February 23, as well as March 8 and 9, are non-working days in Russia. As a result, embassies and visa centers in several European countries have changed their operating hours.
According to the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR), visa centers in Austria, Greece, Denmark, the Netherlands, Malta, Croatia, and Lithuania will be closed on February 23. Embassies and visa centers in Belgium, Iceland, Switzerland, Portugal, and Estonia will be closed on February 23 and March 8. Estonian diplomatic missions will also be closed on February 24—Estonia's Independence Day.
The Bulgarian Embassy and Visa Application Center will be closed on February 23, March 8, and March 9. Visa application centers in Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia, and Finland will also be closed on these days.
Visa application centers in the United Kingdom, Norway, and Italy will be closed only on March 8. Slovakia's visa application centers will be closed for document collection and acceptance on March 8 and 9.
The German Data Centers in Moscow, Samara, Saratov, Krasnodar, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, and Rostov-on-Don will be closed on March 8 and 9. The centers in St. Petersburg and Arkhangelsk will be closed on March 8.
The Spanish Visa Application Centre in Moscow will be closed on February 23 and March 8, while the one in St. Petersburg will only be closed on March 8. Another change to the Spanish visa application centres is that they will be closed on weekends in 2018.
On February 23, Czech visa application centers in Moscow, Voronezh, Smolensk, and Novorossiysk will be closed for document submission and collection. Czech visa application centers in Khabarovsk, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Saratov, Vladivostok, Kazan, Omsk, Perm, Samara, and Ufa will only be open for passport collection on this day. All Czech visa application centers in the regions will be closed on March 8 and 9.
Source: travel.ru