#also do you know where kaliningrad is

[the-one-where-casey-watches-tv]

The West Wing episode 4.20 "Evidence of Things Not Seen"

Have you ever noticed how the biggest names behind the camera tend to have close relationships with a handful of actors who are in everything they make? Aaron Sorkin is no exception, and honestly, I feel like I understand why. His work is so specific, just like Tarantino’s or Scorsese’s, and when you have such an identifiable style, I think it either clicks with you or it doesn’t. When you find people who click with you, whose brains meld seamlessly with yours, it really is a euphoric feeling and I imagine you’d want to keep those people close.

The West Wing, and Aaron Sorkin, click with me. Sometimes I watch a show and the thrill is having no idea what’s about to happen; I’m along for the ride in a vehicle that I barely recognize, let alone know how to drive. I would never be so bold as to think I could have taken the wheel of The West Wing, but to keep the comparison going, putting an episode on feels like getting into your mom’s car. You know all its little nuances, where the cupholders are, and how it’s going to feel on the road (and when to grab the handlebar).

“Evidence of Things Not Seen” has everything I love about The West Wing; it’s a fun one, but an inspiring one too, and it even guest stars- get this- Matthew Perry, fresh off of Friends. All the characters are mostly off the clock in this episode, so it’s time for a good poker game. Leo and the President are excited to kick back over a game of cards; Leo even has a full spread prepared, and tbh nothing makes me laugh like his reverent demand of CJ to “oooh squeeze this piece of rye bread”.

But the relaxation will of course be interrupted. The President will have to step in and out to negotiate with Kaliningrad- their government spotted an unmanned spy plane that we were flying over there, and Bartlet needs to talk them into giving it back. Our cover story: it was an environmental mission studying coastal erosion (Chinese spy balloon anyone?). Josh will have to do some back and forth too, interviewing a candidate to replace Ainsley Hayes as associate counsel.

Amid all of this, it’s the equinox, and CJ is convinced that at “the exact moment of the equinox” you can stand an egg on its end, and it won’t tip over. She’s carrying an egg around, but she hasn’t pulled it off yet and skepticism abounds.

All of Sorkin’s characters speak with what’s become his trademark cadence and tone so at times I see them as somewhat interchangeable- he just likes the sound of a group. But “Evidence of Things Not Seen” highlights the individual personalities and ideological differences that actually are present and consistent once you get past the similar speech pattern.

We’re launched into the title sequence with Bartlet giving the egg thing- and this coastal erosion cover story- a shot, but the egg topples over. His subsequently loaded “yeah, this isn’t gonna work” is about a lot more than the equinox. Compared to CJ, he’s always been a pragmatic optimist, entertaining every romantic idea but not expecting all of them to pan out. CJ, meanwhile, will always stick her neck out to vouch for the idealistic solution, even when it’s not even in the realm of realistic. She’s also usually right. In a previous episode, when everyone else guessed that the president’s approval rating had remained the same at best, she wagered that they had gone up 5 points, a number so preposterous Leo wouldn’t even repeat it to the President. Turns out she was lowballing. She’s also the voice of the iconic line “it’s about going to the blackboard and raising your hand- if you think you get it wrong sometimes, why don’t you come down here and see how the big boys do it.”

Toby’s even more complex than either of them, which I’d go so far as to say is the reason he also has the most complex individual relationship with almost every other character. He and Bartlet are a story for another day, but Toby and CJ’s deep, often wordless friendship really run wild in this episode. Toby’s created the image of himself as the pessimistic curmudgeon, but it’s a defense mechanism for the red hot idealism he’s carrying around. He’s so often disappointed, and he’s tired of it, but he can’t help but see so much potential in the world, even if he won’t admit it.

Will’s being in the Air Force won’t come up again after this episode, but it comes up in this one to serve the theme of Toby and CJ’s dueling worldviews. He’s heading to Wyoming to address a situation in which two launch crew officers who were slow to react to a threat of an incoming missile from North Korea. Turns out it was a good thing they asked some questions before enacting protocol, because it wasn’t a missile- it was a meteor from space. But they’re still being court-martialed because if it had been a missile, they wouldn’t have reacted in time. Toby can’t help but burst out laughing at this story (“Why do we think at this point that North Korea is attacking the East Coast of the United States?” “There are transcripts that show that surprise was expressed at that”). Then he turns it on CJ: “We failed on both a mechanical and human level. So tell me again what you have faith in”.

“Us. Because with what little free time he has, Will is going to Wyoming to defend one of these guys, and I don’t think it is failing on a human level”. Instead of responding, Toby lays down his cards, expecting to win the hand. But, in another symbolic move that speaks to a lot more than poker, CJ lays out a full house, sweeping up the chips in her unexpected win.

While this weighty discussion hung in the air, Will, Toby, and CJ had another thing to attend to- a bet amongst men that the other couldn’t hurl a playing card into the podium from the fifth row in the press room. They head down there, with CJ tagging along hoping to see them both fail- no one’s taking her very seriously tonight, after all. Instead of settling that debate, they’re interrupted by three gunshots slamming into the press room window. Will’s military training kicks in and he drops to the floor and rattles off ballistics to the secret service agents that instantly burst in, but CJ freezes. It’s Toby who pulls her to the ground in the heat of the moment.

I don’t love this being the second time CJ’s been “saved” by a man in this show (Sam did the same thing at Roslyn), but this interaction with Toby feels a lot more organic than that did, and so does the way they address it. On the whole, everything about an active shooter and subsequent crash of the building is a tired plot at this point. I’d actually go as far as to say this entire episode is pretty unoriginal- a criticism I read when doing some research on this episode. But I think the familiarity of the situation is exactly the thing that gives this episode that fun, cozy, President-in-a-sweatshirt feel. We’ve done the defcon 1 “can you believe it?!” active shooter plot before, so now we’re able to have some fun with it (“fun” on The West Wing is a relative term).

The secret service herds Toby, CJ, Will, and Josh into the oval office to make sure there’s eyes on everyone. Charlie and Debbie are already accounted for, but they don’t have code word clearance, so they’re not allowed in the Oval, where the spy plane discussion is still ongoing. At least, according to the Secret Service. Bartlet good naturedly explains that “if Charlie heard there were bullets, he’s gonna overpower whoever’s trying to—” and he’s cut off by Charlie, sure enough, bursting into the room. The President grins, we grin, he pulls Charlie in close and promises he’s okay. Satisfied, Charlie marches right back out. Then Bartlet says “I’m surprised you guys managed to keep Fiderer in her chair, I’d have thought she’d be the first one to- oh no here we are!” as she too fights her way in the room, looking the President up and down and declaring that she will be back to take his blood pressure shortly.

In a beat amidst the commotion, CJ asks Toby if he knew that a day on the moon and a year on the moon were the same thing. He did. The moment hangs there. Then she says, “I thought my reflexes before, in the press room, were cat-like.” And then we cut away. I love how little we have to say in this episode, and it’s our familiarity with these people, these rooms, and this situation that really let us all just play here in “Evidence of Things Not Seen”.

And nowhere is this episode having more fun than it is with Josh and the unexpectedly incredible chemistry he has with Matthew Perry’s Joe Quincy. Throughout this entire episode he’s back and forth between advising the President and interviewing new associate counsel Joe Quincy. Joe is quiet, collected, funny, and overqualified, but something is off about him, and Josh can’t figure out what. In an aside to Donna, Josh muses that “it’s the strangest feeling. It’s like… a really good baseball player is standing in the other team’s locker room for the first time.” To which Donna says, “I don’t understand, are you writing poetry about this now?”

But his gut is onto something, and he’s trying to figure out what- amidst it all, though, he’s also starting to like him. Josh is amused that the vetting team made Joe fill out the psychological part of the questionnaire- something he can relate to, and I’ll come right back to that in a second. Josh asks a question I think we all probably wonder when filling out forms like this but have never thought to put into words:

“Question 1: a) I do not feel sad; b) I feel sad; c) I am sad all the time and I can’t snap out of it; d) I am so sad or unhappy that I want to kill myself. You chose a) I do not feel sad.”

“Yes.”

“Good. Ever?”

“No.”

“No, you don’t ever feel sad, or…?”

“No, there are times when I feel sad.”

“Yet you checked the first box, why is that?”

“It said, ‘I do not feel sad’ and I didn’t at the time I checked it.”

This exchange, and their whole dynamic, feels both funny and poignant, but the tables turn when the shooting happens in the very next scene. Donna is instantaneous in checking on Josh, worried about the shooting stirring up his PTSD and telling him, against his wishes, that she is going to be giving his therapist a heads up that he might be calling later. 

When Josh explains the building crash to Joe, he says he didn’t hear the shots, but “I heard a brass quintet playing The First Noel, so I just assumed someone somewhere was locked and loaded.” Joe doesn’t hesitate to reply with “You know, not for nothing, but the people that I talk to don’t believe that story, and the people that you’d like don’t care.” He doesn’t say it unkindly, but like I said, funny and poignant.

But it’s not only the sentiment that throws Josh off, it’s the wording. Finally, Josh puts it together- Joe is a republican. Once his secret is out, Joe explains that he’s gotten himself in bad standing with the rest of the party by voicing an unpopular opinion, but he wants to work at the White House because, of course, he has a sense of duty. The whole thing is a soft, respectful, and incredibly loaded homage to both Ainsley Hayes and arguably the show’s best episode, “Noel”. And, just like Ainsley, Joe finds himself fitting right in, even as Josh tries to fight it. He recommends him to Leo and gets him the job.

I really love this episode for all the same reasons I think it often flies under the radar of West Wing greatest hits. It’s not remarkable, it’s not doing anything we haven’t done before, but it has its finger right on the pulse of every one of these characters. It’s exactly our deep familiarity with everyone and everything that lets the slightest touch hold so much significance, depth, and humor.  It just takes half a sentence for a character to say something profound about another, or to call back to nostalgic characters and plot points.  And I almost forgot to mention- we end with CJ standing an egg on its end. I well up every time.

