visa requirements

[Wim Coudenys]

Dear Seelangers,
Indeed, there seems to be a change in visa procedures in Russia. A group of
Belgian and Dutch researchers is supposed to go to a congress in Moscow at
the end of this month, and personal invitations from the organizing
institution no longer seem to work: it must render the list of visitors to
the MID; MID approves or rejects the list and sends it to its consulate in
Belgium or Holland. Only then visas can be obtained. A return to the old
Soviet standards?
Anyhow, good luck!