Please allow me to hope that in the era of modern informational technologies our attempt to provide you with such a useful source of information as a web-site will be positevely regarded and your work with our site will be pleasant to you.

Our site provides updated news in the field of the Russian internal and foreign affairs linking you to official web-sources of the President of the Russian Federation, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, other official bodies in Russia as well as to Russian organizations and informational agencies.

We offer to your attention an information about our Consulate, documentation on consular functions, samples of necessary documents. I hope that this consular information will help you to properly fill in the forms, to recieve answers to many of your questions, and to save your time.

From our side we will try to post on our site the most updated and full information, useful publications and interesting facts.

I hope our communication will be regular and helpful for you and will contribute to further development of good neighbourliness and mutually fruitful relations between sister-cities of Saint-Petersburg and Antwerp, the Leningrad Region and the Province of Antwerp, friendly peoples of Russia and Belgium.

Evgeny Baranovskiy

Consul General of the
Russian Federation in
Antwerp (Belgium)