Visa to Russia
My wife and I are Canadian citizens living in Zambia. We are on our RTW and we have major problems obtaining the Russian visa to cross Russia in July 2014. None of the Russian embassies we talked to here in Africa want to grant us the visa because they do not deal with Canadians outside Canada. They also mentioned that the visa we need is too long as they usually grant tourist visas for a max of 2 weeks and we need it for 6 weeks to be able to cross from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. However we read of many bikers that have done that and we still have trouble finding out how they obtained their visas. I understand that it would be easier in our country, but we cannot fly from Africa to Canada for this. Can anyone help with some concrete solutions please? We wrote to Helsinki Russian embassy and they directed us to an agency in Finland that deals with this, we wrote to them but we got no reply. I know it is still far ahead, but I would be grateful if someone would be able to help us with this mystery. How do all the foreign bikers cross Russia and get their visas?
Thx
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