[fandomlife-confessions]

We now have an empty inbox, thank you for your patience. I just have to share that I've seen a lot of actual propaganda here on lately which people actually share it around as facts

There's one post where people who suffered under soviet share their stories, one where one had their grandfather arrested because he listened to the radio and was never seen again and the propogandist said that there was female scientists in the soviet so that made it okay?? And people shared it... Want to know why they had so many female scientists? Because the male scientists were either killed or ran away. I'm not saying USA was any better at the time. Communists killed people for being capitalist and capitalists killed people for being communist.

Russia, China, and Israel have notorious troll armies, do not share their crap.

Have you forgotten how China treated the protesters in Hong Kong?

Do you believe the man who attacked his neighbouring country? The country that considered Russians their cousins? And now they're killing and kidnapping children? And pretend to be the rightful owners of their land?

I'm not saying the west is perfect, and there's lots of bad stuff here too. But do not share their crap! I saw one post lamenting Cantonese being a dying language because even when they were free their parents taught their kids English, but it's okay now, now they're learning Mandarin! Um... That doesn't solve anything, Cantonese is still dying, while more related aren't Mandarin and Cantonese the same, they are giving the population less options to talk to the outside world. Yes, China has one of the largest populations in the world. Here in Norway do we have a party called FRP, to not share my personal opinion, their main political mission is getting rid of immigration and their slogan is "for folk flest" (for most people). But if most people live in China, and if they don't want anymore but Norwegians in Norway, and Chinese people want to visit Norway, are they really for most people?

Yes China is seemingly standing up for Palestine now, but do not forget what they are doing to the Uyghurs at this very moment. There's also several posts about "X country did something bad, therefore all people from there are evil and deserve to die", or "their ancestors did something terrible so they are at fault", just no. Listen here. You are only responsible for your own actions, if your grandfather did, what your father did, heck, even if one of your siblings did something absolutely horrendous, it's not your fault or responsibility. You are responsible for your own and they are responsible for their own. But to some crazy fans out there, your ancestors didn't die so you could be creepy towards someone else or excuse being rude to someone unrelated because of it.

Heck they even used an Ukrainian woman to make deepfake Russian propoganda in China, it's disgusting.

(the ones owning that channel lived in China and loved it for all its faults which you can still hear in their voices, but they were chased out when they showed the faults to the world. They aren't just some foreigners pointing and laughing, they show off their own footage and what they receive from Chinese people or find behind the great firewall of China.)

I've myself been in Kaliningrad, this was a while before the the war, 10 years or so. I was there as the remaining parts of Königsberg are the remnants of Prussia which some of my ancestors came from. Never before had I seen such a depressing place. Drunks everywhere, down the Lenin bridge a man wearing nothing just pulling his clothes after him. Even though the weather was lovely, the whole place felt grey. Resembling the parts of Britain ruined by Thatcher. Soviet had the highest kill count during WW2, most of them their own for "not doing what they were told". Soviet was hell, there's a reason why so many wanted out, don't let them trick you into thinking it was a feminist haven.

And as I haven't seen it posted in a while:

Sorry for babbling but I felt that it's important to know. So if propoganda is sent here or you send in anything based on propoganda, it'll be reported or banned.

And hereby I declare the confession box open!

-Mod Nen

And no, if anyone's wondering, no there hasn't been any julehefter (comic booklets sold around Christmas here) like this in Norway since 2019.

And if you are interested, @fjordsoncomic aka. Nordlys comes out in English sometime this year. And so is Oppfinneren! Neither of them has the old man yaoi above, so you don't have to be afraid to be arrested in Russia for reading them.

[beardedmrbean]

A group of Russian troops sent to Ukraine to fight for the Kremlin’s “new” territory is threatening to raise absolute hell over what they describe as pointless suicide missions—and they’ve made clear they’re willing to turn their weapons on members of their own team if necessary.

The draftees from Kaliningrad have already appealed directly to Russian President Vladimir Putin to complain of ancient weapons, lack of training, and people dying “for nothing.” In a video released publicly earlier this week, they shamed top military brass by saying there appears to be no battlefield strategy whatsoever and declaring that “this is no way to fight a war.”

Now, a video has leaked capturing the aftermath of their complaints. In a five-minute clip released by the independent outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti, the men can be seen surrounding a commander sent out from Kaliningrad and warning him they will put up a fight if they are not heard.

“You can jail us all! How many years is it, 5, 7, 10? We don’t give a fuck!,” one soldier yells after the commander tries but fails to convince them to obey orders and storm Ukrainian positions.

The troops say they were never meant to be part of assault teams, but were instead assigned as members of territorial defenses. The Kremlin-backed proxy troops fighting in occupied Donetsk, they say, send them on suicide missions while they themselves “run away” or sit around away from the gunfire.

‘You’ve Been Screwed’: Russian Inmates Rebel and Flee From Commanders

They shout that they’d rather go to jail than go on guaranteed-to-fail assault missions “for who knows what.”

“Did you see that puddle of blood here? That person was sent to storm [Ukrainian positions], so he pulled the trigger, because he knew where he was headed,” one soldier says. “Do you want suicides here?”

After the commander responds that they’ve presented a “weak” argument for not obeying orders, they warn that they will use force.

“No one is going on this storm. You can fucking jail us all. And if someone tries to trick us and say we supposedly aren’t going there and then they throw us on the frontline, it will be a shitshow, it won’t be forgiven, we will just go head to head against them,” one soldier says.

“Honestly, we’re ready for that,” he says, asking the entire group: “Is everyone ready for that?”

“Yes, yes! Everyone!” the group responds in unison.

“We are so fucking angry after the deaths of our friends, … we’ll walk on foot, we’ll leave by taxi. Fight your fucking self!” the apparent leader of the group says.

He goes on to tell the commander that several other soldiers had been “taken away,” apparently after also protesting conditions.

“They came at night. What is that? Is it 1939? NKVD? Black ravens?” he said, referring to the Soviet secret police rounding up “enemies” in night-time raids.

The latest uprising by draftees is just the latest of many as the Russian war machine finds itself running out of men to use as cannon fodder. And in a particularly ironic twist, more and more of the same young Russian citizens that Putin claimed to be trying to protect from outside forces with his full-scale invasion are now being sacrificed for the sake of his conquest on Ukrainian land.

“Previously, the Donetsk and Luhansk draftees were used as expendable materials, but now it’s the Russians,” military analyst Kirill Mikhailov told iStories of the mounting conflict between Kremlin-backed troops in Ukraine’s occupied territories. “They cannot fight any other way. If the approach doesn’t fundamentally change, which I doubt, then Russian draftees will keep dying this way.”

[stepanovkonstantin]

You see my extract from the Kaliningrad Psychiatric Clinic. I was placed in this clinic absolutely healthy on illegal grounds through a neighbor who works in the prosecutor's office and corrupt police officers. By the way, in the extract, a deliberate mistake or typo was made by the hospital employees in indicating my street (They wrote Aldayskaya street instead of Aldanskaya street). The fact is that I am Konstantin Yurievich Stepanov, who was born on July 11, 1990 in the city of Kaliningrad, a Russian citizen without a criminal record and criminal cases brought against me since 2014 and to this day I have been subjected to persecution and pressure from an organized group of people who are closely connected with Russian law enforcement agencies. These criminals use hidden video cameras, hidden microphones, hackers into computer devices, surveillance on the street, provocations in my direction and presumably they have devices for remote radio interception or interception of the magnetic field of computers to remotely intercept the monitor image of any computer device. They secretly collect information about me, enter my apartment at my place of residence when I am not at home, grossly violate the inviolability of my personal life, arrange provocations, threats, damage to my property, hooliganism, sometimes attack or attempts to attack me. For some reason, Russian MIAs do not conduct exhaustive investigations into my allegations of crimes. Moreover, I suspect that the employees of the Russian MIA themselves may be involved in the persecution of me. The FSB, the Investigative Committee of Russia, the Prosecutor's Office are inactive. For some reason, MIA have been trying to set me up for a long time after my statements about the criminals who are persecuting me. As a result, on September 22, 2022, the employees of the Russian MIA themselves illegally sent me to a madhouse. They said that my appeals to the police about the persecution were proof of my illness. I emphasize that the employees of the MIA, FSB, the Investigative Committee have never checked the apartments where I lived with special search devices for the presence of spy devices or hidden video cameras in the apartments. At the same time, on paper, they answer that investigations were allegedly carried out and my reports of surveillance and persecution were not confirmed. At the previous address where I lived: Kaliningrad, st. Kartashova 28 D apt. 8 I was involved in the persecution of a neighbor at the entrance from the apartment 11, who is himself an employee of MIA of Russia. Also, I know that Russian MIA employees can receive information from my smartphones, computers, on the basis of which I conclude that MIA is involved in this persecution.

[ak-alexandra]

honestly, the number of people i keep coming across who have an opinion on what consitiutes east or west europe and yet have no idea finland has a border with russia.

europe is one continent, what happens on one side of it affects what happens on the other side and everyone in between. yes, even the uk despite what boris johnson thinks. do some research people, don’t just rely on the television

[unhonestlymirror]

TOP Jujutsu Kaisen questions that disturb me

1. Why Japan is the only country in the world which has such amount of curses, if it's the only country with the biggest amount of sorcerers?

In the manga, I don't remember which chapter, it was said that the better a person (sorcerer) controls the cursed energy, the less it leaks to form curses. From which it follows that curses are formed mainly from ordinary people. By this logic, shouldn't there be a lot less curses in Japan than in other countries? (lol, by the way, according to this logic, geto should have started his "hardcore eugenics" journey not from Japan, but from Kaliningrad, russia) (it always shocked me how many people in this country dream of dying)

Because if "the stronger the sorcerers and especially the Six Eyes, the more curses are attracted to them" (somewhere in the Gojo vs. Hanami chapters, I think) is true then - imagine we sent Gojo and few dozens of strongest sorcerers to vacation in a godforsaken place, on the other side of Earth - e.g. to the same Kaliningrad, russia (I'm sorry, Gojo) - what will happen? How quickly and how many curses will begin to form and go there, if we take into account that russians themselves are trying to get out of there as soon as possible, no matter where?

