Hello Julian, You can open an account at Citibank and at Raiffeisen without translating your passport. They offer dollar / euro / rouble and GBP interest bering accounts.
All you need is 30 minutes - passport, registration, and imigration card. [ If you are here under a work permit bring that as well] All their branches in the centre have english speaking staff. They will open an account and issue you a plastic card. You can have one for roubles - local transactions and when for dollars for travelling outside Russia. I have been using them since 2003. Nina 2008/2/13 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > No > > Julian Beirne > EHS Manager > TPP 26 > Moscow > > > *"James Tsohas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Phone: > 12/02/2008 19:37 > Please respond to The Moscow Expat List > > To: "The Moscow Expat List" <[email protected]> > cc: (bcc: Julian Beirne/RUMOS03/Power/ALSTOM) > Subject: Re: Expat List Interest > > > > > Julian, did this bank require you to have your passport translated into > Russian and get a Notary? > > James, > > 2008/1/24 wab3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > call Uniastrum Bank in Moscow, ask for Carolina Gasnash in the Expat > Banking Department, I have been banking with them for about 3 years and have > no problems. > > I have a hard currency account and a ruble account with Mastercard debit > card attached to the accounts, I use it in Russia, Europe, Hong Kong and on > an occasion or two used it in the US, I receive interest on the hard > currency account, don't recall the % right now, ask Carolina. > > Bill B > > 2008/1/24 Nikolaus Twickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > > > Dear list, > > word has it that some Russian banks pay interest to ruble deposits at > roughly the rate of inflation. But ING, where I bank, would only give less > than six percent p.a., which seems a pretty bad deal given an inflation > rate of more than 11 percent. Can anybody recommend a bank and give some > details about procedures and trappings? > > Thanks, Nikolaus > > > _______________________________________________ > Expat mailing list* > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[email protected]>* > **http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat*<http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat> > * > **http://www.expat.ru/forum/* <http://www.expat.ru/forum/> > _______________________________________________ > Expat mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat > http://www.expat.ru/forum/ > > > :._______________ > CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and > may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the > sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use > it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. > > > _______________________________________________ > Expat mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.lists.ru/mailman/listinfo/expat > http://www.expat.ru/forum/ > -- Nina Dolman General Director - W-TAINA Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 007 926 248 97 42 /43
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