The Russian National Library

[Slivkin, Yevgeniy A.]

Dear Anne Marie,
Thank you for sharing your experience with me. The problem, as I see it, is that OVIR registers foreigners, and I am technically not a foreigner in Russia since I am a Russian passport holder and use this passport to enter Russia.


Yevgeny Slivkin

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Dear Yevgeny,
I had a similar problem when I found myself 'unregistered' and potentially in trouble.  However, my friend was able to go to OVIR and temporarily register me at her address.  It wasn't easy and required a bit of pleading.  If you explain your situation - and provide official documentation from your host institute, a sympathetic official may come to your aid.
Good luck
Anne Marie

> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:53:30 +0000
> From: slivkin at OU.EDU
> Subject: [SEELANGS] The Russian National Library
> To: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> May be those of you who permanently live in the USA or Western Europe, but have dual citizenship and use Russian passports to enter the country of your birth (which is my case) could answer my question.
> I need to do research at the Russian National Library in Saint-Petersburg this summer. The library official website states that in order to obtain a library card citizens of Russia have to produce "pasport novogo obraztsa s otmetkoi o registratsii po mestu zhitel'stva v Rossiiskoi Federatsii; ili pasport i spravku o registratsii po mestu prebyvaniia, vydannuiu organami vnutrennikh del". It seems to me that I am going to fall into a legal limbo since there is no "registratsii po mestu zhitel'stva" in my Russian "inostrannyi pasport". In Saint-Petersburg I am staying in a friend's apartment. Have anyone of you been in this situation? I will be grateful for any suggestions and advice.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Yevgeny Slivkin, Ph.D.
> Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
> University of Oklahoma
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