People have bad feelings and thoughts everywhere, somewhere more, somewhere less - and I'm not really sure Japan is the monopolist in bad feelings. The world is huge. Where does this localization come from? I hope Culling Game will solve this question.

(I am inclined to believe that this is propaganda to prevent the drain of brains and strength. Real Japan is quite a closed country as well. Because if JJK Japan is the only country with curses, then Miguel's African tribe wouldn't have made sense of weaving magic rope for generations, would it?)

1.2 Jujutsu Schools. It's kind of a continuation of the previous question.

It would make more sense if there was mentioned that 2-5 old countries on each continent has its magic school but Japan has the biggest libraries, biggest nurseries with curses, Japan has the most experience because of Sukuna, Japan is a monopolist in the production and supply of cursed weapons... or something like this.

I understand that Jujutsu Kaisen was originally intended for the Japanese reader, who wants to escape from reality, and not immerse themself into World History and cultures, which (s)he does not care about - but a simple mention would be enough - and the non-Japanese readers would thought of everything themselves. But this way it feels like a glitch in the matrix. Or propaganda consequences.

2. Why is it customary for sorcerers to hide the existence of curses from ordinary people (if ordinary people are the main reason for their appearance)?

It really stinks with "we are the chosen one, and of course we are not heroes, we just want to save as much people as possible - nevertheless, we won't conduct public education and trainings "what to do if you faced with a special grade curse, you are not a sorcerer and you don't want to die", "what to do if you suddenly started seeing horrifyingly realistic hallucinations which murder people", "what curses are and how to protect your family if they (and you as well) can't see them", "whom to call" - because for what? Average people are so stupid, unlike us. :// Also we won't tell victims' family members how to protect themselves so it won't happen again, because it doesn't really matter, we all gonna die anyway. S.W.A.G"

For my fullfilled with Japanese stereotypes あss it doesn't make sense, because it always seemed to me Japan LOVES public education trainings for ANY kind of situation, especially for possibly dangerous. But I'm not Japanese, thus, I shut up.

It really stinks with that JJK Japan benefits from an unenlightened population, because sorcery is an industry that brings in a lot of money - but not too unenlightened, because the economy cannot be isolated from the ordinary world, and "money never smell". I would like to know more about that collegue of Toji and that Kenjaku with Chinese politics moment. I would like to see rallies of ordinary people who are tired of mysterious disappearances, invisible killers and the silence of the government. I would like to see more ordinary "blind" people who are aware of the existence of curses, more sorcerers who tell their families about curses.

3. Why we still don't have our analogue of Hange Zoe, although it's already almost 200 chapters Why nobody cares why curses attack people and why nobody does researches?

Do you also feel this smell of politic repressions?

4. How valuable are being considered cursed items and weapons?

The question is in production. And how rich the Zenin clan is if they can afford to give Maki, the clan's renegade, glasses that allow to see curses. Imagine how much fewer deaths there would have been if such glasses were available to ordinary people.

[dearophelia]

self indulgent grey’s spy!au

so i’m watching madam secretary again and it’s reminding me of the grey’s spy au i was frantically texting @evil-redhead about last year

(first of all, and i did the research to learn that this isn’t actually possible, but it’s fic so who cares: please imagine with me addison as elizabeth’s surgeon general. thank you and goodnight)

second of all, and this is just copy/pasted from text messages with some very light editing:

-one-

The kill order comes in over encrypted text just after 2:30am Kaliningrad local time. Addison knows the logic: take him out and the whole supply chain through the Baltics collapses. She also knows the reality: taking out gun runners in former Soviet states is like playing whack-a-mole with a baby hammer. Eventually someone in the Company will figure that out and change tactics. In the meantime, she has orders.

She speaks flawless Russian with zero accent, which helps when she steers the arms dealer out of the party and up to his private suite. She pretends she’s from the same village as his grandmother, tells stories about a local borscht variant. He compliments her tits and her legs and everything else he can see. What he doesn’t see is the way she twists around her ring and flicks open a hidden compartment with her thumb while she’s pouring the vodka.

Addison watches as he eagerly takes the shot and then turns an interesting shade of purple. He’s dead within ninety seconds.

She takes a shot of clean vodka, wraps up in her black trenchcoat, and slips out the back entrance into the night.

There’s a pay phone four blocks down. She calls her handler and leaves a message about the museum being closed tomorrow, code for mission complete. She checks out of the hotel and is on the next flight to Helsinki away from here.

-two-

Addison likes Mark Sloan, she does. He’s a good asset and a great fuck and she doesn’t at all mind that their schedules sync up in Helsinki more often than she syncs up with anyone else anywhere else. Helsinki’s a good place to lay low for a few days, even easier when she’s hardly getting out of bed.

But he’s DIA and she doesn’t trust defense guys farther than she can throw them. Goes out of her way to avoid them, usually. But Mark’s good company, great fun, and nothing they do in this hotel room ever happened the moment one of them leave. So she’ll let the DOD thing go as long as it doesn’t interfere with her own work.

He’s making breakfast and trying to tell her a joke he overheard. This never ends well, but she indulges him. It falls apart in the translation – “You’d find this hilarious if you heard it in the original Czech,” he proclaims, setting a plate of eggs in front of her.

Addison eyes him over a forkful. “Since I don’t speak Czech, your odds aren’t looking good, Sloan.”

Mark’s still telling his joke and she smiles as the sun rises over their tiny hotel room.

36 hours and then she’s off to Paris and meeting a DGSE contact she can hardly stand. Then, armed with that information, back to former Soviet listening posts. Maybe this one will be inland.

-three-

Addison takes the right hook like a champ, luring the goon into a false sense of security. She drops down, grabs a broom from the floor, and lets the guy have one last laugh at the pretty girl with the stick before she comes whirling in and knocks him flat on his ass inside five seconds. Another goon runs out of the shadows and she cracks him across the skull so hard he actually skids across the floor.

“Impressive,” her contact says in dripping French. He sips his tea.

“The file?” she holds out her hand. No one does intelligence theatrics like the French. Not even the Russians.

With an irritated sigh, the DGSE agent drops a USB drive into her hand. “It self-destructs after 24 hours. Would not recommend keeping it in your suitcase.”

Addison gives him a tight smile and returns to her hotel room.

Derek, this time.

(Mark is Scandinavia and the former Soviet states. Derek is Western Europe. Alex is usually somewhere in Central Asia and Jake is in the Mediterranean.)

She waves off his concern about the shiner blooming over her eye and slides the drive into her laptop. “Order room service,” she tells him as she pulls her shirt off, changing out of bloodied and ripped clothes while waiting for the drive to load.

It’s not his fault he hovers. He’s an embassy doctor, bouncing around Western Europe for the State Department. Last time he got into a fight was probably high school. Last time he had to do anything classified on his own was probably never.

He orders – including red wine and extra ice, which she’s sure makes the kitchen worker on the other end say a few choice things about Americans – and her laptop chirps ready.

Volgograd this time. Not a weapons dealer. A physicist. A nuclear physicist. “Oh boy,” she says to herself.

She books a hotel in Volgograd and then places a same-day Amazon delivery for post-its, a portable printer, tape, and other supplies. She and Elizabeth call it the conspiracy theory order, though she skips the red string.

While Derek’s setting out dinner (and sets a bag of ice intentionally – and somewhat aggressively – in her direction), she sends a secure text to Alex.

gonna be in vgrad for a minute. you nearby?

Dinner’s over before she gets a response.

yep. even have some intel for you.

Addison puts her phone away and turns to Derek. “I’m fine,” she says, gesturing to the cuts and bruises.

“I know.” Still, he wraps his arms around her in a gentle hug. “I worry.”

She hugs him back. They haven’t been married in a long time. “I know.”

He gently maneuvers her to the couch and opens his bag. Addison went to med school too – though the CIA scooped her up during her residency – and a few of the cuts need butterfly closures for a couple days. She lets him work.

“How are Meredith and the kids?”

-four-

“Lox and two chives,” Addison orders at the counter, as she has the last ten days. “And the bathroom key, please.”

The cashier slips her a key. She pays and disappears down the hallway with the bathrooms, but opens the supply closet instead. Past shelves of paper towels and cups and cocaine (not her problem, not today), she pauses at the second door. The handprint scanner flashes blue then green at her palm. The door unlocks.

Bright lights overhead, several whiteboards shoved up against the walls, photographs and maps taped up everywhere. The single desk in the middle of the room is covered in folders labeled TOP SECRET, most of them open. Alex puts a cup of coffee into her hand. She finishes half of it before she even takes her coat off.

Spy work isn’t all glamorous. It’s mostly sitting in dark dank rooms filled with boxes of moth-eaten paper, trying to connect two dots. Alex is a good partner for it though. The fact that he’s CIA too doesn’t hurt – she doesn’t have to play the alphabet agency paranoia game with him.

Hours pass. Another day, another half step closer. The bagel shop closes and they slip out the back by the dumpsters.

“You want to grab a drink?” she asks as she has every night.

“We could skip drinks,” he suggests.

She looks at him in the flickering parking lot light. Normally he says yes, they get drinks and dinner, talk shop, part ways at her hotel.

A small smile graces her lips. Addison doesn’t need to be a spy to pick up Alex’s meaning.

Volgograd is fucking boring. And she and Mark have an exclusive-when-we’re-in-the-same-city agreement, not exclusive-everywhere.

The smile shifts into a smirk. “Yeah.”

-five-

This is a bad idea. This is a really bad idea. This might be the worst idea she’s ever had. And yet.

Flicking her eyes up to the rearview mirror, she gets a read on the car following her. Scratch that – cars. Plural.

She slams on the accelerator and calls Elizabeth.

“I need a favor,” she says as soon as Elizabeth’s picked up the phone. Addison hears several small children laughing in the background.

