We hope you had the opportunity to celebrate Christmas surrounded by your family and friends and enjoyed every single moment together! What a year 2016 has been—all around the world! We faced many new challenges in 2016, especially in regard to processing our annual Work Permit/VISA. It was a long drawn out situation this year, requiring us to wait four months to return to Russia! Mid-October we finalized the documents to return and about six weeks later we extended our VISA until September, 2017.