Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Valentines Day	High Maintenance and Whiny. Go FSU girls! Pretty boring over there in the UK forum, eh?	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-02-18 22:57:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Valentines Day	So.....why do we love our very hot AND very intelligent and cultured (and very much into us) FSU hotties? And why don't we like American girls? Have you just come from P&R? I think Jenn is pretty pxssed with some of us right now!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-02-15 21:17:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Happy Women's Day!	At any rate, can you try telling the truth for a while? Nobody likes liars. How ironic that YOU say THAT!!!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-08 23:06:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Happy Women's Day!	Happy women's day to all who read and post here! (Even you RJ )	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-08 01:19:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Just a warning	Russian slang for BJ. Good grief. Which forum am I in? It was way over their heads, eekee. At least in that form of the term. Got it! Not in my russian vocab book though.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-08 16:30:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Just a warning	I googled it and didn't come up with anything other than peoples last name. I'm lost. Glad to know I wasn't the only one left wondering.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-08 15:52:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Just a warning	Seriously you do not wait for holidays for this do you? It makes the best alarm clock in the world. Steak and Minyet please! Well done. Minyet?	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-08 15:11:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Just a warning	Dammit...they delivered her roses early.. She loves them and of course says it's not a problem and she got 11 not 12, but they were supposed to deliver Woman's Day roses on mmm Woman's Day..! Hmmmm I hope she's not expecting something else now tomorrow.. You do know that the florist saved you some grief by only delivering 11 instead of 12, right? Even numbers are only for dead people! (FSU superstition!!) An even number can be a bit of an insult! I specifically requested delivery on the 7th because considering their volume of business on this date I didn't want to risk that it would be the 9th before they arrived.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-08 15:08:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Just a warning	My wife has the same mentality. She doesn't like cut flowers because they will die. She doesn't like diamonds or other expensive jewelry because she says it's a waste. Score!!! My fiancee will not let me buy her much at all. She won't hear of my buying her jewelry! She is constantly telling me 'I very economical woman, I not need' But she has hinted that maybe IWD is an exception to those rules. Hint taken! (She does allow me to spoil her kids though. The 13y/o is doing quite well as a result!)	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-04 18:18:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Party Brazil Style	http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Carnival-Brazil/ss/events/wl/022811brazilcarnival;_ylt=Av5LmsdgBZvnZEUBUNIZ6uxwGLl_;_ylu=X3oDMTB1MmxnaGc2BHBvcwMyMgRzZWMDZXAEc2xrA2ltZ19oZWFkbGluZQ--#photoViewer=/110309/ids_photos_wl/r3176537819.jpg What does one do when they are bored ? Go through every pic up above... pic #166 has my vote. Being there in person for Carnival has to be high on the bucket list!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-09 00:12:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Panic In Detroit	Hello from a fellow Michigander The waiting is definitely hard, but it'll be well worth it when your fiancee arrives. If we are 'michiganders' will our fiancees become 'michigeese'?	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-02-22 15:41:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Panic In Detroit	I completely understand what you are going through! When I started this process I thought I would be different, that I would not let the waiting cause me stress! Ha! I learned better months ago. This situation is just so un-natural, being in love with someone and not being allowed to be together, having total strangers have arbitrary control over when and even whether you will ever be together. Add to that the problems imposed by language barriers! Even when one speaks the others language reasonably well there are still the cultural differences that cause misunderstanding and this can lead to unnecessary worry and doubts. It would be much better if the process were more transparent, if you knew what date you would be getting adjudicated, for example. But at the same time I am so happy I have found my fiancee! I remind myself daily how lucky we are to have this opportunity! Hang in there, the end result is well worth the stress we all go through in getting there!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-02-21 15:17:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Try a different visa processing service. Let them supply the invitation for a small fee. You don't need to make a hotel reservation. You do not need insurance. I did not stay in a hotel, but in my fiancees' flat and used a tourist visa. I used to use russia-visa.com. I think I found the link to Travisa on the russian embassy web-site. Figured I ought to use that to avoid problems. (Somebody probably makes a little extra money this way? ) It is good to know that I don't have to jump through as many hoops for the visa. I still have one more trip planned, to bring Olya and the kids here! I am sure we will make many future trips there as well. Edited by james&olya, 11 March 2011 - 11:27 AM.