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[Cool]

I've never been to Europe period

[CA Traveler]

Assuming that you are not purple... green... or perhaps... blue... you'll have no problems in the center of Moscow. Of course, it is a big city and things happen occasionally to every race.

At the same time, I must say that I've heard of many more problems with skinheads and racism in Spb than in Moscow. Of course, as in any country, racists do exist. If you stay in the major clubs for mongering you will have no problems. CF is loaded with many people of different races and cultures from all over the world. I've never seen anything that was close to a racial incident there. I've also seen many men in NF from all over the world with no problems. There are many clubs that cater to Latin music and many girls go just to meet men of color.

I took a client, who happened to be African-American, to a RU club several nights in a row. Most nights he was the only one of his race in the club. On several occasions, the girls were practically fighting over him, offering themselves and their friends either with his girl friend or without.

Other than this, the only insight that I can provide is that many of my clients are of all races and I've never heard of a problem. Of course, one problem trumps a thousand good experiences...

[Teek Kari]

No problem cool!

There are lots of non-white guys in Russia. Check the guy in Magrib in St. Pete!

http://magrib.a-alliance.ru/

[Chekist]

Cool,

By non-white, what exactly do you mean? Black, Asian or what? Have you ever been to any Eastern European country before? I'm asking because it could mean a big difference.

[Cool]

Would you guys recommend a non-white person checking out russia. What would it be like?

[Nauskas]

CNBC will be airing a business special from Russia all week.

Today they are showing an item from Moscow

For those who can view , it appears it will be an interesting look. Possibly some outakes will be on other NBC affiliates.

[Hedonist]

Anything is possible in Russian trains if you are willing to bribe the conductor. I was going from Moscow to Peter. I asked a devushka I met in Karma Bar to enjoy the charms of Peter together and she gladly accepted my offer. But we couldn't get a ticket for her as they were all sold out. I called a Russian friend of mine to see if there is anything we can do. Following his recommendation we talked to the conductor and he somehow managed to find a private compartment for the two of us. He only asked for 900 rubles for her ticket Good deal. As you can guess we didn't sleep much during that trip

[Stravinsky]

Doc,

I second your recommendation of the train between SPB and Mockba, for all of the reasons that you mentioned.

I'm not sure it's true that you would be losing mongering time on the night train. I travelled on the "skora po-ezd" once, between SPB and Mockba. The night train doesn't leave until after midnight, and as you said, you can arrive at the vokzal right at departure, which leaves you most of the evening in SPB.

As for getting lucky on the train, why not bring a dyev with you? The dyev that I was with in SPB decided that she wanted to travel to Mockba with me. Unfortunately, at that time, international tourists were still strictly controlled by Intourist, and I believe that "narodni" passengers were not even allowed in 1st class, so she had to travel in steerage. Just as an interesting note, my 1st class fare was $100 USD, hers was $2.00.

Today, I imagine those restrictions have been lifted. The 1st class sleeper cars are designed for 2 people with 2 double beds in each compartment. A couple bottles of champagne, a tin of ikra, some bootyerbroti, a handful of condoms and you should arrive bright and early in Mockba, ready for a good night's sleep. ;-)

Shyestliva,

Stravinsky

[Doctor_Skank]

Train travel between Moscow and St.Pete and vice-versa:

For those of you travelling to and from St.Pete you may want to consider taking the train.

The trip isn't particularly interesting nor is the train particularly comfortable, however there are a few advantages:

Cost:

Depending on your booking class and the train, you should pay between $30-50 one way. It is suggested to book first class so that you receive at least some form of comfort. This is cheaper than flying, however the real savings occurs in taxi costs, as when taking the train you arrive in the center of Moscow or St.Pete and you shouldn't pay more than 100-150 rubles to reach almost any location in either city. As we all know, taxi costs to and from the Moscow and St.Pete airports are considerably more expensive.... at least $30 one way from either airport. There are cheaper options like the route taxi, bus etc., but if you have more than one piece of small luggage these are impractical.

Time:

You more or less break even on time since the train takes between 4-5.5 hours depending on which one you take and you can show up just before it leaves, rather than an hour or two earlier as with the plane. Obviously you don't have to wait for luggage either, and the trains stations are centrally located, whereas the airports are 30-40 minutes out of town.

Night trains:

I haven't tried this, but there are night trains every night to and from St.Pete and Moscow that leave at about midnight and arrive around 8 in the other city. Saves a night's lodging, but is also a night of mongering less. You may get lucky on the train. But that is a big maybe. As far as I know, the trains don't slow for tochkas...

I'll most likely continue to fly since it is usually a business expense for me, but for private trips or something different, the train isn't bad. Ain't great. But ain't bad either.

[CA Traveler]

Beware of logging on to PayPal from Russia, and probably other EE countries... PP will shut down access to your account until you can log on from an "acceptable" country and verify that you are who you say you are. PP totally shut down my credit card option until I could get to the USA to verify that I was a real person. I finally dumped them because of all of the hassle of dealing with them from RU.

[Bun Biter]

Very off topic:

http://www.moscowhelp.org/

This is a site that collects donations to help victims of terrorist attack. They can accept donations via PayPal and credit cards. Their last action was to collect funds for victims of Dubrovka theater terrorist attack in 2002 (they collected about 32000 USD). They always list both people who sent donations and who personally received the money.

Peace.

Bunbiter

[Shostakovich]

Online Translation

Since many people are not able to use Russian escort pages, because of there strict Russian language only policy, here one link to a reasonable working online translation service.

Shos

[Doctor_Skank]

Somebody asked about getting a haircut in Moscow.... here is an English speaking place...

www.expatsalon.ru

Unfortunately they don't seem to offer any other more interesting services.

[Pete33]

buddies,

just in case, you need to curse in russian ...........
obviously i cannot write out the russian characters for these, sorry about that.

01. baltattsya kak govno v prorubi = to be flighty or indecisive (?) (lit. to bob like shit in a hole in the ice).
02. blednoye chudo = flaming asshole(lit. "pale wonder" - may not be valid)
03. dermo [der-mo] = shit
04. govno [guv-no] = shit
05. poshol na khui [puh-shawl nah-khooy] = fuck off (lit. go onto a dick)
06. poshol v zhopu [puh-shawl vzho-poo] = fuck off (lit. go into an asshole)
07. tebya ne ebut, ti ne podmakhivai = mind your own fucking business (lit. you're not being fucked, so don't wiggle your ass)
08. yob tvoyu mat = fuck your mother
09. sooka = *****
10. bivneetca = show showing off asshole
11. peesa = polite penis
12. per-ee-staan haameetca = stop bitching
13. paashol v'chorte = go to hell
14. kooshi govno ee oomree = eat shit and die
15. ya eemay-you o-chen balshoy jol-ty hoy = i have a big yellow dick (i forgot how to say purple)
16. tva-ya mama sa-seet kor-rov-on-ni-ye hoy-ee = you mother sucks cow dicks.


ciao

[Member #2190]

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