Embassy of Namibia in Moscow, the Russian Federation:
2 Kazatchy str., 7.
Phone: 230-32-75
Fax: 230-22-74
Embassy of Nepal in Moscow, the Russian Federation:
2 Neopalimovsky str., 14/7.
Phone: 244-02-15, 241-69-43
Telex: 413292
Fax: 244-00-00
Embassy of
Netherlands in Moscow, the Russian Federation:
Kalashny pereulok 6
125009 Moscow
Russia
Phone: +7 095 7972900
Fax: +7 095 7972904
E-mail: mos@minbuza.nl
Website Royal
Netherlands Embassy in Moscow
Visa information: +7 095 7972979 (only from 14-16:30 hours)
Visa appointments: +7 095 7972986 (only from 9:30 -12 hours)
Opening hours of the Embassy
9:00 - 13:00; 13:30 - 17:30 on working days
Visa Section: 9 a.m. - 12.a.m.
Consulate General
of the Kingdom of The Netherlands in Saint Petersburg
:
Moika Embankment 11
191186 Saint Petersburg
Russia
Phone: +7 812 3340200
Fax: +7 812 3340225
E-mail: pet@minbuza.nl
Website www.nlcg.spb.ru
Embassy
of New Zealand in Moscow, the Russian Federation:
44 Ulitsa Povarskaya, Moscow
Telephone (7095) 956-35-79
Facsimile: (7095) 956-35-83
Visa office: 956-26-42
email: nzembmos@umail.ru
Working hours are from 9.00 a.m. to 12.30 a.m., 1.30 p.m. to 5.30
p.m. Monday to Friday
Website New
Zealand Embassy in Moscow
New Zealand Consulate in Vladivostok, the Russian
Federation:
48 Stanukovicha Str.
Korpus 2, Cottage 10
Vladivostok 690950
Russia
Telephone. (+7 4232) 512365
Facsimile: (+7 4232) 496 513
Embassy of Nicaragua in Moscow, the Russian Federation:
Mosfilmovskaya str., 50, building 1.
Phone: 938-27-01
Secretary: 147-11-60, 938-20-82
Trade office: 143-06-31
Embassy
of Nigeria in Moscow, the Russian Federation
:
Malaya Nikitskaya str., 13.
Phone: 290-37-83, 290-37-85
Fax: 956-28-25
Telex: 413489
e-mail: nigeriamosco@glasnet.ru
Website Embassy
of Nigeria in Moscow
Embassy of Norway in Moscow, the Russian Federation:
Povarskaya str., 7.
Phone: 956-20-05
Visa office: 203-22-70
Fax: 956-26-47, 956-24-83
Russia - Background
Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able
to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries)
and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities.
In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynasty continued this
policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I
(ruled 1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the
country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century,
more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia. Repeated
devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread
rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow
in 1917 of the imperial household. The Communists under Vladimir
LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule
of Josef STALIN (1928-53) strengthened Russian dominance of the
Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. The Soviet
economy and society stagnated in the following decades until General
Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness)
and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize Communism,
but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December
1991 splintered the USSR into 15 independent republics. Since then,
Russia has struggled in its efforts to build a democratic political
system and market economy to replace the strict social, political,
and economic controls of the Communist period. While some progress
has been made on the economic front, recent years have seen a recentralization
of power under Vladimir PUTIN and an erosion in nascent democratic
institutions. A determined guerrilla conflict still plagues Russia
in Chechnya.
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