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-11 11:26:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	No they don't. They really don't, cause my fiance never did any of that. That's what it says on their website and that's the only thing he did - just fill out an extra form: no reservations, and i never ever heard anything from him about the insurance (what's up with that?) and every time he was filling out the visa application in front of me, while we were talking on skype, so he would have said something. Well, maybe it is a lot easier for us, cause my fiance stays at my place every time he comes, so we never have to do any reservations. Yeah, Russia is not going to do that. So does he do a homestay visa or a tourist visa? Maybe I am doing it wrong but I am just trying to do it as they explain on their instructions for tourist visas. I wondered if I could get away without buying the health insurance policy. The hotel reservations also I found out on my first visit can be changed afterward with no hassles. Still, why can't they relax at least a little with all the restrictions, especially with Putin talking to Biden about eliminating the visa requirements completely. (Which the US is unlikely to do considering the relative economic disparities for the average citizens)	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-11 02:01:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Are you kidding me? Now I'm surprised You found the most complicated way to get a Russian visa, really. All my fiance would do was just go on travisarussia.com, fill out the application visa form, fill out an additional form to get an invitation from them and then just send his passport and pay the money. All of that won't take longer than 1 hour. And he's been to Russia several times now, so I know for sure, he's telling the truth It's more complicated to get a homestay visa, but why you would even go for it, planning a short trip to Russia, when travel visa is that easy? I used Travisa also. They require you to have already arranged hotel reservations and an insurance policy before getting the 'invitation'. I found the 'invitation' cheaper from the place I rented an apartment the last time but it is convenient having Travisa able to do that. I am getting quicker with all of it but it still takes way more than an hour to get plans in place for a trip! Maybe it would be faster if my fiancee was able to make the lodging reservations for me. And I am always looking for good prices too. If I just took the first airline fare I saw and the first hotel it would be faster too. I also have to make a trip to a place that has the overnight express mail service that Travisa wants that we use. It would be great if Russia made these visas simpler or even waived them for US citizens like in Ukraine!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-10 20:39:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Msybe you can get a transit visa is an emergency. But he didn't think of this dodge. His story seems to be morphing as he realizes it doesn't fit the realities of travel to russia. Having been there several times myself I was highly suspicious of his claims. Before I ever traveled there I might have thought their visas would be like ours, that it is for entry anytime over a certain extended period that could be used whenever during that time you wanted. People are invariably surprised when I describe the steps involved in planning a trip there, getting hotel and airline reservations, then an 'invitation', lining up an insurance policy, and only then sending in my passport with the application for the visa and the appropriate fees. Spur of the moment travel there is not something I have figured out how to do yet. Is there a way it is possible without being a Russian citizen? Maybe with a business visa?	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-10 01:10:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	How pervassive is bribery there? I have visited countries where there was obvious solicitations of a bribe, but you could get around without paying it. It seems like from what I have read here that you really need to if you want to get things done. I never paid a bribe or was solicited for one, either in Ukraine or Russia. The woman I was seeing in Poltava got stopped twice for speeding, going 160 km/hr in a 90 km zone. A smile and a '20' ($2.50) took care of it both times. She told me to stay quiet so the cop would not know she was with an American! Might have gotten more expensive! I think bribery is an option to make problems go away or speed up slow bureaucratic processes. It also can help obtain credentials like driving licenses without taking tests, etc.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-09 18:35:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	I was addressing a tangential topic that was brought up in this thread. I thought it was on topic. Here is something that will go to the original theme of the thread. I have only been to Russia, once, and it wasn't for a long enough time to get any real exposure to the country. I have always wanted to go back, but the costs for flights that I have looked up on the various U.S. commercial sites seem quite expensive. I was told by someone that you have to take local carriers to get any decent price. First of all, is that true? If so, what are the best airlines to use? Secondly, I have read many threads in this forum over the years, and most people seem to suggest that bribes and "unofficial business" are a sort of norm in FSU states still. Is this true, and to what extent? Finally, my Russian co-worker, who refuses to even passingly talk about Russia suggested that Lithuania was probably the best vacation destination for someone to visit. Well, for someone with a very limited experience in the region, and unable to speak the language. Any comments or suggestions about these would be greatly appreciated. My first trip to the FSU was June last year. Seeing Ukraine and then Russia on subsequent visits in the company of a beautiful woman I was getting to know in person after an online correspondence was an experience beyond compare! I don't know if seeing these places just as a tourist, especially if a big language barrier were present, would be as memorable but I would still highly recommend it. I began this thread largely from exactly this sense of amazement at the experiences I have had there and also because of all that I have found I can learn on this forum. I think it a shame that we have so little understanding in our country of this part of the world. We share so much that you might not at first expect, and then there are some huge differences that make the experience being there so unforgettable. I had never heard of Kazan. But it is a very beautiful city, better, imo, than any city here in the US! I have seen Kyiv, Poltava, Kharkov, and Moscow as well. I look forward to many future trips exploring other cities and places.