Russian Visas -

[cameraguymn]

My passport has only 2 pages left for stamps and I may have to get a new passport. I'm assuming I'll have to get a new Russian visa. What have people heard about visas to Russia these days? I got my 3 year visa to Russia the month before the invasion so no issues.

[krimster2]

I always got my russian visas from a visa expeditier in Florida, i'd contact one of the expediters, there are at least 3 or 4 that I know if you google them
they will give ya latest info, i imagine it's gonna be slower
USA embassy in moscow is almost non-functional
credit card issue, etc, etc



if you have any military background/education i would not list it on the apllication as requested...trust me on this one....

[Trenchcoat]

My passport has only 2 pages left for stamps and I may have to get a new passport. I'm assuming I'll have to get a new Russian visa. What have people heard about visas to Russia these days? I got my 3 year visa to Russia the month before the invasion so no issues.

In the UK the Russian visa is stuck into the passport book and I assume is the same for the US. So would guess either a new visa or ask if you can get another visa stuck into the book from your original application. I personally wouldn't cut out and stick in myself as risk of issues doing that.

However are you sure it's wise to return to Russia CG? Last time I recall you got hauled up because of the Ukraine stamps in your passport book. They've logged that all down now so even with a new passport they will have all that on record when you buzz on through. They may take it as an opportunity to nab you this time for good, they might say you are a spy because you keep visiting Russia where a tourist would not visit so often, etc.

I don't know how it works in the US but in the UK you can apply and get a new passport whenever you like so if it were me I would have gotten a new one way early before visiting Russia so I didn't have to go through with Ukrainian stamps in my passport as that's just asking for trouble in my view. Same if I was visiting Ukraine with stamps from Russia in my book, not quite as bad as they are a friendly country but still could cause more hold up than hoped for. So in those situations probably less time and trouble to apply for a new passport than being held up on entry and/or exit.

[Trenchcoat]

if you have any military background/education i would not list it on the application as requested...trust me on this one....

I could put down 'military analyst' then put next to it that I could tell them what they did wrong lol

They may offer me a top job of the back of it!

[krimster2]

Trench,
Russians have NO sense of humor, none at all...
you won't like Russian immigration detention at the airport in that little room (and they freakin' lock the door!)....

meanwhile...
officer Vadim Konoshchenok extradited from Estonia to the United States

this means Russia is gonna have to get some new american meat to trade
they'll be lookin at everybody....
and you tourists ain't got NO FRIENDS in Russia
who ya gonna call if you get 'popped' by the FSB?
nobody....
hardly anybody at US embassy to intervene and unless you play basketball, no one there will care

I left Russia 2 yr ago...
I wore a lot of russian pins and badges and st. george ribbons to deflect gopnick anti-foreigner hostility
I also carried a steel cablelock and heavy padlock for my 'bicycle'
it was actually a fighting mace that I practiced with
I could easily crack a coconut with it
yeah, though I walked through the valley of the shadow of death (located near pushkin ulitsa)
I feared no russians, cuz I could whip their jhoppas real good with this
and militsa couldn't charge me for carryin a bicycle lock

this is what it takes to suvivie there, it ain't no country for old men

[civi68]

Hope you have a safe trip to Russia. It's definitely a risk of getting snatched up for a future prisoner exchange or for politics.

[LAman]

My passport has only 2 pages left for stamps and I may have to get a new passport. I'm assuming I'll have to get a new Russian visa. What have people heard about visas to Russia these days? I got my 3 year visa to Russia the month before the invasion so no issues.

I have no idea why you asked a forum that has no current traveling experiences other than political bull $hit read  from the internet and they want to sound like they know what their talking about or their experiences from 20 years ago/last century.

[cameraguymn]

sometimes their response is often entertaining. You and I travel much more than most of these posters but sometimes one or two do offer some good advice.

I have no idea why you asked a forum that has no current traveling experiences other than political bull $hit read  from the internet and they want to sound like they know what their talking about or their experiences from 20 years ago/last century.

[Boethius]

I have no idea why you asked a forum that has no current traveling experiences other than political bull $hit read  from the internet and they want to sound like they know what their talking about or their experiences from 20 years ago/last century.

So why aren’t you answering the question?

Personally, as a Westerner, I would be leery of travelling to Russia, even were I not so opposed to supporting a murderous regime with my money.

Incidentally, Bill was in Russia not too long ago (less than a year ago).

I have plenty of firsthand accounts of the "political BS" that is the invasion of Ukraine from relatives who have endured bombings, Russian forces invading their towns, witnessed atrocities, etc., and continue to deal with Russia's invasion on a daily basis.  I also have distant relatives that moved here as refugees.  Their children spent weeks in bunkers in Western Ukraine, with Russian bombs striking frequently.  Sorry if such "political BS" is far less important than chasing pootang.

