As far as we know, it is not a problem at all. Nothing forbids you to use your ticket only on parts of the route and definitely nobody in Russia checks for Slovak conductor stamps.
Obviously May, it's always period before first day of validity, thus formula is "your dep.date-60 days"
@JohnMaybe, the best solution is to buy Split - Satoraljaujhely ticket, and then just walk to Slovenske Nove Mesto, and catch there train to Moscow.
Budapest-Keleti 16:00Satoraljaujhely 20:09Slovenske Nove Mesto 21:19Cierna nad Tisou 21:57 Cierna nad Tisou 22:44Chop 00:30 Chop 04:18Moskva Kievskaja 10:58 +1
Moskva Kievskaja 22:13Chop 03:00 +2Chop 04:10Cierna nad Tisou 05:16 Cierna nad Tisou 05:59Slovenske Nove Mesto 06:35Satoraljaujhely 07:47Budapest-Keleti 12:00
If the reservations are only avaliable 60 days in advance
how much would the regular ticket from Zahony to Chop cost?
The timetable to Moscow is very reasonable
Well, for domestic routes RZD sells tickets only 45 days in advance, thus it's reasonable to think that reservations can be bought as well only 45 days in advance. That is just a difference between East-West tariff timing and RZD domestic. But don't they have access to EPA in Croatia? Or maybe any agency having DB terminal or something? Since anyway East-West reservations for domestic Russian travel not necessarily need to be bought in Slovakia or Russia. Actual fare will be the same no matter whether you purchase it in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovakia etc. (it also funny that in Russia itself they will be more expensive comparing to the above places, since there you need to add VAT, if it's still the case)
Just want to remind you that East-West reservations for RZD carriages in cases of UZ-RZD routes are really expensive (comparing to UZ carriages), so it's better to count on either MAV-RZD or ZSSK-RZD (and vice verso) or avoid "Tisza" with RZD carriages.
I sent a mail to a Croatian agency that says, on its website, it is connected to the DB system...
Are you saying that I should buy reservations for any carriage except a Russian one? Or are you saying that I should buy the reservation for the train via Ukraine in Hungary or Slovakia, regardless of which carriage I end up in?
Well, after more than a month I can say that the agency hasn't responded
I forgot to ask her, are the reservation prices the same in every country or not?
Little off topic,CityStar Serbia-Russia/Russia-Serbia isn't available anymore But there is still CityStar Russia-Montenegro (probably Montenegro-Russia too). CityStar Vladivostok-Podgorica via Ukraine, Romania and Serbia costs 232 EUR.
Price is arround 35 000 RSD for 2 passengers from Beograd to Vladivostok via CFR and UZ.
Today I sent e-mail to them requiring about City Star on route Šturovo - Tumangan(Gr) and they gave me the price of 268,78 EUR via UZ...
City Star Šturovo - Ussuriisk for 2 persons, and they gave me the price of 295,92 EUR via UZ which also doesn't fit the previus...
It's even possible to guess where the mistake comes from, imho, from the issue regarding 'gr.', so if ZSSK official checked via computer (probably did), then it wouldn't show CityStar option for 'gr./fr.' points, but only East-West.
...City Star option for border points isn't available?