Kazan — summer 2014

Good news today. All our summertime student invitations to Russia have been issued. They are now with the courier service on the way here. They should be here within a week's time.

Just FYI: before one can get a Russian visa, one has to have an invitation to Russia. Once you have the invitation, you can start the visa process.

You have no idea how pleased I am about this news. The US and Russia have a history of tit-for-tat reactions in issuing visas, so I had worried a bit that such a thing might happen at the invitation stage. It hasn't, so I expect the visa processing will proceed normally.