“On it,” Elizabeth says, once she’s heard the situation and the favor. “Give me ten minutes.”

Sure. She’ll keep leading a high-speed car chase through Southern Turkey and try not to accidentally make a left into Syria. She can keep this up for ten minutes. Why not.

She has the final piece in a USB drive hidden in her shoe, but this extremely stupid idea only becomes worth it if she – or, she supposes, her shoe – can get back to the agency. Which is where Elizabeth comes in. Addison’s nowhere near Ankara and the embassy, driving into Syria is an even worse idea (and she’d run out of gas long before hitting Damascus anyway), and so she needs an exit. Now.

Seven minutes and Elizabeth calls back about an airfield fifteen miles away. A Blackhawk will be waiting there for her, but she has to clear a couple layers of airfield security first.

Addison looks back up in the mirror. Three cars now and she thinks she sees the silhouette of someone hanging out the window with a gun. She’s going to have to have a discussion with Derek about suitable conversations he has with his current wife about his ex-wife the CIA agent and international spy. It’s not Meredith’s fault; GRU’s been tailing Derek since they were the KGB. Addison makes a mental note to remind State about that, maybe have someone sweep his house for bugs on a more regular basis.

But that’s a later problem. A much later problem. The more imminent problem is that she’s being shot at and still has seven miles before the airfield. “Can I just drive through security?” Addison asks, making an abrupt right down a skinny unlit street.

“Sure,” Elizabeth says. “It’s our airfield, do what you want.”

“Not the first time I’ve destroyed US government property.”

Elizabeth snorts. “Call me if you need anything else.”

The call drops as another round of gunfire shoots past.

“You’re really bad at this,” she mutters at the car behind her. They haven’t even managed to blow out the back window yet, not that she’s complaining.

By the time she hits the airfield, they’ve shattered the back window, blown several holes in the trunk, and they hit one of her back wheels just as she slams through the first security gate.

The second gate guards are a little more prepared and already have the gate lifted. They drop spike strips behind her to trap her pursuers. She jumps out of the car to the sound of many tires being violently punctured and the sound of angry Russians being thrown out of their cars and onto the ground.

The Blackhawk lifts off into the dead of night. Addison runs her fingers through her hair and texts her handler that she’s on her way back to Istanbul. She’ll hand off the intel to people who get paid a whole lot more than she does and move on to a new case.

Maybe South America, this time. Let some heat die down before bringing her back to Europe.

Once it’s all settled and she’s in her state-sponsored room, showered and sitting in a fluffy bathrobe, she checks her messages. One from her brother, about Thanksgiving logistics. One from Elizabeth, making sure she made it out okay.

And one from Mark.

Case is taking me to Venezuela. Gonna be a while, Red.

Addison grins. Her new orders came in just before dinner. Turns out there’s some worrisome news in her area of expertise coming out of the South America desk and the Company’s shipping her off to Caracas.

Maybe not. My flight leaves in a couple days. Buy me a margarita?

[elliotwindsor]

Long Gone Days Theories

***SPOILER WARNING***

***Following is a theory for possible plot line for the up coming chapter of Indie Game ‘Long Gone Days’ by Bura, and contains SPOILERS. Do not READ if you haven’t finished the game or wish to avoid SPOILERS.*** ***SPOILER WARNING***

REGARDING RAVEN FAYE

We first hear of the existence of Faye from the conversation overheard from the abandoned camp. Here, we learn that a high ranking officer and a member of Raven Squad has gone missing or potentially dead. Then much later in the game, we see her name in an email exchange from NSB’s right hand man to his boss, naming her as a usual contact person but she is no longer coming, and that they will meet with a ‘new woman’ instead, which we later know as Branna taking over her roles.

With these two information which can make a few assumptions. Not only was Faye high up in the ranks of the Core, but she was privy to some of more confidential operations like working behind the scene as a political contact to politicians of various countries. Surmising from the duties Branna has taken over, we can also assume that Faye was a contact person to Beqiri too and knew of the operations he was conducting for the Core.

Then comes Lynn’s testimony about the time she was captured in Aldebaran. She was released by one of ‘Beqiri’s underlings’ and ‘she’ told Lynn about Kaliningrad. From Lynn’s perspective, who doesn’t know the finer working of Beqiri and Core’s operations, it is plausible for Lynn to believe that everyone she sees in Aldebaran to be Beqiri’s underlings. A woman, who knows about the fate of these captured women, has enough resources and information to release them and let them escape safely, AND let them know where to go to be safe would have to be someone placed at the heart of the operations, and Faye fits the bill at this time.

Further confirmed by Dev Sim confirming that the Rourke and Adair aren’t the first soldiers who defected from the Core, we can make further assumptions.

1. Faye is a soldier who defected from the Core.

2. She is the one who let Lynn escape from Aldebaran (potentially the trigger that gets her started on this ‘vigilante work’).

3. She could still be alive, using her death as a disguise for her trail.

4. If she is still alive, she could have escaped and now working with other ex-Core soldiers, forming a resistance.

5. She wouldn’t have left the Core without a successor, in case of her death or failure (Coyle?).

LIST OF EVIDENCE

Radio conversation overheard from the abandoned camp

Soldier 1: Man, that's… Wow. What does that even mean?

Soldier 2: Well, I'm as puzzled as you are! Do you think she might be alive?

Soldier 1: I don't know, chances are looking grim.

Soldier 2: Crap, I really looked up to Raven Faye.

Soldier 1: Yeah… Out of all the Ravens, Sergeant Faye was the only one without her head up her ass.

Soldier 2: I have really had it with their superiority complex.

Soldier 1: Yeah, screw those pricks! Shit, look at the time! I have to go back to the base or they are gonna kick my ass again! Talk to you later!

Soldier 2: Ha ha ha! They left you alone on patrol again? Hello? Oh, okay.

Adair: Hmm… It looks like the transmission ended.

Rourke: I wonder what was that thing about Sergeant Faye. I had heard the news, but...

Email from Matthias Kohler to Horst Weber

From: M.Kohler@nsb.de To: H.Weber@nsb.de

Subject: Meeting.

"Sir, there's some changes related to the meeting tonight.

Our usual contact, Faye, is not coming. They're sending someone else. A woman."

Lynn’s Testimony

Lynn: They said me and other girls would be transported somewhere else. They mentioned something about a train.

Atiye: Train? Didn't they mean the subway? There's no train station nearby.

Lynn: That's what I heard, but whatever it was, I'm glad I never got to see it.

Atiye: So you managed to escape before that?

Lynn: The day before our departure, one of Beqiri's underlings took pity on us, and helped us escape. She was the one who told me to go to Kaliningrad.

Dev Sim’s confirmation: “...both him (Rourke) and Adair aren’t the only soldiers who defected…”

[magistralucis]

18 for soft gop bromance, please! The usual (^_^;) Thank you, love you!!

18: Drinks on the patio/deck of your fave place // Gopnik AU Bromance (Soft ver.)

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Louis was at his happiest in the evenings.

After sunset was when he worked at the restaurant. It was the last artifact of their previous life, now made safe through his efforts: he loved to cook, oversee the kitchen, weave gently through the conversations of the night. He had never felt more alive as when he was there, meeting and helping people. The restaurant healed him from the years he'd spent neglecting the goodness of human beings, and afterwards, healed his lover too. On summer evenings, when Mike was on break from university, they would step out the back and share drinks together. The nights were warm, and now and then a cat would come along, nudging insistently against his hand. Life was good.

Tonight, however, was special. Tonight they were awaiting not only customers, but precious guests. A table was prepared for them in the part of the patio usually sectioned off for reservations. The guests were coming straight from their travels, so presumably, they'd want to be - no, it was the polite thing to serve them right away. It was for that reason Mike and Louis were kept busy from early afternoon; Louis sank into a chair, and took a deep breath, as the hour of their arrival drew near.

It had been years since they'd last met.

Louis was elated this reunion was happening at last, though he was mildly nervous as to whether Vincent and Sebastian would be like he remembered. Whatever he felt, though, he knew Mike would be feeling in spades. Amidst table settings and special menus he refused to forget his lover, and the moment he caught sight of him, he called out: "A drink for you, Misha?"

Mike turned around. “A... pardon?”

He was dressed casually but handsomely, befitting his reputation as the best-looking man in Krasnodar (when he was around - as well as in Kaliningrad, of course, when he was around). Louis was enamoured. “Shall we have a drink before they get here? Just the two of us.”

Then, more softly: “It’s all right. You know no one can see us here.”

No one else was to be seated in this area that night. Only the two loving couples, if all went as intended. Mike smiled. His expression was still uncertain, but he took Louis’s offer and sat down opposite him. Two beers, chosen for their chill more than the flavour. They were silent for a while, sipping from tall glasses, ice clinking against the sides. Louis watched the foam subside in his glass for a moment before he spoke up again. “How are you feeling?”

Mike laughed slightly. “Nervous.”

He wouldn’t even have admitted to that, once upon a time. Louis was surprisingly relieved. In their old city, Mike had grown to see Sebastian and Vincent in a near paternal light, and he still felt that way most of the time: he was struggling with the impulse to seek their approval, to really show them he had improved as a human being. “Is that weird, Lyova?”

“Not at all. It’d be more unsettling if you weren’t nervous.” Louis shook his head. Condensation dripped down his hand and the summer breeze soon dried it away. “I feel the same, too. It’s the anticipation that kills, doesn’t it?”

“Indeed.” Then much to Louis’s surprise, Mike suddenly began speaking of the past. “I’ve been waiting for this moment since we settled in Krasnodar. Even when I didn’t know if I’d ever see you again, when all I had were my staff and my pigeons trailing behind me... I was always thinking of how I could thank them for all they’ve done. For being there for us before we left. We must have put them through so much, when we disappeared...”

He faltered, paused, then resumed again. His cool fingers laced between Louis’s own. “I feel I haven’t even paid back a hundredth of what they did for me. Letters and gifts only go so far from this distance. It feels as if I’ve been waiting for about fifty years to see them again - and now they actually are nearby, and I actually know how to show my gratitude - I’m, I’m so tense. I’m so excited I can hardly breathe. But I’m also equally worried I’m messing this up somehow.”

