Russian Registration
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.
Good luck.
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