politics, society, and culture of the post-soviet space

Do you require a better understanding of the complex, fascinating and often bizarre geopolitical realities of the former USSR? Are you part of an organisation seeking to operate in a remote area of the Eastern Bloc? Do you need detailed preliminary information and trustworthy reports on the current issues concerning a specific region or city? Do you require full-time on-site assistance and a reliable team of local drivers, translators and problem-solvers? Here we are!

Thanks to our extensive cultural, political, economical and geographical knowledge of the former USSR and with the essential help of a vast network of exclusive local contacts, we are able to provide detailed and precise reports and dossiers for visiting diplomats and politicians, interest groups, cultural and economic institutions, private companies, foreign investors, and non-governmental organisations alike. 

The list of our intelligence services includes but it is not limited to:

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  • Geopolitical intelligence and business consultancy.

  • Linguistic and cultural mediation.

  • Translation, interpreting and screening.

  • Risk assessment and crisis management.

  • Emergency planning and threat response.

  • On-site logistics and support services.

  • Round-the-clock fixed-site and mobile protection.


Soviet Tours’ offers preliminary consulting, in-depth intelligence and on-site assistance for the following destinations:

  • Unrecognised Countries (Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria); 

  • Caucasus (Chechnya, Dagestan, Circassia, Ingushetia, Ossetia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia); 

  • Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Karakalpakstan); 

  • Siberia (Tuva, Altai, Yakutia, Buryatia, Khakassia); 

  • Russian Far East (Kamchatka, Birobidzhan, Chukotka, Sakhalin, Kuril Islands, Magadan); 

  • Russian North (Yamal Peninsula, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Yugra, Karelia, Komi Republic, Kola Peninsula, Norilsk, Kola, Evenkia, Northern Islands); 

  • Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Baltic States, Visegrad Countries); 

  • Balkans (Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Republika Srpska, Macedonia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Serbia);

  • Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Kurdistan, Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia);

Please contact us to learn more.