“Believe me, you’re doing incredible.” Louis was amazed: Mike very seldom talked about their past unless prompted, and even then, it was mostly in apologetic terms. This was the first time Louis had heard him actually analyze his feelings across a timeline, and admit to something that wasn’t guilt for once. “If you messed up at any point, which you didn’t, I did also. I mean, look at me: it’s not just you who’s got the tremors.”

He pointed below the table, where unnoticed by Mike, he’d been bouncing his leg restlessly throughout the entire conversation. A wry little smile returned to his lover’s face. “Besides, it’s not just the plan (whispered with a wink) that expresses our thanks. I think they’d be extremely proud of you if they heard what you said.”

“Do you think so?”

“Mm.” Louis clinked his glass against Mike’s own. It was already dark. Across the surface of their glasses darted pinprick reds and greens of the traffic across the road. “They helped give you back a life of excitement and you took it. Imagine returning to your garden after a long absence, and finding that a sprout you’d left behind had grown into a tree and was flowering.”

A quiet light entered Mike’s eyes. He did not comment more upon this, nor did he obviously take this as a sign of approval, but he didn’t need to. That look told Louis everything there was to know. A creak sounded several steps away. Someone was walking across the patio. Louis and Mike stood up in a hurry, just in time to see the figures of two men led by a cheerful young waiter. They turned the corner, entered the section - saw - and stopped.

One had vivid silver hair, star-bright beneath the restaurant’s lamps. The years had been kind to him; his brown eyes softened in laughter as soon as he saw the couple, and it was ever so familiar, the warmth in his expression. Beside him stood dark-haired Sebastian, his face exactly as piercing and pale as it had been when Mike had first met him. His first reaction was much like Mike’s own, disbelief followed by relentless joy - so relieved, and so overwhelming, that he literally didn’t know what to do with himself as they rushed to meet in the middle.

Louis felt his heart swell with warmth. That was pride, all right.

“Welcome, my friends!” He cried, laughing as Sebastian and Vincent nigh tackled the two of them into an embrace. “So many summers, so many winters! - Oh, I’ve missed you both so much!”

[e7y1]

The four in the Core

Long gone days au fic where Rourke, Adair, Lynn, and Ivan all started in the Core. Spoilers for Long Gone Days

The Core has been here for many years raising many soldiers.

They are always loyal to their 'father.'

Always loyal to their 'family.'

Nothing can shake that loyalty.

Right?

The soldiers always start with stars in their eyes, ready to serve the cause.

Ready to die for the 'world's peace.'

Or at least that's what they think.

Adair has been on many missions with Raven squad, his first being a relief mission which he won't admit gave him great pride.

Rourke hasn't even been on one but he is now ready to join on a mission with the Raven squad since Coyle broke his arm.

....

"I can't believe you get to go with the Raven squad on this. It seems almost too good to be true."

Lynn, Ivan, Rourke, and Adair were eating together in the cafeteria. In just a mere few hours they would have to call it a night so Adair and Rourke could rest up for their mission.

"I know right? It's great. Not that Coyle broke his arm I mean. I just hope I can make even Sgt. Branna proud."

Ivan shook his head. "We know how she can be. That's going to probably be impossible."

Rourke shrugged. "You never know."

....

Rourke and Adair never return from their mission.

....

Lynn and Ivan ended up getting questioned because of Rourke and Adair's defection. The thing that the both of them could agree on is the fact that they have no idea how or why this happened.

Either way, they need another medic on the field and the next person on the list is Ivan.

Sure he might not be jumping for joy on this but he is ready to help however he can.

Ivan with some other troops show up at this one town very close to where Rourke and Adair defected from, just up the river actually.

It was small and quaint; already looking more like a ghost town save for the troops going about their business. Sgt. Gareth could be heard nearby giving orders while Ivan finished setting up his medical building.

Just when he stepped outside he heard something fall in the nearby woods.

Ivan hated getting himself into trouble, especially if it lead to violence but something about this peaked his curiosity.

He just couldn't keep away.

Ivan crept closer to the trees, not letting out a single sound save for the footsteps on fallen leaves before freezing at what he saw.

It was a dirty young girl, no more than 10 years old, curled up on the ground in absolute fear.

Ivan glanced back a moment before kneeling beside her, already set on getting to work. "Hey, it's alright. I'm here to help."

The girl looked up at Ivan with wide eyes brimmed in tears. When she saw him, her breathing hitched and she did her best to crawl away but quickly collapsed in pain from the shot in her side.

His heart wrenched at the sight. Ivan raised his hands up in a sign of surrender. "I, I'm not going to hurt you..."

She fearfully watched Ivan before nodding.

Ivan grabbed the antiseptic and-

....

Lynn was devastated at hearing that Ivan had defected.

She had absolutely no clue as to how this would have happened but it did and just... she's confused.

Either way the Core needs their best bomb expert for a mission in Kaliningrad.

....

Ivan ran.

He didn't know where he was going.

He didn't know how far he would go.

Not that he cared.

He just wanted to get away.

He just wanted to get as far as he could as fast as he could because darn it this isn't right!

Ivan stopped at a river and collapsed by it.

"H-how, could they kill her... she was, she was innocent..."

Ivan sat there staring into the river not noticing his surroundings.

Or the fact that someone was staring at him.

"...Ivan?"

Ivan stumbled up, practically tripping over himself, and turned to the figure behind him.

Or should I say figures.

There stood Rourke and Adair in different attire looking at Ivan with concern.

"We, have a lot to talk about."

....

Lynn ran behind many buildings making sure everything was set up before ducking behind a safe barricade.

With one last scan she pushed a button and everything went up in flames.

She never realized how intense this would be in person instead of in some training simulator or how much she would feel her adrenaline rush but this is what she was trained to do and so this is what she will do.

Once the dust settled enough for her to see, she ran to her next position.

Past all of the fire and the sounds of her friends yelling-

Hold up.

Lynn stopped and turned to see Rourke, Adair, and Ivan facing off again Sgt. Gareth and some men.

She narrowed her eyes at them. *How could they really betray us! We're family and they turned their backs on us! On me!*

Lynn looked between her friends and Sgt. Gareth figuring he's got this covered before running back to her job.

She sets up the next charges, just as usual.

She ducks behind cover.

She goes to push the button.

She stops.

In the window she sees kids running out with their assumed mother.

She drops the remote. "I, can't..."

"What do you mean?"

Lynn turned and pointed her gun up at Sgt. Branna. "Oh, Sgt. it's you."

"What do you mean you can't?"

"There is kids inside, sir. We aren't here to kill kids we-"

"No loose ends right? We have to kill them."

"But sir-"

"You say you are loyal. Well, are you?"

"Of course I am..."

"Then press the button."

Lynn stared up at Branna before looking to the button. She hovered her thumb over the button before squeezing her eyes shut and-

not pressing it.

"What are you waiting for? Just press it!"

"No."

"What?"

"I said, no. I am not pressing it. I can't press it. We are supposed to be bringing peace but killing a bunch of kids isn't going to bring that. It's only going to start a war!"

Sgt. Branna let out a long sigh and held out a hand. "Give me the button."

"Why would I ever do that?!"

"Because I am your superior and if you ever want a chance at Father Eugene ever being pleased with you again you need to give the button now or set it off yourself."

Lynn stared up at Branna before gritting her teeth with narrowed eyes and running.

Branna spoke into an ear piece before glaring at Lynn and shooting at her.

Lynn kept running, never once looking back.

She understood now.

Understood why the others would defect.

She also understood that she should duck into an alleyway or something right about now.

Lynn turned the corner just in time to see people fleeing to some sort of ferry and upon looking around, spotted her friends filing in.

Lynn only had to think for a second before chucking the button into the water and running onto the ferry after her friends.

None of them looked back.

[marianhellequin]

Nulogorsk.fm - 01: Pilot

[[Author's note: I'm not so great in translating into English. So dear native English-speaking readers, I'll be really very glad if you leave a comment if something’s wrong! Thank you.]]

A friendly northern town where nights are white, days are dark, sea is cold like the hearts of the ancient gods, and arctic lights in their beauty can compete with a mysterious shining, which we are all scared to even glance at.

You're listening to Nulogorsk.fm!

First of all, an important message from the municipal government.

Nulogorsk government reminds that the military community located after the nothern highway exit from A-800 is former, closed and left under the decree of the municipal government from February, 29th, 1993. Noone lives at the territory of the military community. Noone works there. There is no living or nonliving soul. The military community is abandoned, closed and sealed for eternity - they say in the decree. The municipal government reminds you: if you see servicemen without military rank insignia, they are just a phantom of your imagination. If not only you see them, it is a phantom of your collective imagination. Do not try to talk to these servicemen. Ignore these phantoms of your imagination.

It's a significant day here today in Nulogorsk - after many years of repairs, the Palace of Culture is finally re-opened. Surely, all the important citizens will come for the opening, also a short briefing will be held, as well as a concert on the occasion of opening. Concert-bill is still elaborating.I remind you that the Palace of Culture was closed for a few years due to major repairs. The reasons were leaking roof, wall cracks and stucco moldings falling down off the walls. All the rumours about some kind of a way to some kind of an abyss opened in the vaults of the Palace, that artists and workers who stayed late after the concerts heard horrifying, ghoulish howl, which was coming like from every wall and every dark corned, that on the long, dark November days all the building winced and shaked as if because of the panoptic terror - that's all of course just idle rumours, and shame on them who pass it.

Now all the repair works are finally finished, the newest sound and video equipment is already brought, and Nulogorsk cultural life is ready to play out in fresh colours!

So, now everyone's waiting for the complimentary speech from our Mayor Pavel Borovik, who will officialy cut the symbolic ribbon after this. Our Mayor's speeches are always unforgettable! We can just recall his congratulations on last New Year, when he traditionally but in his unique manner wished success, health and luck to all of us, using frozen bull-trout, his expensive shoes in the colour of sycamore and his whole vocal range of 3-5 octaves. For sure today we will all be impressed by his words.Sadly I can't be there now at this wonderful event, but who would then tell you of everything happening in the town, dear listeners?

