Dr Leonid N.Solomin (St. Petersburg, Russia)

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Earlier post was meant to say Dr Barinov, typo.

Damn similar Russian names...

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I have asked him the issue on visa, and he said he really has no way to help... which is sad.

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I didn't realize getting a medical visa for Russia was so difficult. Getting one for India was initially a pain because of the company website, but I got one easy enough that gave me 6 months. Getting an additional 4 month extension just required a doctor note, blood test report, and proof of stay from the hotel.

What exactly does Russia require for medical stay?

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There is no medical visa. You need to have an official invitation. I heard from my friends who do business in Russia that now considering political situation, they especially scrutinize invitations issued for citizens of countries which have been strongly criticizing Russian political actions towards Ukraine in the past year, go figure which countries and it is not easy to get a visa for any reasonable period of time to do LL as a citizen of one of those countries. Even if you somehow get an invitation but lie about the purpose of the visa and they find out about it, you will get into big troubles like ShortyMcShort mentioned, which is definitely what you want to be dealing with when you are doing LL.

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Well ain't that a kick in the head.

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I am trying very hard to suppress my laughter .

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Whats funny? I want to laugh too...

 

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Can you guys stop polluting Dr Solomin thread with visa-related issues? Visa to Russia is nothing specific to Dr Solomin and a lot of people have already established via communication with Dr Solomin that he does not offer any assistance in the process of obtaining visa so there is no point to continue this discussion here and it just pollutes this thread with completely orthogonal matters. Please, use this thread for matters specific to Dr Solomin practice or your personal experience with him and create a separate one, if one doesn't exist already, for visa-related topics. I regularly check doctors section to look for updates about each doctor's practice and i hate when I have to waste my time filtering out tangential discussion going on in those threads. Please, let's respect each other time time and eliminate unnecessary clutter.

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Quote from: kobeml on November 06, 2014, 03:08:30 PMCan you guys stop polluting Dr Solomin thread with visa-related issues? Visa to Russia is nothing specific to Dr Solomin and a lot of people have already established via communication with Dr Solomin that he does not offer any assistance in the process of obtaining visa so there is no point to continue this discussion here and it just pollutes this thread with completely orthogonal matters. Please, use this thread for matters specific to Dr Solomin practice or your personal experience with him and create a separate one, if one doesn't exist already, for visa-related topics. I regularly check doctors section to look for updates about each doctor's practice and i hate when I have to waste my time filtering out tangential discussion going on in those threads. Please, let's respect each other time time and eliminate unnecessary clutter.

That is one hell of a first post for someone who has never been here before. Welcome to the forum.

I agree that we should leave the VISA and all the other head games out of this thread. I know there is a guy who actually went to the doctor and I would like to hear more about his experience.

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For the guy who worries about skinhead in Russia, I think it's safe to say, you're in the clear. But if you're gay, it's a whole different story, Russian hate gay more than anything. They don't even want them to drive.