tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987783726980788842024-03-06T21:02:11.504+01:00Ask a RussianAsk any question on Russia and Russians and get a quick answerAsk a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.comBlogger28125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-38820634649319545762011-11-22T20:32:00.010+01:002015-08-20T15:24:27.427+02:00Consumer goods shortage in Russia<span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">What</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">kind</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">of</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">products</span></span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">missing</span></span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">difficult</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">to</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">acquire</span></span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Russia</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">that</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">yourself</span></span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">others</span></span> have <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">wanted</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">to</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">purchase</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">before</span></span>? I <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">know</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">this</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">is</span></span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">weird</span></span> question but <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">any</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">help</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">would</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">be</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">greatly</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">appreciated</span></span>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Thanks</span></span>,</span></span><span style="color: #888888; font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;"> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Garrott</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Dear</span></span> Garrot!</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Thank</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">you</span></span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">your</span></span> question. <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Well</span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">your</span></span> question <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">evoked</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">so</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">many</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">childhood</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">memories</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">that</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">it</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">will</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">be</span></span> a lie <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">to</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">say</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">that</span></span> I <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">want</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">to</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">forget</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">those</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">times</span></span>.</span> </div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Born</span></span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">the</span></span> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">USSR</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> I <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">witnessed</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">only</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">the</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">last</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">decade</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">of</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">so</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">called</span></span> “<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_goods_in_the_Soviet_Union#Consumer_supply_in_the_1980s">consumer <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">goods</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">shortage</span></span></a>” <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">which</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">accompanied</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">my</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">compatriots</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">through</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">the</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">history</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">of</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">the XX</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">century</span></span>. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">A <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">LITTLE</span></span> BIT <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">OF</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">HISTORY</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">The</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">shortages</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">were</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">both</span></span> horizontal and vertical <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">which</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">means</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">that</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">they</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">affected</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">both</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">the</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">supply</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">of</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">intermediate</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">goods</span></span> as <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">well</span></span> as <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">related</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">complementary</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">goods</span></span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">This</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">could</span></span> have <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">involved</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">several</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">hours</span></span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">day</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">spent</span></span> in queues <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">just</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">to</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">obtain</span></span> basic <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">products</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">like....</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">food</span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food" title="Food"></a>.</div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">I <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">spent</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">my</span></span> teen years </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">in <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">the</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">lines</span></span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error"></span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">groceries</span></span> not noticing</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US"> the <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">hours</span></span> go <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">by</span></span></span></b><b><span lang="EN-US">. <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Like</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">many</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">kids</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">of</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">my</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">generation</span></span> I <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">spent this </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">time</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">reading</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">my</span></span> favorite <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">world</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">classics</span></span>. </span></b><b style="color: red; font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"><span lang="EN-US"><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Thus</span></span> , I can say, that unwillingly the Soviet <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">grocery</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">shortage</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">contributed</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">to</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">my</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">general</span></span> culture. ;)</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">It</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">also</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">is</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">very</span></span> important <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">to</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">remember</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">that</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">different</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">regions</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">of</span></span> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">USSR</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">had</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">different</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error">methods</span><span class="blsp-spelling-error"></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">of</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">products</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">distribution</span></span>. <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">Sometimes</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">this</span> </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">regional</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error">divergence <span class="blsp-spelling-error">was</span> more <span class="blsp-spelling-error">significant</span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error"></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error"><span class="blsp-spelling-error">than</span></span> the social one. </span><img alt="" src="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1198778372698078884" /><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Some studies mention today that “those , who during the 1970—1980s were considered as Soviet Intelligentsia as well as simple employees have different<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>memories of Soviet consumer goods shortage than those who belonged to soviet leadership families". </span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #888888; font-size: 7.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> </span></b><span lang="EN-US">Through the Stalin and Khruschev times Kommunist Party leaders denied this obvious fact. But all Russian citizens knew that your life will change once you either get into the countries’ elite. You will be shopping in the<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryozka">“reserved to elite only” shops </a>(<span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="color: red;">a secret invention of the planned economy</span></span>). Or if you have no chance to become a part of this elite, your life could be much nicer if you make friends with those who work in these shops.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">No doubt this contributed to the hidden corruption in the USSR. But still the majority of Soviet population had more chances to make friends with sales staff of “closed to public” boutiques than ever have a chance to visit those shops.</span></div>
