How sources are chosen.
Where an official source exists, we link to it: a consulate, a ministry, a state service, an operator's own page. For prices and everyday figures we link to the place the figure came from and name it in the text. Where the only source is one person's experience, we say so and name whose. We do not use other outlets as evidence about Russia, and we do not characterise their coverage. We link to a secondary source only when it holds a document or a dataset we cannot link to directly.
How dates are checked.
Every practical page carries a "last checked" date. That date means someone opened the official source on that day and confirmed the page still matches it. It is not the date the page was written or edited. A page that has not been re-checked says "Not yet re-checked" rather than showing a date, because a date you cannot rely on is worse than none. Visa, entry, money and registration pages are the ones we re-check most often, since they change most often.
How corrections are handled.
When a reader reports something wrong, we check it against the source and fix it. If the change is material — a rule, a figure, a requirement — we leave a short "previously said" note at the bottom of the page with the old wording and the date it changed, so a returning reader can see what moved. Small fixes to spelling or phrasing are made without a note. We do not quietly delete a page that turned out to be wrong.
Sponsored content.
There is none. This site does not take paid placements, affiliate commissions or sponsored posts, and no one pays to be mentioned, listed or recommended. If that ever changes, this section will say so before the first such piece appears, and every paid item will be labelled at the top, not in a footnote.
Editorial, official and personal.
Three kinds of text appear on this site and they are visually distinct. Editorial is what we wrote and checked; it carries a date and links out. Official is what a government or an operator says; it is quoted or linked, never paraphrased into a promise. Personal is one person's experience, kept in its own block and labelled as such. We do not give individual legal or migration advice, we never promise a trip will go smoothly, and we never present one nationality's rules as everyone's.
How comments and submissions are moderated.
Community submissions, group listings and update reports are read by one person — Vlad Lario — before anything appears. Nothing publishes automatically. Groups and hosts are marked either "verified by TwoNations" or "community-submitted", and the difference is exactly what it says: verified means we contacted the organiser and confirmed the listing. If your submission is not published, you can reply to the notice and ask why.