Talk:Russia

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Phrasebook

Is somebody able to add a small russian phrasebook? --Quarim-- 06:48, 18 September 2009 (UTC)

Police & Formalities

I do not agree with the registration part, police at the border did not care at all about any registration, same with police inside the country. The text for me sounds way too exaggerated and too much panic-making at all about this topic. Also what I can say for me, police never asked for any id's etc. while hitchhiking along/through/at DPS-Posts, they even stopped cars for me sometimes. --Platschi 18:11, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

  • Registration is important. On my last trip to Russia, for example, I was summoned to a local OVIR office, along with my host, and threatened with large fines (along with my host) for not registering when I stayed there for 5 days. If you are staying in a small town, like the kind that hitchhikers pass through, word quickly goes around that there is a foreigner there. I do agree though that DPS is friendly to hitchhikers. CRCulver 21:17, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
  • I asked several Russian hosts about registering - 1 said that they usually do check at the Estonia border. The rest of them say that their guests have never been checked. I was not checked when exiting at Zabaykalsk, despite being taken to an interrogation room and questionned for 30 minutes about what I was doing crossing at this border. Some believe the hassle/cost of registering outweighs the risk of being caught without it and getting a 2000ruble fine.Haggismn 09:17, 6 February 2011 (UTC)