But I'm sure our new intern Olga would help us! She's waving, you can't see it but believe me as usual. I'll send her to the place for the most precise report, she'll sure deal great with it. See you, Olya! I'll be waiting for your messages as soon as possible!

And while Olga is going to the place, a little bit about traffic.

Due to technical difficulties, the central bus station will be closed from Thursday, 7 a.m. until Sunday, 5 p.m. All the arrivals will overpass. That's what the bus station operator says.

Somewhere far away a giant lorry rips in the highways, and a small woman is driving it. The teeth of this lorry, enormous, can grind a diamond. The lorry snorts fire, and it seems like to be all made of pipes. We don't know where it's coming from. We don't know where it's going to. I don't know what it carries. They say museums explode on the way of this lorry.

A giant lorry rips in the highways far away. How far is it from us? How close? Where does it go?

The bus station operator notices that the station closing isn't connected with this message.

This was the traffic.

To other news.

This morning a group of servicemen with military rank insignia arrived to Nulogorsk. As their leader, a beautiful woman dressed in perfectly fitting field jacket with Major's stars, says, they came because of safety issues. There were no details, despite legitimate questions from the journalists, for whom a short and quick news conference was held. But still there are many questions. What happened to safety in our little, cosy, quiet town? Why now? Why Major's hairstyle is so perfect, and her eyes are looking so strikingly right into your soul?

We didn't get answers to those questions.

Last news, on-the-spot message from Olga! Our Mayor Pavel Borovik has just finished his inspiring speech. He recalled how many events took place in our Palace of Culture, how we celebrated Town Day here, New Year, Knowledge Day, Gnosis Day, Harvest Day... Oh, I remember those wonderful New Year nights! The fun that united everyone, young and old... on such nights, teenagers for the first time tried 16-kopek plombiere ice-cream and "Kaliningrad" champagne! How strongly I wanted then to come back into my childhood and feel what they were feeling: the delight of novelty, the expectancy of unpredictable future and existentialist horror of it's imminence!

By the way about imminence.

"Blacker than darkness" coffee and bake shop invites the people and visitors of the town to try something new, double cake with orange jam and candied peel! Wonderful for to go and to get out, ideal with coffee. If you order the cake and any coffee except espresso, you get vague anxiety until next morning for free! For strict vegans: coffee on soy milk, carrot cake and a feeling of grievous loss. Offer doesn't include orders to go.

Let's get back to the main topic of the day. Just now, our esteemed Mayor Pavel Borovik has officialy cut the lily-white ribbon into thousand of smallest pieces which flew away with the wind just like our young hopes and dreams. Local amateur orchestra played a solemn melody, and doors of the Palace of Culture were opened for the first visitors chaired by Palace manager, Mayor and a representative of the press service of the municipal government. As Olga says, everyone just passed the red carpet covering the entrance stairs and came into the spacious lobby decorated with flowers and flecks from the gorgeous crystal chandelier. The orchestra refused to come in, saying it can make them go out of tune, but as Olga says, their eyes were suspiciously shifty. I wonder, what's this all about? Sadly, I don't have music education, so I even can't suggest!

In the same way, I can't suggest why our humble radio station is interesting for the servicemen with military rank insignia, but I can assure that I was really glad to see Major Andreeva with her perfect hairstyle, expressive eyes and even more expressive body language within our walls. I asked if I could help somehow or buy her a cup of coffee with orange double cake this evening, but seems like Major didn't pay due attention to my words. I think their packed and tight schedule doesn't let them such freedom as coffee. Though, orange double pie...

Anyway, Major Andreeva and her crew were interested in our humble sound equipment and my desk, and also in our regular technician Alexander, which, at the sight of visitors, made a loud hiss, blended into surroundings and quickly left the studio by draining into the sewer system.

And now, the weather.

[Frank Pourcel "Manchester et Liverpool" playing in the background]

It was a tiny cupboard of a room about six paces in length. It had a poverty-stricken appearance with its dusty yellow paper peeling off the walls, and it was so low-pitched that a man of more than average height was ill at ease in it and felt every moment that he would knock his head against the ceiling.The furniture was in keeping with the room: there were three old chairs, rather rickety; a painted table in the corner on which lay a few manuscripts and books; the dust that lay thick upon them showed that they had been long untouched. A big clumsy sofa occupied almost the whole of one wall and half the floor space of the room; it was once covered with chintz, but was now in rags and served Raskolnikov as a bed. Often he went to sleep on it, as he was, without undressing, without sheets, wrapped in his old student's overcoat, with his head on one little pillow, under which he heaped up all the linen he had, clean and dirty, by way of a bolster. A little table stood in front of the sofa.It would have been difficult to sink to a lower ebb of disorder, but to Raskolnikov in his present state of mind this was positively agreeable. He had got completely away from everyone, like a tortoise in its shell, and even the sight of a servant girl who had to wait upon him and looked sometimes into his room made him writhe with nervous irritation. He was in the condition that overtakes some monomaniacs entirely concentrated upon one thing.

A message for car owners. Petrol station number two informs that since tomorrow it will be impossible to pay with deadheads, body parts, saplings and karma. Use cash and credit cards, loyalty points and your immortal soul.

Olga who's on scene tells me that the first visitors of renewed Palace of Culture just walked into the main music hall. She says that the very first step into the large wooden doors made her heart tremble with inexplicable fear of the abyss of the existence. Mayor Pavel Borovik is determined as always.Seems like not everything is ready for the festive program in the music hall. The orchestra pit is empty and has the form of the sinkhole into the primeval abyss. Splendid velvet curtain isn't as determined as the Mayor and in every way blocks artists' attempts to sneak onto the stage and thereby save themselves from something which makes ghoulish... one moment, looks like Olga gives some details... Yes, thanks, Olya. Save themselves from something which makes spine-tingling, paralysing, dreadful howl. We'll make a pause for a message from our sponsor while I'm clarifying the situation with my colleague, stay tuned.

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An important message from the municipal government.Right now the press service of the municipal government informed about Mayor's decree regarding the Nulogorsk Palace of Culture. Due to the decree, Palace of Culture is closed for indefinite term until all the small defects caused by face-lift will be eliminated. Citizens are asked not to come to the building closer than 20 meters, and to cover minors' eyes while passing by the Palace.

The press service pointed out that it isn't connected with an echo of inhuman howl coming from the nailed up windows of the Palace, ghoulish and spine-tingling. With regard to all these cases of revealed breaches, an examination will be held by an independent commission consisting of active concerned citizens, mediums, shaman and Father Evgeny of the Holy Virgin Protection church.

All the planned events are moved to Youth Activity Center and local drama theatre.

Small announcement.

Internship opportunity is opened at the Nulogorsk town radiostation! It's a chance to get invaluable experience, try yourself as a real reporter, and for sure, make a great contribution into the town's public life! We're waiting for your calls, just dial ten zeros on any telephone set or whisper into your mobile phone that you want to become our intern, and we'll immediately contact you! Good luck!

That's the end of our programme for today, but not of this day. A clear, moonlit evening is waiting for the town, and a clear, disturbing night. Don't forget to check if you still have some salt on your cill and if you turned off your kettle. And now, I say goodbye to you.

Until we meet again, Nulogorsk, until we meet again.

Proverb of the day: You are what you eat. You have to revise your vegeterianism ideas if you want to be a human.

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Rusprus Headcanons: Behaviors in a relationship and views on love, ‘cause I need the escapism right now:

     Russia:

Believes in the concept of soul mates and One True Love. (and Prussia to be that person)

Believed in Love at First Sight when he was younger, no longer does and considers it an immature view of love.

His love languages are Quality time and secondary: Gift giving.

Loves to buy his S.O flowers almost all the time.

He likes flashy over-the-top gifts and taking his S.O to fancy places to eat/on luxurious vacations, even when he can’t really afford it.

Likes the idea of marriage.

Has a quirky sense of humor that he uses to resolve conflicts in his relationship. Example: the whole romantic gift vs practical gift thing was a problem at one point, as it meant him and Prussia had different expectations.. After a serious fight (“I don’t need flowers, I need xyz, you should know that if you really care about me!”), he bought a toilet brush (probably stood in a queue for an hour, ya know, communism), put this gigantic ribbon on it and presented it to Prussia, then the GDR, as the PERFECT PRACTICAL GIFT, CHOKE ON IT and... Prussia just couldn’t be angry anymore. Also, it was pretty useful, he kinda needed it. 

Is a great kisser!

Prefers one-on-one dates like picnics, long evenings in front of a cozy fireplace, stargazing ect.

Problematic tendencies: can be too possessive, wants to know where Gil is, with whom, what is he doing?? Gets easily jealous.

     Prussia:

Does not believe in the concept of soul mates and One True Love, nor destiny in general.

Never believed in Love At First Sight.

His love languages are Quality time and secondary: Acts of service.

He’s not romantic, does not buy stereotypically romantic stuff. When he gives gifts, they are practical.

Shows love by stuff like: creating a master-calendar for him and his S.O. in which he tracks all their job appointments, workdays and schedules and plans dates that work for both of them,

          or by organizing their trip abroad from start to end: all the tickets, hotels, busses, the boring stuff, he will do it,

       also by cleaning his S.O’s house or doing some repairs as he’s a great handyman.

Pretty much when he shares his google calendar with Russia, that’s a profound romantic confession in his language.

Prefers dates when you do active stuff, like horseback riding, going to the shooting range, hiking, playing football, etc.

Hated the idea of marriage for the longest time, ‘cause he saw it as a political tool that weak nations use when they can't stand on their own.

Warmed up to it eventually and married Russia in the 90s (it wasn’t an official marriage in a court, as for nations that means becoming one political entity, think: Austria and Hungary. It was a private little ceremony on the Kaliningrad’s beach).

