Moscow

PS: Merriam Webster entry, for Gentleman Travel:

Main Entry: ****
[...]
1 chiefly British : a slovenly woman
2 a : a promiscuous woman; especially : PROSTITUTE b : a saucy girl : MINX

Main Entry: minx
[...]
1 : a pert girl
2 : a wanton woman

Not quoting the OED, or I'll get more stick ;)

Hi there!

I would like to know what is the rate now in Moscow for girls. Except at NF of course... But I remember some years ago (...) it was around 100 USD for the nght with a girl you pick up at Chesterfield. There were all friendly and it was very good fun. What is a reasonable rate today and which places are the best?

Thanks

Dear friends,

Just small words about my last week stay in Moscow. I was in Hotel Arlionak ( together with club 911 and big casino). Club 911 is a normal strip show with possibility to use privat rooms but really expensive. Around the Casino it is planty of girls for 150 EUR offcial rate.

Also I visited D and Martin Board House, which I strongly recomind 150-200 EUR maybe less if you stay later and some of the girls for sure are the same quality as NF. From personal point of view those are the places that I like the most. You have lots of girls but you can see them and choose which one you like instead of escort system.

Any place of this kind anybody know is wellcome.

Doug the king of CF has a special offer in his new joint “Doug’s Steakhouse”.


For the lukcy ones who are in Moscow...

Has anybody visited Hungry Duck ?. Please let me know what kind of bar is. Is it CF style? What kind of people (specially girls) I can find. Is it safe?

Thank you in advance,

I have been getting a lot of email lately wondering where I am and where I’ve been, so I’m going to share some info with all of my ISG friends and clients from the past decade!

As many of you know, after a long stint commuting from California to Moscow, I sold Moscow Star Properties and after returning to California went through a divorce which ultimately allowed me to return to Moscow. Shortly thereafter I moved to Odessa to live and eventually open up another apartment rental business with a fellow hobbyist, Anton. To make a long story a little shorter, a few months ago, my ex- and I reconciled and I returned to California. During that time, Anton continued to operate OES.

Over the past few weeks, we made the decision to sell the operation, The Odessa Group and Odessa Executive Suites to the property owner in Odessa. Anton will continue to live in Odessa with several other successful biz ventures in the works. As usual, I am going to continue to enjoy life.

Both Anton and I would like all here to understand that we are no longer associated with The Odessa Group or Odessa Executive Suites.

More importantly, with this change in my life, I’ve decided to try to keep a little lower profile with my hobby activity than in the past.

With that in mind, although I will still be in the hunt, I will probably not be posting on my adventures in the future. However, I would like to thank the hundreds of fellow hobbyists who over the past thirteen years have shared a beer and have become clients, wingmen, and good friends.

Through the years, it’s been a great run and WSG/ISG has been a terrific guide and has saved me tons of money and time when I planned to visit a new venue.

I wish all of my friends the best… Stay safe!

Well, all the best to you too, CA_T. I regret we never managed to be in Moscow at the same time and have a beer, but I benefited a lot from your posts when I went there. I advise newbies to do a search for your posts if they plan to go to Moscow one of these days.

Thanks again for that, and good luck.

Jim

CAT...enjoy and good luck, your reports, insights and enthusiasm were always greatly appreciated..........live long and prosper!

Hats off to you Ca_T and wish you the very best of luck in all that you endeavor!

WSG/ISG owes you a lot, as do I!

Thanks for all the great times and advice over the years!

CT,

Thanks a lot for your contributions throughout the years, I have learned a lot from you - and I know you have had a lot of fun! You will be missed, but I wish you luck! Hope we in some way now and then can stay in touch!

CAT,

Sorry to see you leave. Your posts were one of the foundations of the Moscow board and were an invaluable source of info for us all. It won't be the same without you.

Best of luck to you, wherever life takes you.

Желаю вам успех, здоровье и счастье.

Stravinsky

For your unselfish sharing and advice on all things Mother Russia as well as many very entertaining posts. The essence of this Forum.

Trust that your new avenues turn out to be just as you wish them to be.

As for keeping a lower profile as you put it, there isn't harm in checking in to ISG now and again to see how things are going is there? :-)))

If you see some of us going off the rails in some way, feel free to nudge us back on track.

Enjoy.

Times Online January 11, 2007


From Charles Bremner, of The Times, and Marie Tourres in Paris
Read Charles Bremner's weblog

A Russian billionaire was being held by French police tonight on suspicion of procuring prostitutes for his wealthy friends.