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-09 15:53:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	I'd like to see more of the one behind it, it looks like it might be gorgeous! Way better than that big yellow t<rd!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-08 23:24:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Either you have no appreciation for classic cars, or a neophyte. Either way, who wouldn't like this? So you're arguing petty semantics huh? I can see you do appreciate cars? What, from the cookie cutter overpriced roadster in your avatar? Pft. If you want a truck, get something real that gets the job done! That thing looks stupid!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-08 23:15:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Aw, I'd move to a place like that for a good man. A lady who cares so much about that isn't worth it. Get a nice coat and it's bearable. Now you tell me! Where were you a couple of years ago? Never mind, too late now! I have met and fallen in love with a terrific woman . If people want to consider her a MOB that is their issue! I have never said that there were NO american women that I could be happy with, I just never had the good luck to connect with the right one. But now that I have gotten interested in a certain FSU lady I wouldn't have it any other way. Sharing the same values and interests/goals in life but from very different backgrounds only enriches our relationship!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-08 14:51:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	But the worst... the cold. Having lived most of my life inconstantly 80-100 degree weather places, I didn't think it would be humanely possible to be so cold. Where I live in the US it is just a little warmer than where most Russians live. I had great difficulty on US internet dating sites due to where I live. Never mind it is one of the most beautiful places you will ever see. The cold and the distance from major population centers made it near impossible for me to connect with the right woman here unless I was willing to move. So where do you think a successful American family-oriented male might find an attractive, intelligent woman willing to consider moving to a place like this?	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-07 23:00:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Just back from Moscow. While there my future 2y/o step-daughter introduced me to some really good Russian cartoons, ???? ? ?????? (Masha and the Bear). I was surprised at the quality. I think they would be popular here also, especially with an English voice-over (hopefully with a good Russian accent!) For anybody with small children I would highly recommend them. I downloaded them onto my iPhone.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-02-08 23:00:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Wise decision. The large river systems in Ukraine (and most of Europe) are open sewers. literally. Not to mention the whole chernobyl thing. Not sure if it was surprising or not, but I always get a chuckle when some environmentalist starts telling us how dirty the air and water is in the US and how other countries do so much more to protect the air and water. Ackkkkkkkkk! One of Alla's most cherished things about this country is how clean it is. You and I are both very fortunate to live in places where the water is clean. I am not so sure I want to swim in some of the rivers throughout the east and midwest of this country either. I am sure they are cleaner than some in eastern europe but that is not saying much. I had been concerned that Olga might not like living 'out in the sticks' till I saw where she chose to spend her summers. To get away from traffic, noise, air and water pollution she rented a dacha, a very small and primitive cabin in a sort of campground near a river and small forest rather than stay in her apartment in Kazan. I know if she liked it there, she should love it here!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-01-13 09:10:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Did you actually swim in the Dnieper River? No, it was a small lake near the river. I think they are called ox-bow lakes, where the river has changed course at some time in the past. I didn't get in the water, it was a strange shade of green. And being down-stream of Chernobyl I decided I would pass.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-01-12 22:51:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	One of my most interesting culture shock moments was on the Moscow Metro. As most of you know, Russians are pretty cold unless they know you. People would let the door just go as they walked in even if there was a babushka behind them. What surprised me more was how well the babushkas could stiff arm a door coming at them. Well, me being me, I would hold the door for people in the Metro instead of letting them contend with a heavy door in their face. It was great to see the reactions too. People would be looking down and realize something was odd. I could see in their faces that they thought I was some panhandler looking for money as they started to look up. Then that look changed to either confusion of bemusement when they realized I was an American. I even got a couple of awkward "spaseba's." The best though was having a home cooked meal with the extended family. Made me appreciate families even more. In Ukraine I had the opportunity to go to a swimming beach in Kiev. The changing booth was primitive but functional. While I waited for Valentina to change, I noticed an abundance of broken glass in the sand around the booth. I got a number of puzzled stares when I went to work picking up the glass and putting it in a trash can. They seem to not think it dignified to perform such an act of service in spite of the obvious danger in allowing the hazard to remain. In Russia I have not seen that attitude yet, maybe I just haven't been there enough.