Following administrative mixups that have occupied for a month from oblivion by the МГУ (pronounced emguéou) to send our letters of invitation to the anxieties associated with those dates on will not forget the problems to shift our flight, we finally got our visas! And quickly too! By 1:30 they were ready! To be honest I still can not ...
We left at 4am Fougeres to arrive on time for the opening of the consulate and be sure to pass (they can in theory you back at 11am into practice they do it at 10am and closes at noon consulate);
an image of the consulate:''bunker''rather as a style no?
We have seen a succession of a CRS pacing in front of the consulate, a police car stopped and a cop whose descended rapidly rising to the same speed, and a police car which was reluctant to stop ... Atmosphere ...
another image of the consulate. With the Russian eagle this time ... It
There were twenty people in total at the consulate at 9am. It came quickly and was selected the correct queue because after twenty minutes they were almost certain to have our visas to 10.30 ...
There were some within the Russian consulate in addition to the staff that is exclusively Russian (évidemment. ..). It was a pleasure to hear Russian and it made him want to go ...
because we were a bit chilled when even after all our misfortunes!
Finally we got our visas (the voltage is really down when they had in our hands ...). Exhausted but happy, we can finally deal quietly our suitcase and fly the mind (almost) quiet at 1st September ....
NB: for all IEPiens voulent from next year in Russia, do not take your air tickets when you receive your letters of invitation and not before, even if you press a little to the IEP to take them ... it will save you a lot of trouble ....