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Did anyone ever travel with Trans-Siberian railway and not reserve train tickets and hotels in advance? ...

-Russia is better than Rome/Barcelona/Paris when it comes to petty crime...

you are right that you should have a travel insurance when you travel in Russia, like all other trips abroad. You are absolutely right that...

There are plenty of Russian consulates throughout the world which require an original document....

I'm a US citizen. If I want to fly to Moscow, spend a couple of weeks in Russia, then a week or so in Tallinn and Helsinki, returning to...

you need the original visa support not copies. ...

add Veliky Novgorod...

i'm going with someone who speaks russian very well (his mother tongue). and he traveled a lot. we don't plan to travel in the mountains of...

Eddy, will we see you add some new information to a thread besides telling the global village what views you favour:)

This does not have to be purely a train trip...

Day 5 Travel to Moscow: Fast train...

It is easy to agree with Ruth that it is a very sensible security precaution to keep your belongings under you in the lower brink. It is a...

Is it also fair to say that Ukraine is much like Russia (and the Nordics) in the sense that it is a "never talk to strangers culture"? ...

Personally, it were me, I would skip Vladivostok and the days...

OP traveling from Lithuania to Belarus and from Poland to Lithuania...