Is a good kisser mostly bc he learned from the best (Russia) but started of.. pretty bad tbh. Had no idea what to do with the tongue. Very confused and awkward.

Problematic tendencies: pretty much the same he has in non-romantic relationships tbh: bossy, micromanages Ivan, can be antagonistic and selfish.

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The Ultimate Russia E-visa Trick

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After completing the form, click the Send button and await confirmation it has been accepted for processing. The differences in wood type are simple to see as soon as you deal with the dolls. The form is not hard to fill.

This is still applicable if you would like to visit different cities like Moscow, Yekaterinburg and the rest of the parts of the nation. Lots of people ask me about hotels to remain in Russia. A few of the theaters and museums are known not just in Tatarstan, but in addition in the whole Russia.

Foreigners entering Russia is going to be fingerprinted. You're now set to pay a visit to Russia. At the present time, only the Kaliningrad Region is readily available for Filipino passport holders who wish to obtain a Russian evisa.

Introducing Russia E-visa

The Emergence of RUSAL The provider is a real heavyweight in the aluminium market. It's so groundbreaking due to your willingness to embrace all possibilities. As soon as you get a Russian eVisa, you're absolutely free to move within the regions specified by the terms of the eVisa, except for places where special permission is necessary.

The War Against Russia E-visa

You need to have a present-day U.S. passport with the right visa. It's also colloquially known as an exit visa. Student visas are unique in that they don't incorporate an exit visa, but instead take a distinct application for one to the suitable Russian authorities.

Get visa support documents Once you've booked accommodation, you want to make certain that you receive the suitable official documents necessary to support your visa application (visa support documents). This document is going to be a visa substitute, it is likewise needed to enter the matches together with the tickets. An e-visa doesn't extend the validity period of a normal visa.

If you've secured your own invitation you have to send us the original. Getting invitation letter from Solid Ways travel agency will let you acquire Mongolian visa easy and it's very easy. The accreditation registration isn't required to leave the nation, although the immigration card is necessary.

You can discover the on-line applications form at evisa.kdmid.ru. Naturally, you must know the vital details of this e-visa program in order for your application ends up a success. Other personal information needed to affix the product that you request.

It generates a useless URL that results in the search page instead of the proper permalink. On each page, you'll have tips on how best to fill in your information. Stick to the tips on each and every page of the application.

The name is from the many lumber mills once found in the settlement. No one could discover the cars. Russians also don't think about their meaning.

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Most of the folks coming to the city will certainly be pleased with the accommodation offered to them. Tickets are offered from venues. Travelers wishing to submit an application for the eVisa to St. Petersburg should make sure that they're ready to obey the aforementioned requirements before applying.

You only have to request the letter from the very first hotel and have them list all the cities and places you will be staying. You are going to have to offer your intended travel date to Russia, the aim of your visit, together with the hotel where you will be staying once you're there. The Kaliningrad eVisa is an internet visa that allows eligible citizens to go to Kaliningrad Oblast for a brief stay.

What You Should Do to Find Out About Russia E-visa Before You're Left Behind

A business visa needs a letter from the sponsoring company detailing the reason behind the visit. Confirms the aim of the journey with time Once you want to submit an application for the E-visa Russia, they will undergo for simple step procedure to check the applicant details. It's always advised that you've got traveler's insurance (for instance, World Nomads insurance).

Sticking to what you've written in your passport makes it simpler to remember what you wrote the previous moment. In this period many changes are likely to happen. The latest, on the flip side, is four days ahead of your trip.

Russia E-visa for Dummies

In the early hours, find more information regarding the history of Matryoshka dolls at a workshop on the way the Russian nesting dolls are made. The majority of the tourists coming to Kazan will surely be considering seeing this superb construction of the previous centuries. Ivan thought for an instant.

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Things You Won't Like About Russia Evisa and Things You Will

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Russia Evisa Ideas The sole important issue is that you include the cities in which you will be staying. If you're going to remain in Russia less than 7 working days, then you don't will need to register. If you're not applying from your house country, but instead from a country where you're residing, you should submit proof of residence in that special country for the past 90 days.

The Awful Side of Russia Evisa Lots of people ask me about hotels to remain in Russia.  Read on to learn more about the procedure and other matters you should remember so that you may book that visit to Russia, stat!  The latest, on the flip side, is four days ahead of your trip.

The Truth About Russia Evisa Applying for a visa and gathering the essential documentation can take some moment, so I suggest beginning the process about four or five weeks in advance.  Confirms the aim of the journey with time Once you want to submit an application for the E-visa Russia, they will undergo for simple step procedure to confirm the applicant details.  We are aware that visa processing can turn to be hard and time consuming.

You can locate the on-line applications form at evisa.kdmid.ru.  1 final choice is to use the expert services of a private agency, which will be responsible for carrying out the entire procedure of managing the visa.  A more convenient and quicker option, now you can simply in just two or three clicks, apply on the internet to receive your Tourist e-Visa.

The Key to Successful Russia Evisa Consequently you've got to wait, and you get nervous and get started searching for a different visa provider hoping for the very best.  If you're planning to enter Russia with a kid, you must submit another application for them.  If you're self-employed, a company director, working at home, or unemployed, you will want to submit bank statements for the past three months.

To have a visa processed you must obtain an official invitation.  There are two methods to register a visa.  You should make an application for a new small business visa.

The Honest to Goodness Truth on Russia Evisa It's the longest cable-stayed suspension bridge on earth and links mainland Vladivostok with a sparsely populated island that's set to grow into one of the nation's major tourist resorts.  At present, eVisas are obtainable for specific Russian regions.  The machine-readable zone includes two lines.

Meanwhile, you should carry on with the present visa system if you wish to go to Russia. Re-entry will take a new Myanmar eVisa.  Citizens of USA and lots of other nations do not need visas to enter Hong Kong.

The Basic Principles of Russia Evisa That You Will be Able to Learn From Starting Today That is the reason why the variety of foreign tourists in Russia is increasing annually.  Be aware that all countries are qualified for electronic Visa Russia.  Migration cards have to be carried whatsoever times while in Russia.

You're going to be arrested if you put in a restricted area, so it's imperative that you include all destinations on your visa application.   Possessing a present Russian visa also enables you to enter precisely the same areas covered by the Russian eVisa and beyond.  In the rest of the instances, you are going to have to put in an application for a normal visa.

The guideline explicitly states an e-visa doesn't extend the validity period of a normal visa.  A bank statement showing enough funds to go to Russia if you're currently unemployed.  These bank statements must demonstrate that you've got no less than 115 for each day you intend to remain in Russia.

The Honest to Goodness Truth on Russia Evisa When you make an application for a visa for Russia, you are going to have to submit several documents as a component of your application.   Prior to applying for a Kaliningrad eVisa, it'll be essential to verify that you're ready to apply.  You have to fill out another registration form.

What You Need to Know About Russia Evisa You need to have an existing U.S. passport with the right visa.   Specific nationalities are granted access to the on-line visa application systemand applicants must come from 1 of 53 listed eligible nations to be able to submit an application for the eVIsa.  The accreditation registration isn't required to leave the nation, although the immigration card is needed.

| There's a great deal of talk going on regarding the prospect of obtaining an eVisa to Russia.  If you're going to remain in Russia less than 7 working days, then you don't will need to register. If you're not applying from your house country, but instead from a country where you're residing, you should submit proof of residence in that special country for the past 90 days.

The Argument About Russia Evisa If not permitted to entry, you must return by precisely the same flight.  You ought to keep the other part by means of your passport.  In the rest of the instances, you are going to have to put in an application for a normal visa.

Here's What I Know About Russia Evisa Foreigners entering Russia is going to be fingerprinted.  It's not yet known who will have the ability to make an application for a visa to pay a visit to St. Petersburg in Russia.  This informative article will provide you with the Russia Evisa Guide for Filipinos!

It's the longest cable-stayed suspension bridge on earth and links mainland Vladivostok with a sparsely populated island that's set to grow into one of the nation's major tourist resorts.  Russia is the greatest country on the planet by area and ninth largest by the range of population.  The machine-readable zone includes two lines.

Finding the Best Russia Evisa However, there are nonetheless a few tasks you must complete.  You ought to pay special attention to such documents and submit all them as required.  Nonetheless, these requirements are subject to change at any moment.

To enter Russia you're require a visa before travel.  Unlike most countries in which you'll be deported if your visa expires, in Russia, you want to acquire an Exit Visa to have the ability to leave.  It's now much simpler to get a tourist visa to visit Russia.

When you make an application for a visa for Russia, you are going to have to submit several documents as a component of your application.   Prior to applying for a Kaliningrad eVisa, it'll be essential to verify that you're ready to apply.  You have to fill out another registration form.

Valid debit or charge card Applicants should offer valid card payment to be able to process the application form correctly.  Based on why it is you are visiting Russia you should examine the visa application process for your particular country.  A more convenient and quicker option, now you can simply in just two or three clicks, apply on the internet to receive your Tourist e-Visa.

Things You Won't Like About Russia Evisa and Things You Will You need to have an existing U.S. passport with the right visa.  So you wait around for a couple weeks and here you are your visa is about to collect.  Remember that you need to have an original passport as the visa is an adhesive document that you've got to stick within the pages of your passport.

The Bizarre Secret of Russia Evisa The guideline explicitly states an e-visa doesn't extend the validity period of a normal visa.  A bank statement showing enough funds to go to Russia if you're currently unemployed.  Be aware that the necessary documents differ from 1 country to the other.

Applicants that are looking to gain from the expedited visa application processing will want to pay a greater fee.  There are two methods to register a visa.  A conventional visa cannot be renewed by obtaining an e-visa.

Even the applicant ought to be mention the days will need to have a visit to Russia.  If you're planning a visit to Russia it may be worth waiting for the eVisa system to be rolled out.  The latest, on the flip side, is four days ahead of your trip.

