I wanted to post this, so maybe it wont happen to someone else.
Kaz is now part of some trade zone with Russia, and if you go thru Kaz to Ru, they should give you a temp import document for your bike when you enter Kaz from another country (this happened to me coming from Kyrg, at the Bishkek border)
Well, Kaz gave me nothing, and as I went from Kaz to Ru, the guys at the Ru border probably assumed I had it, & didnt give me one.
I'd been to Ru before, but thought maybe it was just some new system, as they put the bike license number in the computer.
BUT, without this paper, you are riding in Ru ILLEGALLY! and if stopped, they can impound your bike til its straightened out!

Once I found out I needed this paper, I went to a customs office, but they said it could only be fixed at a border. Even at the border, there is possibility for impoundment. So I'm riding 3000km across russia, being careful not to get stopped!

Anyhow, I knew someone who knew a customs bigwig, and he called to the mongolian border, & got it fixed to where I could get everything sorted.
So I went to the border, had to write a letter explaining what happened, that the Kaz idiot gave me nothing. They made copies of all my passport stamps, and let me go (luckily, no 'fines' were involved)
Then I had to leave Ru, get a MGL stamp, & re enter Ru, this time I was given the proper docs. Other than costing me a couple days time, riding to the border, & 5 hours AT the border, it worked out. But be careful! I've heard of 2 other people this has happened to also

the paper is a full white sheet, you fill it out yourself, then they put some pretty colored stamps on it, and a bar coded sticker.

Doug

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