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In the interests of fairness (and far be it for me to ask to pause the implicit BA-bashing for just a second), this is not BA’s doing, but rather the Russian authorities and their immigration rules. Funnily enough countries don’t set immigration law based on the needs of TP-runners.

There’s no issue doing this from a third country (in both directions of course), and there’s plenty of people on this board who do have Russian visas, so it is still worth pointing out for their benefit.