Top Choices of Russia Evisa The Russian eVisa is just valid for selected categories of individuals. When a little one travels with one parent, consent of some other parent isn't required.

| If not permitted to entry, you must return by precisely the same flight.  Possessing a present Russian visa also enables you to enter precisely the same areas covered by the Russian eVisa and beyond.  The internet visa is anticipated to be active by October 1.

You should also have information from your itinerary (cities you'll visit) in addition to the name of your insurance provider and policy number when you have travelers insurance.  If you're planning to enter Russia with a kid, you must submit another application for them.  If you're self-employed, a company director, working at home, or unemployed, you will want to submit bank statements for the past three months.

You'll get a confirmation slip, which you might need to demonstrate when you leave Russia.  This visa-free exception applies only to people who join an organised tour whilst onshore.  Be aware that the necessary documents differ from 1 country to the other.

There's a great deal of talk going on regarding the prospect of obtaining an eVisa to Russia.  Foreign Citizens visiting the country are expected to buy medical insurance that's valid in the Russian Territory for the full period of stay.  If you're not applying from your house country, but instead from a country where you're residing, you should submit proof of residence in that special country for the past 90 days.

Russia Evisa Secrets Whether you are in need of a visa to go to Russia in 2019 or not, is dependent on your nationality.  If you don't need to manage a visa centre, you may apply through an agency.  Citizens of USA and lots of other nations do not need visas to enter Hong Kong.

What the In-Crowd Won't Tell You About Russia Evisa Valid debit or charge card Applicants should offer valid card payment to be able to process the application form correctly.  1 final choice is to use the expert services of a private agency, which will be responsible for carrying out the entire procedure of managing the visa. The possibility of getting an electronic visa gives us new choices.

The sort of visa invitation and Russian visa is dependent on the aim of your visit.  Specific nationalities are granted access to the on-line visa application systemand applicants must come from 1 of 53 listed eligible nations to be able to submit an application for the eVIsa.   Remember that you need to have an original passport as the visa is an adhesive document that you've got to stick within the pages of your passport.

However, there are nonetheless a few tasks you must complete.  Confirms the aim of the journey with time Once you want to submit an application for the E-visa Russia, they will undergo for simple step procedure to confirm the applicant details.  Nonetheless, these requirements are subject to change at any moment.

The debut of the Kaliningrad eVisa comes as changes start to get implemented with respect to Russia's visa system and modernizing the process for foreigners who desire to see the country.  Russia is a gorgeous country with a distinctive culture.  This informative article will provide you with the Russia Evisa Guide for Filipinos!

Lots of people ask me about hotels to remain in Russia.  If you're planning a visit to Russia it may be worth waiting for the eVisa system to be rolled out.  As stated by the Russia eVisa rules the earliest you may apply is 20 days ahead of your intended trip.

Your visa request cannot be processed should you not finish the application form online.  Once the requirements are revised, it is going to be possible to make an application for the St. Petersburg online visa by completing the on-line application form.  You have to fill out another registration form.

This is still applicable if you would like to visit different cities like Moscow, Yekaterinburg and the rest of the elements of the nation.   Russia is the greatest country on the planet by area and ninth largest by the range of population.  The machine-readable zone includes two lines.

Russia Evisa - the Conspiracy Applicants that are looking to gain from the expedited visa application processing will want to pay a greater fee.  Student visas are unique in that they don't incorporate an exit visa, but instead call for a distinct application for one to the correct Russian authorities.  You should make an application for a new small business visa.

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Definitions of Russia Evisa

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The debut of the Kaliningrad eVisa comes as changes start to get implemented with respect to Russia's visa system and modernizing the process for foreigners who want to see the nation. It's not yet known who will have the ability to submit an application for a visa to go to St. Petersburg in Russia. If you're from the USA or Canada, you will want to get a visa so as to go to Russia.

To know about the most recent visa news, it is better to inspect the government website of the Kaliningrad region. Lots of people ask me about hotels to remain in Russia. If you're considering entering Russia by road, you will have to take an alternate route through a different nation.

Most Noticeable Russia Evisa You only have to request the letter from the very first hotel and have them list all the cities and places you are going to be staying. You are going to have to give your intended travel date to Russia, the goal of your visit, together with the hotel where you will be staying once you're there. Travelers wishing to make an application for the eVisa to St. Petersburg should make sure they are ready to obey the aforementioned requirements before applying.

You should also think about checking with your transport provider or travel company to ensure your passport and other travel documents fulfill their requirements. It's always advised that you've got traveler's insurance (for instance, World Nomads). If you don't wish to cope with a visa centre, you may apply through an agency.

Russia Evisa Explained Soon, experiencing the country will be far easier than it is currently wherever you're in the world. Nearly all foreign citizens who want to enjoy a stay in the Russian Federation are expected to submit an application for a visa for Russia, although the sort of travel document required will depend on nationality, along with the purpose and length of the stay. If you're going to remain in Russia less than 7 working days, then you don't will need to register.

It's been a pleasure working with your business! If a hotel asks a massive amount or if you just need to do things more quickly without needing to call or email each individual hotel, there are plenty of businesses that may quickly supply the letter online. Also mark in case you have ever changed your place of employment before entering the present job.

The Downside Risk of Russia Evisa Most foreign passport holders want to receive a Russian visa to see the nation, even though the kind of visa for Russia required will be dependent on the duration and aim of the stay. The e-visa may not be extended. Whether you are in need of a visa to go to Russia in 2019 or not, is dependent on your nationality.

It is also simpler for travelers who want to find a visa. Travel is limited to 8 days.

The Downside Risk of Russia Evisa Valid debit or charge card Applicants should offer valid card payment as a way to process the application form correctly. The possibility of getting an electronic visa gives us new alternatives. You have to fill the shape and make the payment with a charge card.

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The Most Popular Kaliningrad Visa

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You find nearly every conceivable problem in Kaliningrad.  Migration cards have to be carried in any way times while in Russia.  Indeed, Kaliningrad is a little enclave surrounded by the EU countries, therefore it is reasonable.

Top Kaliningrad Visa Secrets Thanks to a brand-new initiative by the Russian government, it's now simpler than ever to acquire a visa to Russia we'll show you whatever you have to know.  It isn't surprising that British businesses are also leading the way in regards to creating special expatriate services.  For example, several of the worldwide expatriate medical insurance businesses and expatriate banking providers are based in the united kingdom.

Gossip, Deception and Kaliningrad Visa The very first step is obtaining a Russian business visa, which includes a lineup of particular requirements. This procedure can take a while.

In the event of getting temporary residence card, passenger may remain in Vietnam continuously for a very long time below the term of short-term residence card.  It isn't always true.

You can begin the application process here.  Therefore, it's strongly advised to submit complete application.  As soon as your application is done, you should use a valid debit or credit card to pay the last evisa processing fee and await an email notifying you regarding the status of your electronic Kalinigrad visa.

In order to submit an application for the long-term 3-year Russian visa, you still need to have an invitation.  These visa changes are going to have larger impact of foreign travellers who potentially desire to remain in Colombia permanently.  You can receive this kind of visa to Russia only if you're an American citizen.

Sport-utility and luxury vehicles have a tendency to be the absolute most sought-after.   UK passport is just one of the strongest passports with regard to travelling.  Short-term residence card is a kind of long-term visa.

Theft of vehicle parts and auto vandalism is not uncommon.  You ought to keep the other part by means of your passport.

Kaliningrad Visa Fundamentals Explained If you're traveling for tourism or whether you don't need to enter the trouble of asking your company partners or friends writing the letter that's best for you, it is still possible to receive a typical tourist invitation letter and after that use it in order to submit an application for a long-term 36-month tourist visa.  It's possible to have a boat cruise that stops over.  Unlike a normal tourist visa, you don't need an invitation letter or a hotel confirmation in order to make an application for an e-visa.

Kaliningrad Visa - Overview To acquire a tour ticket you have to order a tour program with the support of our organization and give us a photo copy of your passport.   You are able to request them to assist you with certain different documents (insurance, invitation).  Within the next step, you are going to have to provide information regarding your visit.

| How to Choose Kaliningrad Visa To put in an application for a visa, you need a Passport which ought to be valid for at least six months after visa's expiration date and has at least 2 blank pages that do not have to be consecutive. Most visitors have to go to a Russian embassy or consulate so as to put in an application for a Russian tourist visa.  You ought to make sure you have all the required visas for the length of your travel.

So you wait around for a couple weeks and here you are your visa is about to collect.  Whether you are in need of a visa to go to Russia in 2019 or not, is dependent on your nationality.  Keep in mind you have to have an original passport as the visa is an adhesive document that you've got to stick within the pages of your passport.

Theft of vehicle parts and auto vandalism is not uncommon.  You ought to keep the other part by means of your passport.

Thanks to a brand-new initiative by the Russian government, it's now simpler than ever to acquire a visa to Russia we'll show you whatever you have to know.  It isn't surprising that British businesses are also leading the way in regards to creating special expatriate services.  For example, several of the worldwide expatriate medical insurance businesses and expatriate banking providers are based in the united kingdom.

While the proportion of migrants in the whole population of developed countries continues to rise, in addition, there are a growing number of expatriates from developed countries that move abroad for professional or private factors.  If you're considering entering Russia by road, you will have to take an alternate route through a different nation. Additionally, there are restrictions based on the area you're planning to visit.

As stated by the terms of the Government of Vietnam, foreigners generally speaking and Poland passport holders particularly are only permitted to stay in Vietnam for 06 maximum continuous months.  Citizens of the countries within this group can remain in the Russian Federation for as much as 30 days without a visa.  The accreditation registration isn't required to leave the nation, although the immigration card is needed.

Where to Find Kaliningrad Visa The very first step is obtaining a Russian business visa, which includes a lineup of particular requirements. It is a rather easy and fast solution.

Before you start to submit an application for a Kaliningrad visa from the Netherlands, there are a couple of documents which are needed in order to complete the application.  Such personal contact is a really excellent thing.  The entire time necessary to acquire this type of visa is also rather long.

You can begin the application process here.  The application needs to be processed in no more than 4 days.  Lastly, choose the place where you'll be processing your visa application.