Originally Posted by
strake
WHBM
My wife is Russian born but now a British citizen for some years with a UK passport. She also has a Russian passport in her married name and as far as I recall, there was no difficulty in getting it.
She travels regularly to Russia with our daughter (also dual), out on Russian and back on UK.
Strake
The rules seem to change every year (sometimes more than once). Currently there is a lead time of about 3 months at an overseas consulate to do this.
The real difficulty, as you are doubtless aware, is in all the things in Russia that are tied to your Internal Passport, by name (eg property, bank accounts, legal documents) which have all got to be changed from afar. That is a huge effort just to appease the air carriers who can't understand people with two names, one in each passport, which is very common.