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Not even a question for me... but a friend has to go there on family business.
Would be hard to pick worse time. I traveled there extensively during the first half of pukin's rule, and it was friendly then. Different today, so I wish him all the luck he might need.
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I was there in the commie days. Besides nice people, about the only thing I found consistently interesting was the historic architecture, and the museums. I also went to the ballet. But one has museums and ballet all over the place, without any risk of being held hostage in some whacked Russian political game.
If you GOTTA see an opera? Vienna State Opera still has 'standing' seats at the middle / back which you reserve by putting your tie at your spot......
Air is drawn IN from the park a couple blocks away and provides perfect, clean natural air for the entire venue......
Too much is never enough
He left 100 years ago because of the revolution. I feel sorry for the plain ordinary people in Russia and Ukraine and they have to endure that shithead Putin and all the other shitheads
Tell him to double check his luggage for cbd gummies etc etc. No pills, no medication. No Marines rings or other military adornments.
Trying to hide from entropy
John K
I wouldn't want to end up like Brittney Griner - and you know Brandon isn't gonna pull any strings to get ME back! LOL! I'd probably just waste away in prison - kinda like US citizen Gonzalo Lira is doing under the SBU Nazis in Bandera-kraine.
If Fat Donnie gets in, he might arrange a swap--he might offer up Melanoma Tramp for you (he has got to be getting tired of her by now). You could replace Little Donnie as the official Court Jester.
Edits: 06/28/23
If you got detained over there you'd be straight on their PR payroll!
Trying to hide from entropy
John K
Years ago visiting Poland I was on a trip with my friend (small businessman) He insisted we ate in McDonalds. Having all the restaurants serving real food for half the price he choose McDonalds for PR purpose.
This is what the Western Muppets are choosing as well because that's what's programmed in their "one way street" brains
I never get this.
What is the PR purpose?
To convey the idea that your new business partners live in a country with shit food?
I've experienced the same in Germany - Being forced to eat Chicago Pizzas in Frankfurt is just wrong.
Trying to hide from entropy
John K
And USA is the main "Success story" in this century. It doesn't matter that it farts in the bed and you would be much better off fucking a room radiator instead. The power of projection is overwhelming and everybody is playing it cool. Want it or not and it doesn't matter if you are PHD and speak ten languages and have dialectics in the little finger. If you're born in US McDonalds is in your DNA and the rest of the world want to be just like you-Mr.Coolio
Edits: 06/28/23
I thought that Comrade Chris already had that position?
Yes, with the 75th Rangers
I realize you haven't been there in a long time, but this is what it looked like on Saturday (the 24th). Hmm. . . Saturday. . . wasn't there something else going on that day?
View YouTube Video
right before they were arrested for "spying" and subsequently poisoned with plutonium. Mind your Ps & Qs, Comrade Chris, because Uncle Vlad is keeping an eye on you.
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. . . there are a couple of these videos uploaded to YouTube practically every day! Darned Russian propaganda! ;-)
NO.
No possible way would I visit that city.
I'm sure that tourists are 'marked' and used as prey....
Too much is never enough
She and her Canadian tour group had no particular concerns with personal safety or security -- but that was then.
Dmitri Shostakovich
tour groups have limited appeal to some. I met a couple of nice women who were sitting outside in the sun , bored by the tour group presentation going on inside the notable attraction on whose steps they sat , and they couldn't leave the group.
They were american teachers over there studying the language, so they joined with my group, and really helped with language issues. We had a great time going to the summer palace.
Kinda understandable really...
The two situations have nothing in common. Back then they were under constant surveillance, but under no risk. They only traveled in groups and according to an approve plan.
The beginning of the 21st century was totally different. I would go through passport control and then... go anywhere I wished.
Some people were met by friends or families, others were free to board the bus or hire a taxi. I usually had someone waiting for me, either the business partners, apartment rental rep, or rental car folks.
I was still supposed to register with the authorities - they wanted to know where I stayed, but there was an easy workaround - for $20 you could get the required stamp.
You were supposed to declare the cash you brought, but they did not even check it. Only once I was asked to present it, and the custom officer simply lifted the pile of notes with two fingers, and let me through.
The international relations were still good and no one was looking for complications.
Visiting post Soviet countries, staying in best hotels and playing aristocracy for a few bucks thanks to ridiculous exchange rates.
They are so pissed off those days are over.
I don't remember Moscow hotels being so cheap in the 90s. They were not enough of them and too many westerners were there hustling.
Arthur Clark was highly critical of travel to the Soviet Union.
You paid in advance than were chisseled at every turn.
How many empty stadiums CAN you stand to visit?
His ONLY advantage? They didn't know his wife spoke near-fluent Russian....
This is not listed in the google search for 'Arthur Clark on Russia' but rather printed in one of his books which is in my personal library......
I doubt anything substansive has changed.
Too much is never enough
If you spoke the language and knew what you wanted, the nineties and the first decade of the 21st century were a goldmine for anyone interested in what that country had to offer.
I really wish that shithole could somehow return to those times, less their negatives.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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A New York Times article (free to read) reports collusion of Russian military general Surovikin with Prigozhin's plans of rebellion. Other Russian military officers are implicated as well. Prigozhin's takeover of Rostov was done too easily and was even cheered. Likewise with his caravan/march on Moscow. At no time did available Russian military officers convincingly obstruct Prigozhin.
How's Putin gonna respond? Major purges within the Russian military are probably forthcoming.
The still unconfirmed story has it he and his deputy were arrested on a charge of treason, and put into Lefortovo... I don't need to tell you what that is.
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. . . grail guardian knight's comment in "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade":"He chose. . . poorly!". (And now Putin's got him by the balls.)
WOW. That's fantastic news.
Speak out, you got to speak out against the madness
You got to speak your mind, if you dare - David Crosby
is a very good sign.
Looks like he/she will be on their own.
Gsquared
No. Not a good idea for anyone from a NATO nation.
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