To make your documents legally valid abroad, a special procedure is required — legalisation. This involves having a document translated, certified at a notary, and registered with the Justice Ministry. The legalisation process also includes registering the document with the Consular Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry and with the embassy of the country in which the documents are being submitted.

Please note that in countries that are States parties to the Hague Convention a simplified form of legalisation is accepted: the issuance of an Apostille (see the section Issuance of an Apostille).

You’re opening an office in a foreign country and have to submit a set of your constituent documents to the registration authorities of that country? Or you want to open an account in a foreign bank and need to submit a set of your documents to that bank? If you want your documents to be legally valid in a foreign country — call us, and we’ll be happy to advise you how best to go about this and quote you a price for your order.