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Travel in Former USSR

The UK has reciprocal healthcare agreements with the former USSR (Soviet Union) including the republics of -

Republics

  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belarus
  • Georgia
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kirgizstan
  • Moldova
  • Tajikistan
  • Turkmenistan
  • Uzbekistan and
  • Ukraine

Hot Tips and Info

Health provision is patchy - so consider more comprehensive medical health insurance

If you're travelling with a pre-existing medical condition

Treat your own Omar Shariff/Julie Christie to a trip to the land of Dr Zhivago for a romantic mini-break but do get cover

Travel in certain parts - eg Chechyna - isn't recommended - No-go Areas

Guides

The Rough Guide to the Baltic States (Rough Guide Travel Guides) - Jonathan Bousfield

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 - Aleksander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

The New Great Game: Blood and Oil in Central Asia - Lutz Kleveman Atlantic Books

The Oligarchs: Wealth and Power in the New Russia - David Hoffman

The Fate of the Romanovs ~ Greg King John Wiley & Sons Inc

Ukraine: The Bradt Travel Guide

Documents you need to get medical treatment

Your British/UK passport.

What is normally free?

Hospital treatment and some dental treatment/proceduresand most ther medical treatment.

You will however be charged for prescribed medicines.

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