<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">THE TIME HAS COME</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Now, 25 years later, everything has changed. Like kids who waited for Christmas presents for too long our people happily enjoy consumerism. All tastes are catered.<br /><br />So if someone still thinks that Russians lack anything he will live a real disillusion. Those times have gone. </span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Like in any shops in Europe during</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> any season </span><span lang="EN-US">you will find </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">in Russian shops </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">everything you want or dream to see. <span style="color: #993399; font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;">(I remember seeing our Moscow municipal house cleaner browsing on his iPhone3 a month before they were officially launched in Russia. Funny, no?) </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span> <br />
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Modern Russians are curious and open to new consumer world discoveries. Different manufactures from all over the world dream of entering the Russian market, hoping to conquer millions of new customers who will taste, use, try anything which is considered fashionable<br />
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...to such extend that only a<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="color: #6600cc;"> good taste <span style="font-size: 78%;">(and definitely money, which is never enough) </span></span></span><span style="color: red;">will remain in real shortage</span>!<br />
<img alt="" src="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1198778372698078884" />Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-24837177381989049372011-02-13T12:42:00.010+01:002011-02-13T14:16:15.546+01:00What do Russians think of other nations: Americans, Finns, etc..<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkpnmb3Z3Efr0rp0davFcQoDi-ddSctA8J_NoH4uiXgvqsiqvI_701yqfZcNpq83PI2634xEAOLC5PS21pVRdvf7WKbmaPZr8gq5FWoC392YlT1QtngmtVKK4V9WebnozqGwAO5zlNOlia/s1600/4C439A95258D5.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 140px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkpnmb3Z3Efr0rp0davFcQoDi-ddSctA8J_NoH4uiXgvqsiqvI_701yqfZcNpq83PI2634xEAOLC5PS21pVRdvf7WKbmaPZr8gq5FWoC392YlT1QtngmtVKK4V9WebnozqGwAO5zlNOlia/s200/4C439A95258D5.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573149293074055074" border="0" /><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >1) I am Finnish and growing up all I heard about Russians was negative.<br />Pejorative words were used which I know now wound Finnish speaking<br />Russians. The stereotype was that Russians were dirty, dishonest sexist.<br />No one could do business in Russia with out getting involved with the<br />mafia and bribery was as much a part of business as a handshake. Well,<br />more than statements it was a general sense of loathing.<br /><br />Since then I have grown up and met many people from all over the world<br />and I have realized that many of these stereotypes are false, or like<br />most stereotypes deeply skewed. I also realize that the hatred Finns<br />feel is for the things to do with the war and like all wars bad things<br />are done and those things were done by men who are now dead or practically dead.<br /><br />Our view of Russians is pretty mean. My question is what is Russia's perception of us? What stereotypes do your people have about Finland and Finns? Asked by Miina</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">2) I've always been curious what Russians think of their neighbours (especially the ones who used to be a part of Soviet Union). I live in a country that have once been heavily influenced by the Soviet Union and that period of history left people here with a specific animosity towards Russians (more towards their politicians though, than to an average Russian). I will be be more than happy to hear your thoughts.</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"></span></span> <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(136, 136, 136);font-size:78%;" >Asked by Alexandra</span><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br />3) What does the average Russian think about about Americans and the United States? Do they see us as stupid, bad, etc.?</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Asked by Brittany, USA</span></span><br /><br />Dear Miina, Alexandra & Brittany!<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />I am sure these are the first questions of whole possible series </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">"WHAT-DO- RUSSIANS-THINK-OF..."</span> When I just opened my blog I was wondering when I am going to get this most typical question of all expats. At some point of any conversation it pops out living me wondering what to answer.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;">There were rarely happy times in the history of Europe and the first half of 20th century brought huge changes to the territories of many countries. </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">(We don't mention the fall of 3 major Empires : Russian, Ausrtia-Hungary, Germain ones) </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >. (Was it less painful then the crash of the colonial world of African </span><span style="font-size:100%;">countries?) How to measure positive and negative points of such events.<br />And would it be less painful to our generation to find out what people thought in the 15 th century after <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War">Hundred Year's War</a> in Europe.<br /></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />Still , I understand that it must be very important to those who ask really get the true answer ...<br /><br />BUT the thing is that to me this question if more from the provocative series ones: "</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 102, 0); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" >WHAT-MEN-THINK-ABOUT-THE-WOMEN", "WHAT-DO-MAKE-PEOPLE-HAPPY? LOVE OR MONEY?"</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />No matter what you answer the problem of such questions will be the true <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">answer</span> as the is no such thing, as <span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0); font-weight: bold;">an absolute truth</span>. Reality has many faces and everyone speaks of his own experience. So all variations of answers are possible.<br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;">If you spent your childhood playing with a cute neighbor later in you live you are most likely to think that <span style="font-weight: bold;">ALL</span> neighbors are cute. <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);">If on the contrary you were chased around by a crowd of teenage neighbors your perception of the neighbors will be not so optimistic...<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Vq652OxBbwQaeWss4wFHqgiH8eE6shB_0BbuaII8nqcYUvtKOjJdGVLaTiGCRMKtYBfFd0nVDBkd7TBxcnszl2DUb6bJfruj8Zeh8K5BPvX2qfqepg_w4nKYnxzM_pGNVaBbH-WDBXyT/s1600/5264760.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Vq652OxBbwQaeWss4wFHqgiH8eE6shB_0BbuaII8nqcYUvtKOjJdGVLaTiGCRMKtYBfFd0nVDBkd7TBxcnszl2DUb6bJfruj8Zeh8K5BPvX2qfqepg_w4nKYnxzM_pGNVaBbH-WDBXyT/s200/5264760.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573152303967428610" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">I have met once a nice old British gentlemen, whose daughter was married to a French guy, and who claimed to hate French....but was a subject to his family jokes, as he found any French he met in his life "<span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">absolutely-adorable</span></span>".<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">People might have strong "pro" or "contre" opinions on the other nationalities, but if you try to scratch a little and get to the origin of such opinion you must be ready for surprises. Even when all claim to know the truth... you might discover a little thing which will balance the opinions.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">We live in the open world . Have many sources of information to choose from..and still our opinion on the other nations has nothing to do with the nationality or any national identity. It is often </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">related</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> to the personal experience.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">P.S. I know this is not the answer you have expected but I am afraid this is the only one possible )))))</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-5720148764399474542011-01-09T18:17:00.020+01:002015-08-20T16:10:48.537+02:00Marrying a Russian guy. Part 2: "Asking a girl's hand"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWE_n4BUkdvgG69kIfve70eSFT5uwxH_7kwwUX0VqfSaN7SPzahlqt0ZjseJE36pOjEH6T304ADaDmwVgoD57x6nwhyphenhyphenNft6ld1-TvdAL-Bd2rgHd-YF5KCYq6nux76KdT-GaTWFe1yDobh/s1600/6580093befa7t.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560250901413694402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWE_n4BUkdvgG69kIfve70eSFT5uwxH_7kwwUX0VqfSaN7SPzahlqt0ZjseJE36pOjEH6T304ADaDmwVgoD57x6nwhyphenhyphenNft6ld1-TvdAL-Bd2rgHd-YF5KCYq6nux76KdT-GaTWFe1yDobh/s320/6580093befa7t.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 268px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 320px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;">My American daughter has fallen in love with a Russian man in the States, actually to be specific he's Ukraine. Is it customary for him to ask her father and I for her hand in marriage?<br />Also my daughter says his family won't be at the wedding because they are not allowed to leave the Ukraine? Does that seem normal?<br />Asked by Elissa, USA</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Однако мало кто знает о его происхождении."