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Old Oct 18, 2005, 1:13 am
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chalf
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Originally Posted by norodnik
2) The VISA requirements are slated to get much worse. Apparently for me to renew my 1 year multi entry visa I will need another HIV test, as well as tests for Leprosy (LMAO), Tuberculosis and a few other things. Seems the Gov't is intent on making doing biz in Russia even more difficult.
Unless yet another pronouncement has recently been made, my understanding is that this only applies to work permissions/work visas. Nothing has changed with respect to the standard multiple entry business visas (which have always formally required an HIV test, though seemingly not enforced when issued in the UK).

They did relax the requirement that such tests be conducted at state-run clinics.
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