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How to Get a Russian Visa: Step by Step Guide

If you want to travel to Russia, you need a Russian visa. In order to get the visa, you must first get a visa invitation letter (also known as visa support). After you obtain the invitation, you can submit your Russian visa application to one of the processing centers authorized by your nearest Russian consulate.

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Part 3: How to count in Russian - Russian language tutorial and phrasebook

To count in Russian is to get one step closer to the very advanced mathematical intelligence that Russians have. The thing is that Russian language is almost especially made for advanced manipulations with numbers. Because if you manage to pronounce "14" (chetyrnadtsat), then it means you can manage complexity. If you can write it, you can manage chaos. Otherwise, Russian way of counting is very logical, there are no weird things like there is in French, where you have to say "four times twenty" when you mean "eighty".

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Part 0: Untranslatable Russian Words

There are a few words in Russian that do not exist in any other language. Those words point to something that is unique to the Russian self and beyond. Learning them will not only be a good addition to your vocabulary, but will also open up a whole new universe, which is not available to the bearers of other languages. We've also included some Russian words that have a foreign analogue, but that are so special in their etymology that they deserve to be next to the untranslatable ones, as they open up a different perspective on what we've considered as given before.

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How to register a Russian visa, Russian visa registration laws

Every foreigner who comes to Russia should have his/her Russian visa registered within 7 working days upon arrival, excluding holidays and weekends. Before it is 7 days after your arrival, your tickets (train, bus, plane tickets) to the place you're in (e.g. Moscow) is the document, which can confirm how long you've been staying there.

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Russian Sovereignity

This article was written in 2011, after Putin announced that he was going to get elected for the 3rd term. This was a turning moment in the Russian history when many young people realized that the country is taking a new turn and went out to protest in 2011 and 2012.

An act is sovereign when it realizes itself by simply taking away its own potentiality not to be, letting itself be, giving itself to itself.

- Giorgio Agamben

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Oil & Gas

#oilandgas – The blood in the Russian veins and the air in the Russian lungs. Oil and gas is what keeps Russia strong and ironically both are the remnants of dinosaurs taken from under the earth by the most advanced technology man had ever known. The crudes meet the hi-tech.The oil is black and thick and gas is transparent. The oil is ensuring the global growth, the gas is providing the heat to more than 50% of the European households.

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Russian Culture

Even though Russia is considered to be a mix of Europe and Asia, this assumption is only based on geography. The reality is that culturally Russia has always been oriented towards the West and the recent influx of western lifestyle has created subcultures similar to those found in any other major country. At the same time, there is also something peculiar about the country and the people, even a little bit "Asian", which you can't really pinpoint. Perhaps, one could say that consciously the country is European, but subconsciously it's Asian.

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Trans-Siberian Railway: Best Cities to Visit

It’s better to make a few stopovers along the Trans-Siberian route, as it will make your experience more diverse and also make your journey more comfortable. If you are a hard-core train fan you can of course travel all the way from Moscow to Vladivostok (or Beijing), but you will regret that you haven’t stopped at Baikal lake after you see it passing by your window…

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Part 1: Russian Alphabet – Russian language tutorial and online phrasebook

If you want to learn something before traveling to Russia, learn the Russian alphabet. Most of the signs are in Russian, so it’s going to be much easier to find your way around if you can decipher cyrillic. So we highly recommend you to print out this page for future reference.

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The Expansion Period – 16 to 18 Century

The time from the 16th to 18th century was the period of expansion. Russia gained much more territory, established a strong army, and modernized the economy.

Also, the Ryurik Dynasty has given way to The House of Romanov – the second and the last family that ruled the country.

Under the famous tsar Ivan The Terrible (Ivan Groznyy) Russia expanded dramatically: it conquered Tartar states along Volga river and acquired access to Caspian sea.

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How to Get a Russian Visa: Step by Step Guide

Part 3: How to count in Russian - Russian language tutorial and phrasebook

Part 0: Untranslatable Russian Words

How to register a Russian visa, Russian visa registration laws

Russian Sovereignity

Oil & Gas

Russian Culture

Trans-Siberian Railway: Best Cities to Visit

Part 1: Russian Alphabet – Russian language tutorial and online phrasebook

The Expansion Period – 16 to 18 Century

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