Preparing Russian Documents for Azerbaijan

Do Russian documents require consular certification (an apostille stamp) to be able to be used in Azerbaijan?

Thanks to the Minsk Convention of January 22, 1993 (which these countries are party to), which envisages mutual document recognition without further certification (validation), no document legalization is required.

Using Russian documents in Azerbaijan requires a notarized translation be performed into Azerbaijani.

Education documents are an exception to the Minsk Convention of 1993. Certain Azerbaijani employers and educational institutions require the authenticity of Russian diplomas be validated. The universal means of achieving that validation is by having an apostille stamped on the original education document. Thus, it's always worthwhile to ask the institution that issued it what the requirements are to have one processed. They tend to turn out more diverse than one would expect.

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