><span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: bold;">I am happy to learn that Russian (ex-USSR) traditions regarding proposing are of interest for people in other countries. That means that our boys do marry foreign girls !</span></span><br /><br />However, few of Russian (<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;">by that I mean ex-USSR populations)</span></span> know the origin of this ritual.<br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">SANS LIEU SANS TEMPS</span></span><br />Many believe that "asking a hand" tradition came from Western Europe, where several centuries ago was established a custom of offering future bride when<span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Многие ученые считают, что оно пришло из Западной Европы, где несколько столетий назад в одной из стран существовал обычай, делая женщине предложение, дарить ей перчатку."> proposing to her</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Многие ученые считают, что оно пришло из Западной Европы, где несколько столетий назад в одной из стран существовал обычай, делая женщине предложение, дарить ей перчатку."> one glove. </span><span title="Отсюда и пошло выражение «просить руки», которое затем стало достаточно широко употребляться во всем мире."><br /><br />Hence the expression "<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">ask a hand</span>" became widely used throughout the world. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Безусловно, «просить руки» означает не только предложение создать семью, но и обещание любви и заботы, понимания, поддержки везде и во всем.">Of course, that means not only proposal to create a family, <span style="color: #6600cc; font-weight: bold;">but also the promise to love, care and support.</span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqKUpnK7dQrvZutfskA3rweMzjafQOACIICLt3TpCqGdHCHkbczWX2-sDD_1czKiDi06d2SDqPCJZKSHJMTaUwgvNG2_sfL_dkxZoINEkW8Q6eSPLD9R5iPpn91IC7lielNgCyK3P8JLj7/s1600/007ewkzt.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560256813367628178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqKUpnK7dQrvZutfskA3rweMzjafQOACIICLt3TpCqGdHCHkbczWX2-sDD_1czKiDi06d2SDqPCJZKSHJMTaUwgvNG2_sfL_dkxZoINEkW8Q6eSPLD9R5iPpn91IC7lielNgCyK3P8JLj7/s320/007ewkzt.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 241px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Делая предложение, мужчина обещает любить свою избранницу вечно, делить с ней радости и печали, хранить ей верность."><span style="font-size: 180%;">In the ideal world</span>, making such offer man promises to love his woman forever, to share her joy and sorrow & to be faithful. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Как приятное и необходимое дополнение он гарантирует любимой постоянную заботу и понимание в любой ситуации, так как все женщины нуждаются в поддержке и именно этого ожидают от своего избранника."><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"><br /><br />Sweet and necessary precision</span>..... he guarantees her permanent attention, care and understanding in any situation.</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Безусловно, «просить руки» означает не только предложение создать семью, но и обещание любви и заботы, понимания, поддержки везде и во всем."><span style="color: #6600cc; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #cc33cc; font-style: italic;"> (It is international, isn't it? ))))</span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Как приятное и необходимое дополнение он гарантирует любимой постоянную заботу и понимание в любой ситуации, так как все женщины нуждаются в поддержке и именно этого ожидают от своего избранника."><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Мужчина, решивший обзавестись семьей, должен иметь не только материальную и моральную независимость, но и самое главное - уверенность в своих чувствах и намерениях по отношению к своей возлюбленной.">And of cause it always meant that <span style="color: red; font-size: 130%; font-style: italic;">a man who decided to start a family must have not only material and moral independence but most importantly - the confidence in his feelings and intentions towards his future wife</span>.<br />....And of course, he</span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Еще задолго до того как сделать женщине предложение, мужчина должен доказать ей и себе, что он действительно любит ее и уверен в своих чувствах."> must prove to his future bride</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Еще задолго до того как сделать женщине предложение, мужчина должен доказать ей и себе, что он действительно любит ее и уверен в своих чувствах."> and to <span style="color: #cc0000; font-weight: bold;">the people who raised her </span>that he is sure of his feelings. </span><span title="Женитьба - серьезный шаг, и прежде чем на него решиться, необходимо разобраться во многих жизненно важных вопросах.">Marriage (regardless of the country, time or language) has always been and is considered as one of the most serious steps in the human's existence</span><span title="Например,">.</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglQcpQKqWdRr5RmmbblVzI5fJFvGTz11BNXr68vag23MNiybacJGbZr92JHP9IGy9ZD5iPx99scemZxfhMY4wPP_wxya5IpGhGeJPYxYOtQNtTDl7OnqyNUteu8R96Vx4nksFCDGGovjuG/s1600/post-221-1268934623.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5560257618830869890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglQcpQKqWdRr5RmmbblVzI5fJFvGTz11BNXr68vag23MNiybacJGbZr92JHP9IGy9ZD5iPx99scemZxfhMY4wPP_wxya5IpGhGeJPYxYOtQNtTDl7OnqyNUteu8R96Vx4nksFCDGGovjuG/s200/post-221-1268934623.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 144px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><br />
<span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Если на большинство вопросов мужчина ответил «да», то он вполне может составить счастье той женщины, на которой собирается жениться."><span style="color: #006600;">Modern times, trends or traditions may insist that this is not important, but deep inside every parent would want to see the future life-time-partner (<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">isn't it what marriage is about</span></span>) to show respect towards the people who invested their lives in their daughter (<span style="color: #000099; font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;">wouldn't it be finally flattering for a parent to see that his opinion really counts</span><span style="color: #000099;">))))</span>. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span style="background-color: white;" title="У женщины же сегодня есть выбор - принять предложение или отказать, или отложить свое решение на время, чтобы взвесить все «за» и «против».">BUT one of the advantages of being a woman today is to have <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">a choice </span>(unlike many of our ancestors) <span style="font-size: 130%;">to accept</span> the offer, to <span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">refuse</span></span> it or to <span style="font-size: 130%;">postpone</span> her decision taking time <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">to weigh all pros and cons</span>. </span></span><br />
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<span class="long_text" id="result_box"><span title="Но в любом случае мужчина вправе рассчитывать хоть на какой-нибудь ответ.">STILL (just like our ancestors) man can expect at least some kind of response. </span><span style="background-color: white;" title="Он, в свою очередь, должен быть готов к отказу и принять собственное поражение, как подобает истинному джентльмену."><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;">He, in turn, </span></span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box" style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Он, в свою очередь, должен быть готов к отказу и принять собственное поражение, как подобает истинному джентльмену.">as a true gentleman</span></span><span class="long_text" id="result_box" style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: white;" title="Он, в свою очередь, должен быть готов к отказу и принять собственное поражение, как подобает истинному джентльмену."> should be ready to accept his own defeat if he gets rejected.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />RUSSIAN HISTORICAL FLASHBACK</span><br />
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Having said all of above I shall mention that Russians do have certain specific traditions in such ritual of "the proposal".<br />
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Until The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Revolution">October revolution of 1917</a> it was always a parent's choice when it came to choosing a husband or a wife. So in such delicate matter they often needed to be assisted in making the right choice.<br />
Thus the job of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matchmaking">matchmaker</a> was created, leaving to this person and the future parents-in-law from both sides these <span style="color: #ffcc00;">unromantic practical calculations and negotiations, which often made their </span>children's tastes secondary.<br />
That tradition<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_in_the_Eastern_Orthodox_Church"> left to a girl passive role</a> and only a matchmaker was her confident...however those matchmaker- ladies (often in the mature age) also managed to take advantage of the market ...and get potential grooms to fall for a matchmaker)))) (<span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #000099;">oh, this timeless competition between the youth and the experience!</span></span>)<br />
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Later on when the Soviets came to power many old tradition have been changed.<br />
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One of which was the disappearance of the engagement ritual; wedding rings, matchmaking job was considered as of a criminal character (<span style="font-style: italic;">"hooker</span>"?) and the people were given a freedom to choose their partners themselves. (The success of each choice can be argued, but every newlywed hoped to go through this casting only once in the lifetime).<br />
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Nevertheless, the mentality never change and the propaganda insisted that the IDEAL SOVIET CITIZENs were supposed to treat their parents with the respect. So, like in the old times, the men were supposed to ask permission of the future in-laws "to create a family with their daughter".<br />
