Moscow

[QUOTE=Bez Bezarra]There's gold mines there, eh?[/QUOTE]You are being fastidious, no?

Gold is the only reason for Magadan to exist.

[QUOTE=Bez Bezarra]There's gold mines there, eh?

Wait a minute, are you sure they weren't drunk? Why would anyone fly from Alaska to Moscow, and then go all the way back to Magadan?
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I'm no expert on Magadan, but I believe that the only flights going into Magadan come from Moscow, Novosibirsk, and Khabarovsk. And depending on where you are coming from, connecting through Moscow maybe the ONLY alternative. Gaack!

[QUOTE=Jake993]I'm no expert on Magadan, but I believe that the only flights going into Magadan come from Moscow, Novosibirsk, and Khabarovsk. And depending on where you are coming from, connecting through Moscow maybe the ONLY alternative. Gaack![/QUOTE]

Yup, they said there used to be a flight from Anchorage to Vladivostok a long time ago, but since it was discontinued they have had to route the other way. The loooooong other way.

[QUOTE=Bez Bezarra]But you'll be much better off just choosing one city, NOT all 3.

That way, you start developing lines for mongering, through contacts who, once they learn you are generous, will spread the word and they will start working to find you as much as you can handle. By the third week, things will really be cooking. By the fourth week, you will need a very long rest.

Unless you are gonna fly to Russia from the US west coast, it makes little sense to go all the way to Vladivostok. Unless maybe if you had 3 months to wander around ....., but then, you'll need a visa listing every destination, and plenty of police registrations, which might attract some attention.

Again, probably better off to choose one city for a month.[/QUOTE]Thank you Bez for your reply.

Will it be prudent to check out these 3 small cities rather than Moscow?

Will you advise me against renting a car with a GPS in either Moscow or these cities.

A hotel or a restaurant in these 3 small cities?

Will a excellent electronic translator suffice for surviving for a month?

I forgot! In my travel in Moscow, I met the perfect taxi driver, Russian/English translator, fast service, nice car, cheap enough. I can give his contact information by private message.

This has been translated from Russian by a electronic translator for the English speaking mongers.

[quote]Among the Russian large businessmen there is one popular joke. One of them speaks to another: "I have bad messages, I have lost 5 billion dollars". The second answers: "And I have lost 7 billion dollars. But I have a news better: prostitutes have reduced the price to 100 dollars". This dialogue can seem a typical example of the Russian understanding of an economic crisis. Today paid sex and prostitutes make the most part of a notorious night life of Moscow, and prostitutes say that they reduce the prices to keep afloat. But prostitutes add that in crisis there was a new kind of the client, which pays money not for sex and to receive encouragement. the Prostitute Adriane hardly is more than 30 years, and it accepts clients in the apartment in which she lives together with the 18-year-old son. By words prostitutes , its role is more often reduced playing a role of the psychologist to which clients can be cried in a vest. "They complain of the life, and many now come to me not for sex", - the prostitute speaks . She recollects a recent episode with the client to whom recently have reduced the salary to third, to 40 thousand roubles a month: "It has stopped in three seconds (after the sex beginning), and has suddenly suggested to drink and chat". "The sexual inclination strongly depends on financial well-being, - tells Trejsi the Coke, the known British writer and the expert on sex. - many men define the role by means of the work and the level of incomes. Certainly, financial difficulties negatively influence ours либидо. Nervous overloads play large role in its loss. And at times prostitutes receive money simply that it became for the client the interlocutor". Many Moscow prostitutes agree that clients became less. "Now they often talk about work. They are afraid to lose work", - tells Olja, which hardly more than twenty. On one of sites on advertising of sex services prostitutes where men can search for services prostitutes in the area, to it suggest to get rid of stress by means of heart-felt conversation. "When the share price falls, what the conversation with one of our girls can be better for rest, than?", - such rhetorical question is set by owners of a site to the visitors. Prostitutes are compelled to reduce the quotations in conditions when unemployment in the country has reached record for the past 8 years of level, and the salary everywhere is reduced. The price for paid sex prostitutes in Moscow varies, but many prostitutes say that it is possible to live comfortably, earning at least 2 thousand dollars a month and serving some men within night. 26-year-old Marina who offers the sexual services by means of an own Internet site, informs that the whole night with it will manage all in 6 thousand roubles that on 30 % is cheaper, than before crisis. Адриана says that has reduced the prices from 2 thousand to 500 roubles in an hour, the same price have established prostitutes from highways. «Clients who came to me on three times a week, have suddenly disappeared», - the woman complains, adding that such reduction of number of clients is observed for the first time for the past ten years of its work in this role. Despite decline in business, she hopes to remain in a role prostitutes for five years then plans to leave for Bulgaria where it is going to get the real estate.[/quote]

[QUOTE=Captain]Thank you Bez for your reply.