Mikhail Prokhorov, who has been dubbed Russia’s most eligible bachelor, was arrested for flying young women from Moscow into the Alpine resort of Courchevel to join his party for their holidays.

Mr Prokhorov was taken into custody at the Hotel Byblos by a team of 50 officers. He told police that he brought the women because he enjoyed the company of clever, beautiful and young female companions. Seven Russian women aged about 20 were released without charge.

Mr Prokhorov, 41, is chief executive of the mining giant Norilsk Nickel and is rated by Forbes magazine as the 89th richest man in the world.

He is a regular among the Russian millionaires who flock to Courchevel to celebrate the Orthodox New Year. Large numbers of young Russian women always arrive with them to share in the celebrations which culminate this year at the weekend.

A total of 26 people were arrested in the hotel raid on Tuesday. All have been released except seven Austrian travel agency employees, Mr Prokhorov and two executives from Norilsk Nickel. Xavier Richaud, the prosecutor of Lyons, who is heading the case, told The Times that a decision would be taken tomorrow on whether to charge Mr Prokhorov with procuring.

Eight Russian women were flown in to Courchevel last week and eight this week, Mr Richaud said. “According to Prokhorov, he likes the company of intelligent women. He met these women in restaurants or nightclubs in Russia and he brought them over, but neither he nor his friends had sexual relations with them.

“He has taken charge of all the expenses of these girls: he pays for the hotel, the restaurant, nights out, clothes. The question is whether they have to give something in return,” he added.

“Mr Prokhorov tells us ‘to stay young, you have to be surrounded with youth and beauty’.” It had been established, Mr Richaud said, that the women were not professional call girls, nor working for a prostitution agency.

In Moscow Norilsk Nickel said the company had no information on Mr Prokhorov’s whereabouts. “Our chief executive is on vacation. We expect him back on Monday,” a spokesman said. If there had been an arrest, it would have resulted from a misunderstanding, he added. “Our management are entirely law-abiding people.”

The arrest of the man who is the 8th richest Russian, according to Forbes’s list, is the latest incident involving the post-Soviet billionaires who have adopted France as their favourite playground. Two months ago, Suleyman Kerimov, one of the biggest shareholders in Gazprom, the Kremlin-controlled gas group, was gravely injured when he crashed his Ferrari on the Promenade des Anglais in the Riviera capital of Nice.

An estimated 10,000 Russians have packed into Courchevel for the Orthodox Christmas and New Year for each of the past few years. Mr Prokhorov, who is estimated to be worth more than £3 billion, is famous among them for lavish parties at which guests, dropped off by armoured Humvees and Mercedes, enjoy jereboams of Cristal champagne, the rich Russians’ favourite.

The investigators said that their attention had been drawn to the large number of young women from Russia. Some Russians in France said that the French police were being meddlesome or naive in assuming that young women who flocked to rich men were automatically prostitutes.

“These are good-time girls who enjoy the good life,” a Russian expatriate in Paris said. “They are well taken care of and have the run of the boutiques in Courchevel. It’s been like that since the beginning of time.”

When told of Mr Prokhorov’s arrest, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French presidential hopeful, replied: “There’s a man who wants to please.”

[QUOTE=Goldfinger]


Ca Traveler was arrested for flying young women from Moscow into the Alpine resort of Courchevel to party for the holidays.

taken into custody at the Hotel by 50 officers He told police he enjoyed beautiful young female Russians.

41, chief executive of the mining giant Norilsk Nickel
He is the CA Traveler and is procuring women in restaurants
or nightclubs in Russia and had sex with all the girls:

To stay young, you have to be surrounded
with beautifal call girls or prostitutes

Norilsk said our chief is on vacation.

Ca trav, dropped off by armoured Mercedes,
enjoys Cristal champagne, his favourite.

The investigators young French police
were being meddlesome to flock to prostitutes.

“These are good-times enjoy the good life,” the French president replied: “There’s a man.”

[/QUOTE]

NO WONDER you said you had to leave. ;)
This ain't what you would call "keeping a lower profile" though.
Too bad GoldMember blew your cover story :(

Has anyone seen this movie?

[url]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0820153/[/url]

It sounds similar to "Lilya 4-Ever" which was really good. If anyone has seen it I'm curious what it was like, was it realistic, does it have English subtitles?