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THAT HAS NOT CHANGED EVEN NOW. So such act will be considered as appropriate ))))<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">P.S. </span><br /></span><span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic;">To answer your second question...I do not know the background of the family of the boy. But even not mentioning financial aspects of the trip to the USA and knowing that the majority of ex-USSR citizens will need an entry visa to come to the US, I would refer this part of the question to the <a href="http://www.foreignborn.com/visas_imm/other_visas/9tourism_business_med.htm">USA </a></span><span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.foreignborn.com/visas_imm/other_visas/9tourism_business_med.htm">visa authorities </a></span></span>.Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-52405627430087905282010-10-31T21:42:00.005+01:002015-08-20T15:42:50.412+02:00Marrying a Russian guy<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicu0Vs7lTTU8T9rIFX2jK8e_WrKkeuxbp8nCbuFmu9vszGpq_TRr2k502H79QiYoxLPJsoKuueThOx-TbWF6dTylbMFqbPe3OXe9FFVpGRj2hWMoaCXFYo3DKlpAmRbWJytnl7hqmkBRYD/s1600/2ndstory_bachelors_small_px640.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5531679524945426418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicu0Vs7lTTU8T9rIFX2jK8e_WrKkeuxbp8nCbuFmu9vszGpq_TRr2k502H79QiYoxLPJsoKuueThOx-TbWF6dTylbMFqbPe3OXe9FFVpGRj2hWMoaCXFYo3DKlpAmRbWJytnl7hqmkBRYD/s200/2ndstory_bachelors_small_px640.jpg" style="float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 195px;" /></a> <span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">I'm</span></span></span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1">always</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2">curious</span></span></span></span> about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3">gender</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4">roles</span></span></span></span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5">expectations</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6">of</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7">other</span></span></span></span> cultures and I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8">was</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9">just</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10">wondering</span></span></span></span> about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11">Russian</span></span></span></span> men. I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12">hear</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13">so</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14">much</span></span></span></span> about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15">Russian</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16">women</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17">marrying</span></span></span></span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18">looking</span></span></span></span> for <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19">foreign</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20">husbands</span></span></span></span> and I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21">always</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22">hear</span></span></span></span> about <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23">Russian</span></span></span></span> men <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24">marrying</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25">only</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26">Russian</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27">women</span></span></span></span>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28">Even</span></span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29">the</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30">ones</span></span></span></span> I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31">know</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32">here</span></span></span></span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33">the</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34">U.S</span></span></span></span>. have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35">married</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36">Russian</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37">women</span></span></span></span>. Do <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38">the</span></span></span></span> men date or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39">marry</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40">foreign</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41">women</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42">ever</span></span></span></span>? If <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43">not</span></span></span></span> do <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44">you</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45">know</span></span></span></span> if <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46">there</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47">is</span></span></span></span> a cultural <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48">significance</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49">to</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50">this</span></span></span></span>?<br /><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51">Asked</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_52">by</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_53">Siobhan</span></span></span></span></div>
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<em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_54">Hey</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_55">Siobhan</span></span></span></span>, </em></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><em>I do not <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56">know</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57">what</span> man <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58">you</span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59">keeping</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60">mind</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_61">asking</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_62">this</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63">tricky</span> question. I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64">am</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65">not</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66">good</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67">at</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68">personal</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69">dating</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70">advice.</span></em></span></div>
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<em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71">So</span> consequently I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_56"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72">am</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_57"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73">afraid</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_58"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74">my</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_59"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75">answer</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_60"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76">will not be very personal or </span></span></span></span>original <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79">one</span>..as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_63"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80">it</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_64"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_81">is</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_65"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_82">not</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_66"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_83">only</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_67"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_84">the</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_68"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_85">Russian</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_69"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_86">men's</span></span></span></span> "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_70"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_87">thing</span></span></span></span>" <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_71"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_88">to</span></span></span></span> look for a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_72"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_89">Russian</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_73"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_90">wife</span></span></span></span>. As I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_74"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_91">mentioned</span></span></span></span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_75"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_92">one</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_76"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_93">of</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_77"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_77"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_77"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_94">my</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_78"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_78"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_78"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_95">previous</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_79"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_96">posts</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_80"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_97">many</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_81"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_81"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_81"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_98">other</span></span></span></span> men <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_82"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_82"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_82"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_99">often</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_83"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_83"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_83"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_100">also</span></span></span></span> look for </em><a href="http://askarussian.blogspot.com/2010/05/marry-russian-girl.html"><em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_85"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_85"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_85"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_102">Russian</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_86"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_86"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_86"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_103">spouses</span></span></span></span></em></a><em>. </em>(<span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_87"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_87"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_87"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_104">Shall</span></span></span></span> l do <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_88"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_88"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_88"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_105">my</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_89"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_89"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_89"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_106">research</span></span></span></span> and <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_91"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_91"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_91"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_108">write</span></span></span></span> on the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_92"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_92"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_92"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_109">qualities</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_93"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_93"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_93"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_110">of</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_94"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_94"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_94"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_111">Russian</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_95"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_95"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_95"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_112">wives</span></span></span></span>?) </span></span></div>
