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Blaked, I have the same questions as Bez. Please enlighten us. It'd be nearly impossible for a non-Russian, non-Russian speaker without contacts to venture to Saratov and Yaroslav. Please tell us...

Am I reading this right?
Believe it or not, you're at a very enviable position. Lots of men would love to switch place with you. You're a Frenchman teaching French in an university in Russia where...

Russians are very real and emotional which can sometimes seem rude and abrupt. Americans and British are more fake. Germans and Scandinavians are more direct, which from American standpoint can...

Bez, Doc, thanks as always. Sleuth Street, love your posts in Ukraine section, keep them coming. Now I just have to find me a good cabbie :-)

Although I can't really speak Russian, I happen to...

Hi IT, if you ask a taxi driver for girls and you don't speak Russian, would he and the "mama" rip you off together and split the profits? I'm assuming the cab driver can speak a little English and...

Anybody been to Omsk? I looked it up and it's not too far for kazakhstan and China, by Russian geographical standard. And it's extremely cold in the winter. As usual, most of my info comes from...

Bez, thanks, love the diagram! I see you have pretty good artistic talents :-)

I've been to Moscow a couple times already so I'm now trying to extend my adventures into the province. Since I have...

Bez, did you mean Nizhny Novgorod isn't a great place to monger? Why is that? Curious mind wants to know.

I stopped by Cherepovets for only a couple hours by chance last winter. Based on my limited experience, it's not a fun city, not much going on. Lots of slush, it was dirty, lots of ugly Russian...

Hi Himself, I was also in VVO last summer.
I stayed at a basic room(single) at Versaille, there was no internet at my room. I had to use it in the business center. Perhaps there is internet in...

While VVO is not as expensive as Moscow, it is one of the most expensive cities in Russia. I was told by a local girl that living expenses are higher in VVO than Spb.

If you're traveling on your...

My travel agent told me that Irkutsk is full of German tourists (retirees with tour groups, not sex tourists like us) in the summer because they want to see lake Baikal. However, Irkutsk is very very...