Thanks. I have had numerous Russian visas in the past, but always from the Embassy in the UK, hence my question about getting one in France. The Russian Embassy in London has outsourced all the visa work, and no one in the Embassy will answer the question, whereas the agency to whom they have outsourced is there to make money, so aren't helpful at all! And yes, I do speak Russian! Think I will just send off my docs to Paris and see what happens! They do their own visa work, as presumably fewer French citizens got o Russia than Brits....