Will it be prudent to check out these 3 small cities rather than Moscow? Will you advise me against renting a car with a GPS in either Moscow or these cities. A hotel or a restaurant in these 3 small cities? Will a excellent electronic translator suffice for surviving for a month?

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From your questions, its clearly evident that you have some malfunction, so your thanks is unnecessary and obsequious.

In that light, yes, you should DEFINITELY rent a cheap Lada car in Moscow with a GPS and electronic translator, and head off immediately to Vladivostok.

That should suffice nicely for a month's survival.

As far as the other "small cities" you refer to, yes you should prudently go to all of them, and stay in the Tsentralny Hotel, which has an excellent restaurant that should be to your satisfaction for the sophisticated level of impeccable taste which you so richly await and anticipate.

[QUOTE=Bez Bezarra]From your questions, its clearly evident that you have some malfunction, so your thanks is unnecessary and obsequious.

In that light, yes, you should DEFINITELY rent a cheap Lada car in Moscow with a GPS and electronic translator, and head off immediately to Vladivostok.

That should suffice nicely for a month's survival.

As far as the other "small cities" you refer to, yes you should prudently go to all of them, and stay in the Tsentral Hotel, which has an excellent restaurant that should be to your satisfaction for the sophisticated level of impeccable taste which you so richly await and anticipate.[/QUOTE]Ha ! ha ! You are funny.

Good sense of humour, dude.

[QUOTE]Nervous overloads play large role in its loss.

informs that the whole night with it will manage all in 6 thousand roubles that on 30 % is cheaper,

its role is more often reduced playing a role of the psychologist to which clients can be cried in a vest.

simply that it became for the client the interlocutor"

what the conversation with one of our girls can be better for rest, than?"[/QUOTE]It just goes to show... the only thing more unintelligible than the Russian language is a computerized translation of the Russian language



[QUOTE]"It has stopped in three seconds (after the sex beginning), and has suddenly suggested to drink and chat"

"They complain of the life, and many now come to me not for sex", - the prostitute speaks .

But prostitutes add that in crisis there was a new kind of the client, which pays money not for sex and to receive encouragement.

to it suggest to get rid of stress by means of heart-felt conversation.[/QUOTE]Is this article speaking about American men, or Russian?

Strav the article is about russian men definitelly.

Do you know any western man who would come to Moscow and pay a prostitute jsut to talk with her?

This can be done back home also.

Translation is hilarious. I like the part "Prostitute Adriane hardly is more than 30 years, and it accepts clients in the apartment in which she lives together with the 18-year-old son".

She got a son when she was 12? Or the son should approve clients first.

About loosing money it's joke about Prohorov who admited he lost 6 billion Euros (so more in US$) in three days.

Many lost money so number of millioners in Russia is 38% smaller than one year ago.

But in UK it is even worse (or better depending how you look at it) number of millioners decreased 57% since last year. Which should mean the pros are cheaper than in Russia he he.

[QUOTE=Kurenda]Rostov-on-Don,

This is great place for adventurous monger. Not many people will go there what ever is the reason.[/QUOTE]but when have you been there the last time?

After rading your report, I tried to study the situation, and to take some contact by net.

But a girl told me that many italians already go there.

[QUOTE=Kurenda]Strav the article is about russian men definitelly.[/QUOTE]I know. I was making a little joke.

American men are always trying to get "in touch" with their emotions, it's part of the tyranny of American women here in the U.S.

I was surprised to read that apparently this trend is also creeping into Russian society as well.

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American men are always trying to get "in touch" with their emotions, [/QUOTE] Is that sort of like getting in touch with your feminine side? To quote Jerry Seinfeld, "Feminine side? I don't have a feminine side. If I did have a feminine side I'd be touching it all the time!!!!"

Precisely! Apparently the krizis is producing a kinder, gentler variant of the Russian oligarch. LOL!

[QUOTE=Assimil]but when have you been there the last time?

After rading your report, I tried to study the situation, and to take some contact by net.

But a girl told me that many italians already go there.[/QUOTE]I was in Rostov-on-Don last summer when I stayed for 3 weeks and also this year in February for a week.

Only foreigners I met where few backpackers.

"Many Italians already go there" what is many?

The girl is playing her game telling you that many Italians already come because probably you're Italian and she plays hard to get telling you there's competition.

Don't worry Rostov-on-Don is not Chisinau.