[krimster2]

LAman so far, the BS is all COMING FROM YOU!!!

the question was specific about visas
nothin's changed on Russian visas, still same form to fill out, still the exact same price/process it was for me a couple yr ago and for you as well
you want up-to-the-minute info on russian visas in case of 'bardak'  then  talk to one of the online russian visa expediters, google is your friend

YOU sir, went to russia as a (failed) sex tourist
I lived there and worked there up until 2 yrs ago (i got out, cuz i totally knew what was coming)
and I learned WAY more things than you did than you did in your brief unnsuccessful sex tourist trips
how do you possibly manage to fail there? that's baffling to me

sorry charley, but clearly, you are VERY FAR AWAY from being the oracle of traveling to Russia
let alone livin there, meetin women there, having a business, buying property, etc, etc
so just chill moy brat...

but...
you wanna FIGHT somebody....
I'M your huckleberry

i'm a liberal soros lovin, biden votin democrat with marxist proclivities who supports BLM and equality for the LGBTQIA community, the latino community (and furries)
who eats republicans for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and also make tasty snacks out of 'em
and i'm freakin hungry right now

so by all means, do show us the error of our ways
and put us on the path to righteousnes
let's see what you can do
hopefully better than finding dates in russia
but I'm beginning to have doubts about ya

there's a difference between someone who is successful in russia
vrs someone who isn't
but you have no idea what that difference is....
and that's WHY ya failed

and now yur gonna lecture ME on this subject...that's so freakin hilarious....
cuz I got oichen manoga devs in Russia (including a wife and raised kids there) and made millions $$$ there in real estate and bitcoin and 'logistics'
and you got nichy vo dewd, not a god damned thing, NOTHING!!!

so don't take your disappointment in life out on others on RWD
it wasn't 'their bad' that led you to your failures in russia
it's was yours, and yours alone...

ok..?
we done here, but if you wanna have a willy measuring contest, then you should be aware that mine is SO BIG, it graduated a year ahead of me in high school...
you would just be embaressed when you whipped out your little cocktail weenie, compared to my boa constrictor (which must be fed at regular intervals or it becomes 'bad tempered')

[cameraguymn]

am I a sex tourist?

I visit Irina. She comes to my rented apartment in Moscow. We do a little small talk. She asks, "you want sex?"

I answer sheepishly, gulp, "Yeah."

"Take off your clothes."

I like her. We have dinner. Then she says she's busy and I also tell her I have to go to St. Petersburg.

I see another woman who comes to Moscow to visit me. We share the same hotel room. Stuff happens. We have nice Vietnamese food and pho bo. We walk around in Red Square.

Then two days later I go visit Elena in St. Petersburg. We don't talk about Irina. She doesn't ask what or who I've seen. We have a nice day. Second date she stays over. We have sushi, go to the bookstore, visit a few sites. She helps me get on the train to Moscow.

I do want to find someone to settle down with but some of them seem to enjoy the moment. We don't talk about commitment or they don't bring it up.

Sorry I read that long post but I stopped at failed sex tourist and wonder, "am I a sex tourist?"

Why is Laman a failed sex tourist?

I usually go for the very pretty women who have some sort of professional career and seem intelligent. They do not look like the IG models but they are very lovely and down to earth. They seem to look a sex as a casual thing and don't view it as an indication that we are nearly married now. Sex is like casual making out it seems to many Russians.

[krimster2]

ain't nothin wrong with bein a sex tourist
it's certainly a step above incel
at least sex tourists are 'trying'

but if you have to travel for sex
it means you have an insecure and irregular pooty tang supply....
which means from time to time, you're high and dry....

i'd rather get a secure supplier
who also feeds me and cleans my house
and helps me with my business
and not have to travel any distance at all to get it

feel the difference...

think of it as a circuit schemetic
you put the woman 'in the loop' instead of outside it
and you get better amplification that way

[cameraguymn]

I have a regular supply at home. But Russian women are two levels better and I love to travel and I love the chase. American women above 30....nearly all go down hill and explode 30 pounds heavier. And even though I have a regular 23 year old that I see she's about a 7 and not marriage material. And society tells me I should probably be dating 35 and up here.

I like Thailand but I like the chase and the illusion that it could be real feelings involved.

[krimster2]

a smart move for you would be to develop a business plan that allows you to work remotely
and move over there
have your bank accounts in euros/sterling in offshore banks and the IRS has no idea about your money so why bother reporting it

i've bought/sold almost everything you can make money on in Russia/Ukraine
i've done quite well

having a bad-ass FSU wife has been an essential ingredient for my success
now I have a Russian Cadre, 6'+ tall wife and daughters, son-in-laws
we walk in a "V" formation, with my big-assed russian son-in-law as point man
and everbody gets the phuque out of our way
especially when they spot the lanky, shifty looking geezer bringing up yhe rear (me!!)

[cameraguymn]

hahaha I imagined that scene with your posse walking in slow motion with sun glasses on and helpless peasants looking back in awe. 

I do have a great idea for my wealthy Russian lawyer and she likes it -but to get into business with me would be a major step in her declaring that we're a real couple and allowing her ex to see this new relationship. I'm not quite ready to give ultimatums so we're in this secret relationship and I'm seeing other women as she meanders with this relationship that she can't give up but she can't show off to her friends and family.

I love my job and would only give it up to go live with my Russian lawyer because it would be an all in move. So now I keep the dream job, collect my money, fly around the world every other month, meet beautiful women. If I didn't have these other options I'd be a little more clinging and pushing her to commit. But we talk everyday and we're okay for now.