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<em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_96"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_96"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_96"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_113">Having</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_97"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_97"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_97"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_114">said</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_98"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_98"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_98"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_115">that</span></span></span></span> I <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_99"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_99"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_99"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_116">shall</span></span></span></span> admit <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_100"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_100"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_100"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_117">that</span></span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_101"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_101"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_101">many</span></span></span> men <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_102"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_102"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_102">of</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_103"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_103"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_103">other</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_104"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_104"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_104">nationalities who are</span></span></span> living <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_105"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_105"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_105">abroad</span></span></span>, do stick <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_106"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_106"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_106">to</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_107"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_107"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_107">their</span></span></span> traditions <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_108"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_108"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_108">when</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_109"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_109"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_109">looking</span></span></span> for a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_110"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_110"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_110">spouse</span></span></span>....Maybe they <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_111"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_111"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_111">prefer</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_112"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_112"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_112">to</span></span></span> have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_113"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_113"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_113">at</span></span></span> home a girl <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_114"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_114"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_114">who</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_115"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_115"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_115">will</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_116"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_116"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_116">remind</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_117"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_117"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_117">them</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_118"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_118"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_118">of</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_119"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_119"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_119">their</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_120"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_120"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_120">mothers</span></span></span> or <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_121"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_121"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_121">sisters</span></span></span>. Most likely she<span style="color: #009900;"><strong> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_123"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_123"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_123">will</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_124"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_124"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_124">cook</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_125"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_125"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_125">them</span></span></span> food <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_126"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_126"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_126">they</span></span></span> <span style="background-color: yellow;">used to eat</span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_128"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_128"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_128">their</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_129"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_129"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_129">childhood (<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #003300;">is it reassuring</span><span style="color: #003300;">?</span></span> )</span></span></span>, <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_130"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_130"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_130">will</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_131"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_131"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_131">sing</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_132"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_132"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_132">to</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_133"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_133"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_133">their</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_134"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_134"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_134">kids</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_135"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_135"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_135">the</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_136"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_136"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_136">songs</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_137"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_137"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_137">they</span></span></span> have <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_138"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_138"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_138">heard</span></span></span> as <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_139"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_139"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_139">babies (<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: #333300;">romantic?</span>)</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;">.</span></strong></span> <span style="background-color: yellow;">So that attachment to the origins</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_141"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_141"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_141">has</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_142"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_142"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_142">nothing</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_143"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_143"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_143">to</span></span></span> do <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_144"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_144"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_144">with</span></span></span> "the <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_145"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_145"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_145">special</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_146"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_146"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_146">Russian</span></span></span> tradition" but more <span class="blsp-spelling-error" 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class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_154">emigrants</span></span> living <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_156"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_156">abroad</span></span>.</em></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">But do not get discouraged. There are exceptions to all rules. </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_171"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_171">Russian</span></span> guys are not "<span style="color: #330033; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_176"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_176">the</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_177"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_177">creatures</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_178"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_178">unlike</span></span> others</span>" )))...in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_180"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_180">fact, </span></span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_181"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_181">they</span></span> are <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_182"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_182">not</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_183"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_183">that</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_184"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_184">different</span></span> and also like different types of girls to the point of even marrying some of them.<br />
