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Hi Daniel
In short it's often a pain to get the registration done in the east of Russia. You don't say what your route through Russia is, but it sounds like it can be easier in the western part of the country.
Near the borders I went through eg Kazakhstan and Mongolia the hotels seem to know what is needed to be done, but I think you'll see from some of the posts and threads here that many of us who have travelled through had problems away from the borders.
I was nearly always camping, so at one hotel near Novosibirsk, I had only stayed there because they assured me they would get me through the registration process and then as I was checking out I found out they hadn't. This resulted in me doing a sit-in for six hours until they got it done. I was a bit desperate as I was at the end of my three working days period of grace allowed.
At some of the police checkpoints, they will look at passports and check that you have a hotel registration slip.
I went in and out of Russia twice and it seemed that as long as I had one registration done for that visit, no-one questioned it. Some of the people here on Horizons have been fined when they've got to the border to leave and have no registration slip.

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Just go to a post office and get a private citizen to register it for you, its what I did, you need photo copies of the photo page and visa though, couple hundred roubles should do it.

I did it meself in Krasnodar.
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Actually I'm American, just work in Moscow.
Sorry I didn't know that you are expat there
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'Year' visas are in fact for 360 days only!

The 90 day in 180 condition was added to Visas from 2008. This was introduced to stop people permanantly living in Rissia who took a couple of days going elsewhere to get a new Visa.

I am advised it is not enforced if you seem to be a frequent traveller, regularly going in and out and remaining out for longer periods than a few days at a time.

That said, I exceeded the 90 days by 3 weeks on a visit last year, and had already 'used up' several weeks on earlier visits in the year. There was no mention of it at the western road border when I exited. A friend had the same circumstances and experience at a road border in the east.

What is a serious problem is overstaying the overall validity period of your Visa. ($$$$ + possibly future visa refusals). Visas cannot be extended, renewed or applied for within Russia - you have to leave, even if to come back with a new visa.

Vehicle can be left in Russia and customs permits can be extended without too much difficulty (except for battling with a dis-interested burocracy).

Ohers here have answered the Registration question.
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Say Tony remember that Finland guy on an Africa Twin, did he make it seeing as his shock didn't arrive until after I left for Mongolia and he only had 4 days to transit from Irkutsk back to Finland?
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Say Tony remember that Finland guy on an Africa Twin, did he make it seeing as his shock didn't arrive until after I left for Mongolia and he only had 4 days to transit from Irkutsk back to Finland?
Hi Kennichi
Hannes got a customs extention for his bike in Irkutsk at the same time as Colebatch. His parts came after we had left but I know he got back to Finland. I presume his visa was not a problem. It was the vehicle time limit I think he was concerned about, until it got extended.

Any news of your bike?
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Any news of your bike?
Nah, I've generally given up all hope of getting the XT back.


But I have been looking at the CBR funny maybe to Sjaak Lucassen the bike as an even more extreme alternative, imagine that a CBR600 in the middle of Yakutia. But 2011 I hope to head out to South America for the La Paz road on something with fuel injection.
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At some of the police checkpoints, they will look at passports and check that you have a hotel registration slip.
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Some of the people here on Horizons have been fined when they've got to the border to leave and have no registration slip.

Good luck.
The registration is no longer needed or checked at the borders. It can be checked by police internally though. But if you make it to the border without being checked, they no longer ask to see it at the borders.
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The registration is no longer needed or checked at the borders. It can be checked by police internally though. But if you make it to the border without being checked, they no longer ask to see it at the borders.
In my trip, I will be less than 3 days in Russia (Altay only), ¿Do you think that I must will be registered?
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In my trip, I will be less than 3 days in Russia (Altay only), ¿Do you think that I must will be registered?
Registration is not required for the day of entry or the following first three working days (ie. saturdays, sundays and holiday days do not count).

It sounds like you will not need to have registration.
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