found out that even though Russians look like the biggest grumpy people on earth that they are happier than Americans…

But we are talking about 21 year olds…

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