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1.<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_203"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_203">Russian</span></span> 36 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_204"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_204">years</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_205"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_205">old</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_206"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_206">billionaire</span></span> <span style="color: #000099; font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_207"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_207">ANDREI</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_208"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_208">MELNICHENKO</span></span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_210"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_210">married</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_211"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_211">Serbian</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_212"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_212">beauty</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_213"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_213">queen</span></span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandra_Melnichenko"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_214"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_214">Sandra</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_215"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_215">Nicolic</span></span></span></a> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_216"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_216">offering</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_217"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_217">her</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_218"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_218">fairy</span></span> tale style <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_219"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_219">life</span></span> in <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_220"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_220">Russia</span></span>.</div>
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2. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_221"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_221">Famous</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_222"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_222">Russian</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_223"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_223">actor</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_224"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_224">Igor</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_225"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_225">Kostolevsky</span></span> (<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_226"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_226">Russian</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_227"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_227">Bret</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_228"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_228">Pitt</span></span>) <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_229"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_229">who</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_230"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_230">played</span></span> in 1975 the <span style="background-color: yellow;">XIX</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_237"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_237">century</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_233"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_233">Russian</span></span> noble <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_234"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_234">officer</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_238"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_238">who</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_239"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_239">felt</span></span> in love <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_240"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_240">with</span></span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_241"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_241">French</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_242"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_242">seamstress (<span style="font-size: 78%;">their real love story was immortalised in 1840 by the novel of Alexander Duma </span></span></span><em><span style="color: #000099; font-size: 78%;">THE FRENCH MASTER</span></em>)...<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_243"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_243">ended</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_244"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_244">up</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_245"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_245">marrying</span></span> his <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_246"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_246">French</span></span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_247">woman</span> 20 <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_248">years</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_249">later</span>.<br />
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3. <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_250">Russian</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_251">NHL</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_252">player</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Bure" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_253">Valery</span> Bure</a> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_254">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_255">happily</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_256">married</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_257">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_258">American</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_259">actress</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candace_Cameron_Bure" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_260">Candace</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_261">Cameron</span></a> . Now <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_262">they</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_263">raise</span> their three <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_264">children</span>.<br />
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5. And <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_284">the</span> most recent one ........<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_287">even</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_288">though</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_289">it</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_290">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_291">not</span> a <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_292">marriage,</span> but a<span style="font-size: 130%;"> <em><span style="color: #003300;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_294">head</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_295">spinning</span></span></em> love</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_296">of</span> a renown <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_297">model</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Campbell"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_298">Naomi</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_299">Campbell</span></a> and less known <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_300">Russian</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_301">real</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_302">estate</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_303">billionaire</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_304">Vladislav</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_305">Doronin</span>.</div>
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<em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_306">Apparently</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_307">she</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_308">is</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_309">willing</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_310">to</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_311">convert</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_312">to</span> the Russian <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_313">Orthodox church to be able to marry him in his faith</span>. </em><br />
<em><span style="color: red;">CUTE!</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_314">We'll</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_315">see</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_316">how</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_317">this</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_318">fairy</span> tale <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_319">ends</span> )))</em></div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_320">When</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_321">you</span> are finally <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_322">with</span> your <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_323">Russian</span> man, </span><span style="background-color: #f5f6f5;">apart from the natural cultural differences, please </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_324">be</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_325">ready</span> to deal with the feeling that "<em><span style="color: #330033;"><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_326">everything</span> is</span> <strong><span style="color: #663333;"><span style="font-size: 180%;">MEGA</span> </span></strong></em><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_327" style="color: #6600cc; font-weight: boldfont-size:180%;"><em>REAL</em>"</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-weight: bold;">...<em>to</em></span><em> <span style="color: #663333;"><strong><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_329">the</span> point <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_330">of</span> "<span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_331">even</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_332">too</span> <span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_333">much"</span></strong></span></em> ))) <span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">(like his favorite Russian language song in the rewind mode in the car</span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">)</span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Love, </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_334" style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">emotions, presents, flowers </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">will be overflowing as </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_336" style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">well</span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> as </span><span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_337" style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">sometimes</span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> silence, mystery </span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">or reluctance to "talk it over", etc... </span><strong><em>One thing is garanteed, you rarely will be bored.</em></strong></div>
