Editorial Policy
What we publish, who is answerable for it, and the lines we do not cross. Every rule below is one you can check by opening any article on this site — if a page contradicts this policy, the page is wrong and we want to hear about it.
- Document bureau in Krasnodar since 2001
This is a working document, not a statement of intent. It describes what actually happens when a guide is published here, which means it is short — we would rather describe three real practices than ten aspirational ones.
Who writes here, and who is accountable
Guides are produced by the bureau’s own document team and published under a named author, who is accountable for what they say. The author’s name appears under the headline of every article he is responsible for and links to a full profile: real name, real role, what he actually does for a living, and the working name he uses in the other language. Articles nobody has taken responsibility for carry no byline at all, rather than a generic one.
Nobody on this team is a lawyer, an attorney or a notary, and the site never describes them as such. We are practitioners in translation, notarisation and legalisation — which makes us accurate about procedure and unqualified to give legal advice. Those are different things, and we keep them apart.
What an article rests on
Where an article states a rule, it lists the instruments it was checked against — the specific law, regulation, convention or official portal — with the date of the check, printed under the text. Some entries link out and some do not: naming a statute the reader can look up is honest, while a plausible-looking link to a page nobody opened is not. We would rather publish a citation without a URL than a URL we have not verified.
Prices and turnaround times quoted in an article are the ones this bureau charges and works to. They are corrected when they change, not left to age.
Legal review
We draw a line between describing a procedure and drawing a legal conclusion. “The Ministry of Justice attaches the apostille after a notary has certified the signature” is procedure: we handle those cases daily and can state them from experience. “This marriage will be recognised in your country” is a legal conclusion, and it is not ours to make.
For selected material where that line matters, we engage a lawyer under agreement to review the text before publication. This is not blanket coverage and we will not pretend otherwise: most articles here describe procedure and need no legal review, and articles that have had one say so, naming the reviewer and the date. An article with no review line has not been reviewed by a lawyer — that is what the absence means, and it is why we never print a badge instead.
What we will not do
We do not invent credentials, certifications, awards or professional memberships for anyone on this site, and none of the structured data behind these pages claims any. We do not present a company page as a personal profile. We do not say a text was “legally reviewed” when what happened was an editorial check. We do not describe our own material as a substitute for a lawyer, a notary or the authority that will receive your documents.
We also do not quietly rewrite history. When something published here turns out to be wrong, it is corrected and the correction is logged with a date, in public.
The rest of this in detail
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How we check information
The step-by-step version: where the facts come from, what gets verified before publication, and what we ask readers to confirm themselves.
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Corrections and updates
Every correction made to a published article, with the date and what changed.
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Authors and experts
Who writes here, with real roles and public profiles.
The material on this site is provided for general informational purposes and is based on practical experience with translations and document formalities. It does not constitute legal advice. Laws and institutional requirements may change, so current conditions should be confirmed with the relevant authority, notary, consulate or qualified legal professional before submitting documents.
Found something wrong?
If an article no longer matches what an office asked you for, tell us. Corrections come from readers more often than from anywhere else, and every one of them ends up on the corrections page.
