Never a truer word spoken....
[QUOTE=Doctor_Skank] A local boy might get away with going cheap on his girlfriend a few times if they are both students for example, however a foreigner in Moscow is naturally assumed to be successful and somewhat monied... as most are. Anything less confuses them in a decidedly negative way.[/QUOTE]
You can say that again. And it's slippery slope too. If you get latched up with a Muscovite girl of good breeding and show her a 1st class time on date #1, things are certainly not going to go on the cheap from there. If these girls are going out with a "pretender" and not a "contender", they will want to find out quickly and drop you before there's any collateral damage.