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<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/X778LvF-FAk?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/X778LvF-FAk?fs=1&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-56379744081322091442010-09-30T18:21:00.000+02:002010-10-03T19:08:33.852+02:00Cursing in Russian translation difficulties<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRfYojRUCWfyrWnMTZIa_o0ei4qJirdi7OYVC1kDJYHVYhdaEr7C1tFKB2tlwLYq-QEPwWiaQk7DpOlWcUW6jiYMuzUTRz_sQ5C-aTNM8Dw3xfzIYpZSPcbcSBqn2gB7LN8J3hvXz2CNOy/s1600/mat.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRfYojRUCWfyrWnMTZIa_o0ei4qJirdi7OYVC1kDJYHVYhdaEr7C1tFKB2tlwLYq-QEPwWiaQk7DpOlWcUW6jiYMuzUTRz_sQ5C-aTNM8Dw3xfzIYpZSPcbcSBqn2gB7LN8J3hvXz2CNOy/s200/mat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523858819383864178" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >I was just browsing the web, trying to find out how to translate a sentence to Russian for the purpose of a short story I'm writing and I stumbled upon your blog and wondered if you would help me. 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The sentence in English is, pardon the rude word: "Fucking corpse stealer".<br /><br />Google Translate came up with this (I need a phonetic spelling since the story won't use Russian alphabet) :</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" > "Trahat' mertvyh vor."</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" > How accurate is that?<br /><br />The context is that the speaker is supposed to be insulting another character, who happens to be stealing dead bodies.<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >Best wishes</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" > Paul B.<br /></span><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">It is a tricky question</span> ))) as cursing (<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_mat">Mat</a> </span>in Russian) </span></span></span> <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">is apparently the strongest form of </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscene" title="Obscene" class="mw-redirect">obscene</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profanity" title="Profanity">profanity</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> used in </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language" title="Russian language">Russian</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> and other </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_language" title="Slavic language" class="mw-redirect">Slavic language</a><span style="font-family:georgia;"> communities<span style="font-weight: bold;">...and I try not to use<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">this</span></span> </span>Russian language on my site</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" > as there are a lot of subtlety in the context of cursing in Russian.<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUkY23jfaM6juPUqpNDKFa7n6nzt23EcBzEWeH0T6bu9M8IAXc8QGEI8aYU_JnlikRXkiOkTcpU2dYGe7y4ycVMMZUNE80tsNOiM6sLQ0xJNv68zVv7gJ2LVr25XBNb1w9UFRF-mwBPHDd/s1600/6850.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 165px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUkY23jfaM6juPUqpNDKFa7n6nzt23EcBzEWeH0T6bu9M8IAXc8QGEI8aYU_JnlikRXkiOkTcpU2dYGe7y4ycVMMZUNE80tsNOiM6sLQ0xJNv68zVv7gJ2LVr25XBNb1w9UFRF-mwBPHDd/s200/6850.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523860617314630578" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">However I </span><span style="font-size:100%;">will help you in this one</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" > )))<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:georgia;">If I understood correctly it is an insult...so if it is not an act and just addressed to a men and has to be very offensive it must be strong..... something like :</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:georgia;" >"</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><span style="font-family:georgia;">Ebanyi voryuga trupov"</span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">P.S. Never say anything like this in the face of Russian man....you risk to get immediate feedback</span><br /></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GFtIlhyK8YU8JGsAz2MmM1MH3wKscgaTr9PT-TLKFCsO0x-12Ee2gDij6v8wqTDAjZ7TDkTNDyNqVaFjqTRSJPefm2eXyK3JR5kdy5Bk6rxkCLzfMohzzOpVK-yKWHOUbpNHkR5fsBi2/s1600/Sultan-Ibragimov-Lance-Whitaker.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 158px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1GFtIlhyK8YU8JGsAz2MmM1MH3wKscgaTr9PT-TLKFCsO0x-12Ee2gDij6v8wqTDAjZ7TDkTNDyNqVaFjqTRSJPefm2eXyK3JR5kdy5Bk6rxkCLzfMohzzOpVK-yKWHOUbpNHkR5fsBi2/s200/Sultan-Ibragimov-Lance-Whitaker.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5523865869321474194" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 102, 255);"><br /><br /></span> </span><br /></span>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-88418066443553077082010-08-26T21:08:00.010+02:002015-08-20T16:15:48.546+02:00Russian farmers during winter...what did they do?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL1xepLy_IuIY-JmZqhnk0Ps8ZDt9wlGBXs61QILj66lVQ-n94iZE9ttSECbKsqGTQ4_MUL5f4Yd164UPzyZFQ7NGBTWglxIwWKjRtIdn8M7sBh7WfpSpgCL1kG9ZB3bVFNYJkNtOW2hD-/s1600/38.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5511657420485105058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL1xepLy_IuIY-JmZqhnk0Ps8ZDt9wlGBXs61QILj66lVQ-n94iZE9ttSECbKsqGTQ4_MUL5f4Yd164UPzyZFQ7NGBTWglxIwWKjRtIdn8M7sBh7WfpSpgCL1kG9ZB3bVFNYJkNtOW2hD-/s200/38.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 186px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;">I am doing some research into farming in Russia around 1914-1917 (focusing on pre-Revolution era) and I am really struggling to find out what farmers would do during the winter months, specifically in areas which receive a lot of snow? </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />I guess farming the land wasn't possible, but I can't find any information on what they would have been doing during winter. I understand that some workers would travel around for work, but I'm interested in those who would have owned their own farms and stayed there all year (kulaks I think?).</span></span><br />
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First of all I need to explain the Russian term "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulak">KULAK</a>". <span style="color: #663333;">(<span style="color: red;">Kulak - eng. </span></span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">FIST</span><span style="color: #663333;">) </span></div>
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This word (<span style="color: #3333ff;">which has very negative meaning in Russian</span>) describes the richest farmers (of the beginning of the XX century), who outsourced labor for heavy works and who were lenders of money and material to less fortunate neighbors.</div>
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Climate dictated habits & traditions of all nations. If Russian were engaged only in tilling the soil or wheat processing, the people would disappear either from cold or famine. That is why the unique nature of Russian plan required plowmen to adapt two types of the economy - the summer one and the winter one.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">SUMMER vs. WINTER</span></div>
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The objective of summer economy was to support the family with «agricultural activity».<br />
The objective of the winter one - was to get the income « from the crafts/business activity ». If the frost took care of the land in the winter the Russian farmer had nothing there. He had to be involved in some kind of business.</div>
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<span style="color: #000066; font-weight: bold;">In fact, the budget of Russian peasants consisted of only 50-75% of their agricultural work. The other 25-50 % of the income came from "trade or business".</span></div>
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Majority of men went to towns with own horse to become temporary cabs.</div>
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However many young families couldn't permit themselves to own a horse as it was very expensive to own an animal in the winter.</div>
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Others went to towns with the other men of their village to be hired for temporary works (carpenters, blacksmiths, etc). They tried to stay close together and formed <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artel">ARTEL</a>s (or cooperatives).</div>
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That is why there were very few healthy young men left in the villages during the winter, if not to say <span style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">NONE</span></div>
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The majority of families consisted of women and older members of the family with children.</div>
