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INVITATIONS, VISAS, AND REGISTRATION HASSLESExperience Russian bureaucracy!
On your request we'll make no effort to isolate you from the intricacies of the invitation, visa and registration process. Provided you are willing to pay for my time,
I'll issue you an invitation myself, which will expose you to the mechanism professional visa sponsors normally keep out of your site. You will do your own registration in the neighbourhood militia station. You'll spend hours and days at the famous OVIR. You'll be fined for not getting registered, and with some luck even prevented from leaving teh country.
I'll help you to experience, by going through the visa process, how truly unwelcome you the tourist and the cash and business you bring are in this land.
Come to Russia for an eye opening experience of how small and insignificant you are before the bureaucratic machine.
You may temporarily develop longing for your home public service. Don't be fooled, they are the same. To compound the shock I'll take you to the embassy of your own country where you'll pretend you are a Russian national wishing to visit the US, England or whatever for a further doze of abuse till you understand that there is no way out.
Write to inbox@unclepasha.com to arrange for this abasing experience.
Background: A page from The Final Exit by .......
(You will find a copy of this book in my apartment that is often available for short-term rent)