For Russia make a beeline for the BIGGEST city you can find on the map and stay at a BIG hotel and swallow the 3000 rouble per night fee , and they will register it for you, smaller hotels will NOT do this for you and I ended up doing it myself as well as getting a hotel registration so I'm covered on both fronts, remember its working days ! and thus if you arrive 11pm Friday you have the weekend as a breather...
In Sochi many of the hotels wouldn't let me in thinking I was a vagrant of some kind, Krasnodar doesn't have a hotel big enough , Rostov had the rostov hotel who registered me.
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