Embassy of Uganda in Moscow, the Russian Federation:
Mamonovsky str., 5.
Phone: 251-00-60, 251-00-61, 251-00-62, 299-83-97, 299-30-93
Telex: 413473 UGEMB SU
Fax: 200-42-00
Embassy of Ukraine in Moscow, the Russian Federation:
Stanislavskogo str., 18.
Phone: 229-35-42
Fax: 924-84-69
Consular office: 229-19-88
Fax: 924-68-62
Embassy of United Arab Emirates in Moscow, the
Russian Federation:
Ulofa Palme str., 4.
Phone: 147-62-86, 147-00-66, 143-64-13, 143-64-14
Military Attache: 241-91-44, 241-63-12
Embassy of United Kingdom in Moscow, the Russian
Federation:
121099 Moscow
10 Smolenskaya Naberezhnaya
Tel: 00 7 095 956 7200
Fax: 00 7 095 956 7201
Opening hours:
MONDAY TO FRIDAY: 0900-1700
The
British Consulate-General in St Petersburg, Russia:
191124 St Petersburg
Pl. Proletarskoy Diktatury, 5
Tel: 007 812 320 3200
Fax: 007 812 320 3211
E-mail: bcgspb@peterlink.ru
Opening hours:
Monday to Friday - 0900-1700
The
British Consulate General in Ekaterinburg, Russia:
Address:
15a Gogolya St.
Ekaterinburg 620075
Russia
Tel: 007 343 379 4931(general enquiries)
Tel: 007 343 355 9201(visa enquiries – only after 13:30)
Fax: 007 343 359 2901 (general)
Fax: 007 343 379 4935 (visa)
This Consulate is not very accessible.
If you need any special arrangements please call:
from the UK - 007 9122314991
locally - 89122314991
Working hours:
Monday - Friday: 09:00 – 17:00
Embassy of United States of America in Moscow,
the Russian Federation:
Novinsky str., 19/23.
Phone: 252-24-51, 252-24-52, 252-24-53, 252-24-54, 252-24-55,
252-24-56, 252-24-57, 252-24-58, 252-24-59
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Embassy of Uruguay in Moscow, the Russian Federation:
Lomonosovky str., 38.
Phone: 143-04-01, 143-04-04
Fax: 938-20-45, 143-04-04
e-mail: ururus@glasnet.ru
Embassy of Uzbekistan in Moscow, the Russian Federation:
Pogoresky str., 12.
Phone: 230-00-76
Fax: 238-89-18
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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