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-01-12 15:45:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Just a note: those are not wheelchair ramps, those ramps for baby strollers. In FSU people on wheelchairs ought to stay home. That was what I was wondering also, they were too narrow for a wheelchair! I guess it is good that they are child-friendly but unfortunate that they have a backwards attitude to the handicapped. BTW, is the location of your photo Kiev, the park just past the end of Kreshchatyk Street? It looks familiar!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-01-08 00:30:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	It is a strange situation that most Ukrainian homes are spotlessly clean. Alla is borderline OC. Yet the outside is filthy. Go figure. Alla has no problem with this..."Outside is not mine" One of our sons goes to school in Moscow and when he is here for the summer he always stocks up on the English printed T-shirts. His favorite is the one that says "Let me drop everything I am doing and work on YOUR problem" I bought him one of theose hunting type ball caps, camoflage, with little lights built into the brim so he can read in his dorm room. The other guys in Moscow all want one now! They think it is just incredible. What a country! I did not drive in Ukraine, except for a couple times in Donetsk when we borrowed a friends car. It is too crazy for me and I really didn't need to drive. They are freaking wild and crazy. They will just drive upo on the sidewalks if they want to and they park just about anywhere. Some streets in Odessa would be completely blocked with parked cars. Just nuts. I was impressed also by the contrast between public space and privately owned space in Ukraine. The inside of the apartments I saw were beautiful even though the outside made you think you were in a ghetto! I decided if I could drive southern CA freeways at rush hour I could handle Kiev! I rented a car at the airport and ventured into Kiev. Trying to read street signs in cyrillic while negotiating the friday pm rush hour traffic was memorable! Streets in Kiev looked like they were designed more for public transit buses than private automobiles. Many one way streets and often long traverses the opposite direction you wanted to go to get to a street that could lead you back to your destination. Drivers there are skillful in handling their vehicles but that is about the only good thing I can say. Except maybe that there is little overt hostility expressed on the roadways in spite of the extremely aggressive driving. The only speed limit seemed to be whatever speed your vehicle was capable of reaching before you had to hit the brakes for a stop-light. I saw maseratis and ferraris that must have been doing 80mph at least on downtown streets. No police tried to give chase! And on the rural highways many drivers would go 160 km/hr on the two-lanes, playing chicken with oncoming traffic! The woman I was visiting was one of those drivers! The term 'bat out of hell' seemed to fit! And I agree with you about the parking. They use the sidewalks as parking lots, even have parking 'attendants' you had to pay. And if no parking was available anywhere else you just parked in the street! Blocking traffic! I suppose they have little choice since the cities there were obviously not designed for widespread ownership of private automobiles. One of the most bizarre things was the extremely bad road servicing an area with single family homes I saw in Poltava. They had an area of newer, nice looking western style homes mixed with old, small cottage-like homes. The dirt/rock road getting in there was barely wide enough for a compact car, full of very large and deep potholes, large rocks protruding that threatened to gut your drivetrain, no evidence anyone had ever done anything to try and make it passable. It was worse than any alley or even forest fire-trail I have ever seen here in the US. I couldn't believe we were on an actual road but it showed on the map! I was told it was OK then, just wait till winter if you wanted a challenge! Kazan was completely different. They were building new roads everywhere and the existing ones were very good, just with a lot of traffic. Traffic seemed to usually pay attention to lane markings and speed limits. It was very easy to get around there. Streets usually went both directions and traffic patterns seemed the same as any large city here. If it wasn't for the preponderance of very large apartment buildings and the signs being in Russian you would have thought you might be in a very nice city in America!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-01-05 20:44:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Agreed, they are very friendly to visitors. I do not agree about cleanliness of cities though. I usually did not look so close at their eyes...but yes, alla has very dark hair and piercing BLUE eyes. I have not yet been able to travel widely over there, only Kiev, Boryspil, Poltava, Kharkov in Ukraine and Kazan in Russia. But with that limited exposure I saw a real difference between Ukraine and Russia. Ukraine, outside of the showplace centers of the cities, looked very tired, beat-up, poor, and dirty. Trash everywhere, the infrastructure sadly decaying. I expected the same then when I went to Kazan and was blown away by the newness, relative cleanliness and neatness. Not like Switzerland but definitely putting American cities to shame! The architecture, both old (Kazan is 1005 years old) and post-soviet is amazing! Some ugly old soviet apartment buildings still but those are largely hidden away behind much newer, more aesthetically pleasing architecture. Very few McD's in Kazan but in Kiev there was one everywhere you looked it seemed! Every block downtown had one occupying the prime real estate in those beautiful buildings along the main street (Kreshchatyk). I didn't eat there, I found that Ukrainian food is incredibly good. And the drive-thru's were called 'McDrives' In Ukraine I felt like a foreigner, everyone dressed 'European' it seemed. In Russia I was struck by how much everything seemed to be like the US! They seem to be copying us more than western Europe from what I could see. And the roads and traffic were like here, relatively well designed and with people driving relatively normally. Kiev was crazy!! Absolutely no regard for speed limits! But then I witnessed first hand that on the few occasions police pull someone over for speeding it only took the equivalent of $2.50 as a bribe to take care of it. Many people, especially kids, wear printed t-shirts with writing, always in English. Sometimes it didn't seem to make sense, like the young woman wearing a t-shirt that said 'plastic flash'.