Kazan — summer 2010

My Russian visa has arrived. I'm very pleased because I was worried it wouldn't get here before my flight, but it turns out the expediters knew what they were doing.

The first time I went to Russia, the visa was a separate piece of paper in three parts, all of which were taken back from you before you left Russia, so you were left with no record of where you were in your passport. This time the visa is pasted into my passport itself. Here is a picture of it. (I've blurred the vital parts to prevent identity theft and document forgery.)