Hello!

At this hour we still didn't have our passports and I think that the chance that we will get them in time is less than 10% since we have to leave in 5 hours.

So, I'm afraid i have to be realist and tell you that at this point we won't make it.
We tried everything, paid in vain, ran back and forwards between our work and the tourist office. Unfortunately Natascha tried to just suck as much money as possible from us, delaying the process. I got several written confirmations from her that everything is going to be fixed in time but as you can see it didn't...

Finally, we tried the last alternative, willing to pay 600 euro extra from our own pockets only because we didn't want to cancel. She said that she sent our passports to the embassy in Riga, but the embassy in Riga says that they never saw them...

We don't even have the slightest idea where our passports are.

I know you guys tried and somehow did your best as well. We could have indeed solved this visa problem long ago, but since we didn't have boat tickets or flights booked as late as the end of April we didn't want to risk paying 500 euro and not getting to Russia... Remember, that basically everything was cancelled in March by Aleksey.

After we will get back our passports we will hire a lawyer to sue Natascha, because she tried to trick us in many ways... not declaring VAT, breaking the agreement and so on. Hopefully we will be able to get our money back and even your money that you paid for the boat.

If you're still interested we can still do these gigs in Russia in either 2 or 3 weeks or in september.

It's up to you.

I understand your disappointment, but as said, we are disappointed as well and we lost money and a lot of time also.

Let me know if you want to re-book those gigs so I know what to write in the announcement.

Vlad