Cultural exchanges between Switzerland and Russia

Services and visa

All consular services and visa support for residents of the countries listed below are provided by the Regional Consular Centre Moscow. Information can be found on the websites concerned:

Russia
Uzbekistan
Belarus

Services

Contact the responsible Swiss representation or consulate when you want to register or unregister as a resident, when you need a new passport, have moved or wish to apply for citizenship. The entire selection of services offered can be found in the dropdown menu to the right. The contact details of the responsible Swiss representation are shown on the corresponding page.

Swiss citizens who get into difficulties abroad, also can ask for advice and help from the Swiss representative.

The magazine for the Swiss Abroad appears six times a year and provides information about what is happening at home and the activities of Swiss associations abroad. It also answers administrative questions.

Online desk FDFA

Using the FDFA’s online consular services while abroad.

The relevant Swiss representation abroad can answer any questions concerning the FDFA’s online desk.

Overall, we have assisted 30 Swiss artists and experts to obtain their Russian visas.

We are proud to name the following institutions as our partners of this year:

• Pobeda Cultural Center in Novosibirsk

• Moscow State Conservatory named after P.I. Tchaikovsky

• DOM KINO Cinema in Krasnoyarsk

• Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg

• Moscow State Tretyakov Gallery

• House-Museum of Alexander Herzen in Moscow

• MOSKINO Cinemas

• The “DE BONI ARTE” Charitable Foundation

• shnit Worldwide Shortfilmfestival (Moscow edition)

• Zaryadye Hall in Moscow

The highlights of the second half of the 2021 include but are not limited to:

• Film festival "Bruno Ganz Retrospective. Part 2" in Moscow

• Concert by Swiss organist Jean-Christophe Geiser at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Holy Virgin Mary

• Swiss Cultural Days in Krasnoyarsk

• Swiss Cultural Days Novosibirsk

• Project «Swiss classics: Dürrenmatt and Frisch» at MOSKINO Cinemas

• Swiss cinema program at the Short Film Festival SHNIT’21

• Exhibition «Max Frisch. Terra Incognita» in Moscow, Novosibirsk and St. Petersburg

Our plans will continue next year and above all, we are now planning Swiss cultural days in Kazan and a film festival dedicated to the theme "Sustainable City" in Moscow and Russian regions.