Jul 282010
I just received my Russian entry visa.
Despite a slight clerical error involving my name (why the Russian embassy didn’t know how to spell my name in Russian is a bit beyond me), I am cleared for travel to Russia. After 31 years, I am allowed to return. It’s feeling very real now.
Strangely enough, my father doesn’t need a Russian visa because he can travel on his Israeli passport — Russia and Israel recently established a no-visa policy between the two countries.