Finnish delegation

I just have to tell about the Finnish delegation who was supposed to come here the same day as me. They were supposed to stay for some days for discussing possibilities for an exchange between their school and this university. Their flight arrived 15 minutes after mine, so my supervisor was going to pick up all of us at the same time. We were waiting and waiting for them in the arrival hall. After 40 minutes my supervisor called them. Then they still were in the passport control, since on of the them had not applied for a visa. This person had just brought the invitation. So after a while they called us and said that they had to take the next flight back to Finland... You can say that that was a short visit in Ekaterinburg :) How they had managed to get on the plane in Helsinki without visa is a mystery. Instead they sent their power point presentation by e-mail :)