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the Lars is open
the status is marked as "multi-national"
for those who read russian
that's the list of all russian border crossings Просмотр документа | Росграница
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Well I for one have a cool pint waiting for any non-CIS-passport-holding HUBBer who tests this out conclusively for the rest of us!
This would surely be an incredible revelation for overland travel in Europe and Asia if it's true. I for one would go to any effort possible to avoid going through bloody Azerbaijan, and taking that damned Caspian ferry again.
Though I myself will probably not get the chance to try the potential new route for some years
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Quote:
Originally Posted by motobelka
the Lars is open
the status is marked as "multi-national"
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Hey Belka ... I strongly suspect that "multinational" also includes "CIS only" ... since CIS is more than 2 countries  Multi does not mean "any", it means more than 2. I notice this document does not have a category for "CIS only" so I suspect the pogranichniki just classify CIS-only borders as "multi-national".
I will be very happy to be wrong ... and will buy the second pint for the first non CIS traveller through there. 
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It's issued as Road and multinational, as all other international border crossing points but you never know ???
Lars
North-Ossetia - Alania
Car travelers
permanent
Multinational
Rosgranitsy begins 07.12.09 № 184
So we can be sure when somebody has cross it ????
Will be there on August and can check but it's probably to late for this summer travelers.
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Hallo,
two years ago me and two friends of mine made a full tour around the Black Sea from Bulgaria anticlockwise. We reached the port of Poti in Georgia. It was impossible to continue north because of the war. We went back to Trabzon and took a ferry to Sochi. From Sochi we drove south in Abhazia. We have visas for Abhazia as EU citizens, which you can get in Suhumi. In order to get a visa you have to send an email to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Abhasia and get an invitation. The visa costs 30 USD. You enter Abhasia with the invitation and you go out with the visa. In this sense it is a permission to exit the country. The whole journey took 26 days and everything went well.
Unfortunately I think roads between Georgia and Russia will stay closed for a long time, including Verhni Lars which was a military road and was open for refugees
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hey Walter
Cis-borders are marked as "dual-national"
i don't get the logic but still
to know for sure you'd better write them Контакты | Росграница
there'll be an official answer
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it will be nice if it is open, because I have heard its a really spectacularly beautiful road. Very steep mountains, very windy road.
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I have a good idea (that I can't follow up on). 
Why doesn't someone who speaks decent Russian or Georgian telephone the border post or ministry in charge of border control and ask the people there if they will let non-CIS people through?:confused1: That would at least solve the "argument" 
I would do it myself... But I don't speak either of those languages.
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