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-01-05 14:16:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Large clean sidewalks/parks in the major city's, low cost of living, .... night life. I was amazed at the incredible downtown in Kiev, Kreshchatyk st in particular! But as nice as the downtown was, everything else resembled one huge housing project. (Which it was). I expected the same in Kazan but was then amazed at how much new building and good architecture, both old and new, was there. And the large number of 'golden arches' in Kiev! You would think it was their national restaurant!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-01-05 00:57:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	Best: All the beautiful women Worst: The culture Most unexpected: *See first answer RE: "Best" Yeah, the women are amazing! But we already all know about that. I mean besides the women.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-01-05 00:29:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Best, Worst, Most unexpected thing about FSU	I am sure I am not the only one here who has learned a lot more than expected about the countries of the FSU by meeting our fiance(e)s and traveling to those countries. I would be interested to learn what other members found most memorable and unexpected about these places. I thought I knew a lot about the world but I have been quite surprised by more than a few things. For instance, the absurdly aggressive driving in Ukraine, esp Kiev. How beautiful Russian cities can be. How they seem almost embarrassed about the cyrillic alphabet, to have status something must be written in the latin alphabet and usually in English. There are many more, what are your favorites?	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-01-04 22:58:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Report: Chechen Women Forced to Wear Headscarves	Because humans are given free-will, but apparently many haven't evolved very far in their thinking. Heard this argument repeatedly growing up. Thought it was lame then, still do!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-11 02:16:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Putin proposes scrapping visas between Russia, US	they have pretty much jack sh*t other than bread, dairy products, and a few outdated tractor and truck plants. Sounds like a backwards Wisconsin but without the GB Packers! Do they have beer?	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-11 11:19:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Moscow consulate DHL visa shipping	Does anybody here know if there are options when you pay for your DHL 'waybill' for the visa delivery after interview? I was looking at their russian site on the internet and DHL offers different levels of priority for rapid delivery, for a price I am sure. It would certainly be easier if it is just a matter of spending a bit more to get delivery guaranteed within 24-48 hours after the consulate has the visa ready. I have heard that you can pick up the visa at the moscow office 2-3 days after the interview if you have it held there but you may wait up to 2 weeks otherwise. If these higher levels of service exist are they an option that can be chosen in advance? It would be worth it to me to pay an extra 50 or even 100 dollars to get the visa without having to spend several hours stopping to go into central moscow that day when we are heading back here. But I don't like the uncertainty of just hoping it is delivered in time. We want to leave 11 days after our interview date.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-27 21:49:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Tourst visa from Ukraine to USA -- with regard to vaccines	You need to move to Ukraine Excellent advice for any single guys from Georgia!! Edited by james&olya, 06 April 2011 - 03:30 PM.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-04-06 15:30:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Tourst visa from Ukraine to USA -- with regard to vaccines	A 'record' of vaccines can be had for a price. Not recommending it but that is how things get done there!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-04-03 20:26:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	RoC approved	Kira went by herself to the embassy in Warsaw for her interview and it was pretty much cut and dry until they said something stupid to her like "Do you have more proof"?. Kira being Kira said get me your boss now please. "I have brought everything I am required to bring and unless you changed the rules this morning my paperwork is fine. Now get me the boss". The gal just stared at Kira and said come back tomorrow at 3pm to pick up your visa. The entire interview took like maybe 10 minutes if that according to Kira.	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-04-01 21:56:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	RoC approved	Congratulations! I would second what Lena and Igor had to say!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-03-29 14:57:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Proof of Ability To Support	Perhaps. But it's rarely the threat of being disbarred or sanctioned that sends chills down your average lawyer's spine. It's the cost of mounting a defense. You can literally win your case and lose your house. And you wonder why people hate lawyers!!	james&olya	Male	Russia	2011-04-22 11:50:00