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Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-79225903452334238702010-08-09T20:45:00.000+02:002010-08-10T22:36:16.611+02:00Herbarium - Russian tradition?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbbflSdb_tY-1CoFOteWtNhCKI4KqKrrhLPhRHrWIk8nss11ITnCpm1C5kQjvg9vTiTLk3vfx-kXkkQoy8wbVzmwi6RwEs3gEaLtWYf1lTyN3tNEv_LkXmRQxSHHeGQ4RN3FEapheCQDc/s1600/45193393_zasoh.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 161px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNbbflSdb_tY-1CoFOteWtNhCKI4KqKrrhLPhRHrWIk8nss11ITnCpm1C5kQjvg9vTiTLk3vfx-kXkkQoy8wbVzmwi6RwEs3gEaLtWYf1lTyN3tNEv_LkXmRQxSHHeGQ4RN3FEapheCQDc/s200/45193393_zasoh.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503867605010199906" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >I was told that it's a Russian tradition to keep a flower in your book, just to have it with you. What is that called in English and Russian?<br /> Asked by Stanley<br /></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Герба́рий (лат. herbárium, от herba — «трава») — коллекция засушенных растений, препарированных в согласии с определёнными правилами." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Well, for the first time I have to admit that this statement is wrong.</span> Tradition is not Russian, but European.<br /><br />Keeping dried flowers in the books is called <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Herbarium</span> (<span style="font-style: italic;">Latin herbárium, from herba - "<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">grass</span>"</span>) - a collection of dried plants kept according to certain rules. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Обычно гербарные образцы после высушивания монтируются на листах плотной бумаги." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">Typically, the plants for herbarium after drying are put on sheets of paper. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="В зависимости от вида растения на гербарном листе может быть представлена целая особь, группа особей или часть крупного (например, древесного) растения." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv8XBkQRrIz7G_rk0eF_ixiT-D3FquFZ-VEwcu4otKO-CH6HRRPGRq2D5rXvxUwhfyA_1Gsgt-RQCI04YnZOfIJHVdbnbR-xqAejZZ18bzwlzkW4H4kEDLCsvBs5Z-Plveck2tDSOJAc2B/s1600/Ghini.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 142px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv8XBkQRrIz7G_rk0eF_ixiT-D3FquFZ-VEwcu4otKO-CH6HRRPGRq2D5rXvxUwhfyA_1Gsgt-RQCI04YnZOfIJHVdbnbR-xqAejZZ18bzwlzkW4H4kEDLCsvBs5Z-Plveck2tDSOJAc2B/s200/Ghini.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503873342064324178" border="0" /></a><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Первые гербарии появились в Италии в XVI веке." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">The first herbarium appeared in Italy in the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">XVI century</span>. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Их изобретение, связанное с изобретением бумаги, приписывается врачу и ботанику Луке Гини, основателю Пизанского ботанического сада." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">Their invention is related to the invention of paper is attributed to the doctor and botanist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca_Ghini">Luca Ghini</a>, founder of Pisa Botanic Garden. </span><span title="Гербарий самого Гини не сохранился, однако до наших дней дошли коллекции его непосредственных учеников." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">Herbarium of the Ghini has been destroyed later, but the collection of his close friends is still kept in museum.<br /><br /></span><span title="Из личного опыта :" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">FROM THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE</span><br /><br /></span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="в начальной школе мы собирали листья,проглаживали ил утюгом,клеили в альбом и подписывали." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">In the elementary school, we collected leaves, ironed them to make them dry and pasted into an album signing the name of the tree.</span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Выкапывали растение с корнем,сушили,крепили на листы картона,а дальше шли классификация и описание" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">This ritual is known to all people who went to the schools in ex-USSR. </span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="После первого курса собирали травянистые растения(ходили с савочком и корзиной)." onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">After the first year experience collecting just leaves, next season we would have </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Выкапывали растение с корнем,сушили,крепили на листы картона,а дальше шли классификация и описание" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">dug the plant by the roots, dried, pasted on sheets of cardboard and then added a list of type description...<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">and couple months later this whole album would finish in the garbage )))))))</span><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">LOVE</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgamPUlZPO737MG9_HSjmyBvkqO5mYd_dWZ56jr91Q070Lc6ALcCDld9D87iWtq_8tKtRKaBMaJwQcxBSr8p-8x_7lFeQH4Daidk3UVstzQ4euyO_WQGdmPgDtSrShgvaw29lDG_WADG9fv/s1600/w_103739_1.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgamPUlZPO737MG9_HSjmyBvkqO5mYd_dWZ56jr91Q070Lc6ALcCDld9D87iWtq_8tKtRKaBMaJwQcxBSr8p-8x_7lFeQH4Daidk3UVstzQ4euyO_WQGdmPgDtSrShgvaw29lDG_WADG9fv/s200/w_103739_1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503877624833036290" border="0" /></a><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span title="Из личного опыта :" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">I don't know who told you that it's a Russian tradition. But most probably it was a girl.)))))))) Well, she probably was also very romantic, wasn't she? )))))))))))<br /></span></span><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span title="Из личного опыта :" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">I have to say that keeping a flower (<span style="color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">especially which was given to you by a person you've loved</span>) in the book is <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">so old-fashioned</span>. </span></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin"><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span title="Из личного опыта :" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'">Russian famous poet of XIX century </span></span></a><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span title="Из личного опыта :" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pushkin"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">Mr.Alexander Pushkin</span></a> has devoted several poems to this tradition.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Classics.....and out of fashion!</span><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyg4CkQXZUDNIG0V_KmrlsVIxmHBO2zn2X2HSkVYw0FsGKJNenRWw9cS9ZnCcnxwafeZu3aGBPTgFV0coHlIRxx-XrddPraTfwzvRDAtF2fUlHaj-I09yCJDG4ykET2l0doMyFI85lEZje/s1600/0_16a54_684e8299_XL.jpeg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 153px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyg4CkQXZUDNIG0V_KmrlsVIxmHBO2zn2X2HSkVYw0FsGKJNenRWw9cS9ZnCcnxwafeZu3aGBPTgFV0coHlIRxx-XrddPraTfwzvRDAtF2fUlHaj-I09yCJDG4ykET2l0doMyFI85lEZje/s200/0_16a54_684e8299_XL.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503878738431020930" border="0" /></a><br /><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span title="Из личного опыта :" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We all know that teenage loves rarely last and make fun of Pushkin love poems. </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">..........But frankly</span> wouldn't you feel a little pinch in the heart if opening the book you find a dry flower - witness of a forbidden kiss, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">for example?? ))))))))</span></span></span></span><span id="result_box" class="long_text"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" title="Выкапывали растение с корнем,сушили,крепили на листы картона,а дальше шли классификация и описание" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'"><br /></span></span>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-19913593920032419142010-07-31T20:41:00.003+02:002015-08-20T16:11:57.367+02:00Russian hackers<span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tByQV-Z4aI8tvAuwJBV5JGnpF2LKhAeW3oRfDN5B8V4GghhOnA6NqlArHwazlCKI2CxSgzxUX4UCw_SOWW8tWHbiHJM_KpDx3SmnQydFydFwJNgx-o462eLltu-p4I_JQeMHIH4yqktP/s1600/2007-10-6t.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5502387959884173298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5tByQV-Z4aI8tvAuwJBV5JGnpF2LKhAeW3oRfDN5B8V4GghhOnA6NqlArHwazlCKI2CxSgzxUX4UCw_SOWW8tWHbiHJM_KpDx3SmnQydFydFwJNgx-o462eLltu-p4I_JQeMHIH4yqktP/s200/2007-10-6t.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Why do so many Russian's seem to be hackers? Or are really good at computers?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Asked </span>by KaiWen, China</span><span style="font-size: 78%;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;">Naturally , I am against generalization...It will be a way too ambitious to claim that <span style="color: red;">a lot of</span><span style="color: red;"> Russians</span> are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28computing%29">hackers.</a> </span></span></div>
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But I understand your question and must say that recent events did create a certain image of advanced computer users coming from the territory of Russian Federation. Many of them caused a lot of sleepless nights to the IT security departments of various Western corporations.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><br /><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">TERMS DEFINITION</span></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"> BY</span> </span><a href="http://stallman.org/articles/on-hacking.html" style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">WESTERN HACKER: RICHARD STALLMAN</a><br />
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"<span style="font-style: italic;">Around 1980, when the news media noticed hackers, they determined real hacking as: the security breaking which some hackers occasionally did. They ignored all the rest of hacking, and used the term "breaking security", no more no less. Since </span><span style="font-style: italic;">that the media</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> have </span><span style="font-style: italic;">spread that definition, disregarding our attempts to correct them. As a result, most people have a false idea of what we hackers actually do and what we think. </span><br />
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You can help correct the misunderstanding simply by making a<span style="font-weight: bold;"> distinction between security breaking and hacking—by using the term "cracking" instead of security breaking.</span> The people who do it are "<span style="color: red;">crackers</span>". Some of them may also be hackers, just as some of them may be chess players or golfers; most of them are not...."</div>
<span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Lets see <span style="color: red;">who is<span style="font-style: italic;"> TOVARISCH</span> hacker</span>? ))))))</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><br /><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">EARNING REPUTATION</span><br /><br />It is almost impossible to say when it all started, but one of Russian <a href="http://www.snob.ru/selected/entry/13263?page=1#comment:65342">IT forum</a> gave a colorful description of a reason why Russians computer specialists often associated with trouble among the other members of Internet community.</span></span><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Obu4MY_QGtabpgqF-aRMswJECnmwrk9YcGpRWiVMqVOT9thVKTiuzl5WPi4LXcSnkl2HUjm55yr5HA8BbcX4k9IpMzhdBGDzkqSVWNSPiHk213Xgebw6V-OpPw_nM_Ter8RFJuAab5yQ/s1600/80s-computers.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5503846282178338562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1Obu4MY_QGtabpgqF-aRMswJECnmwrk9YcGpRWiVMqVOT9thVKTiuzl5WPi4LXcSnkl2HUjm55yr5HA8BbcX4k9IpMzhdBGDzkqSVWNSPiHk213Xgebw6V-OpPw_nM_Ter8RFJuAab5yQ/s200/80s-computers.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><br />
"<span style="font-style: italic;">Soon after the shoot of USSR those who got a foreign </span> <span style="font-style: italic;">software, had neither documentation nor any technical support to count on. So that was the moment when Russian system administrators were forced to find their way around, more precisely to write own patches there where in general it was almost impossible.<br /><br />Therefore, at the beginning of 90th many Western companies loved to hire Russians /or Soviet computer specialists - as where the Western colleagues would have spent hours on the phone with IT support, Russians would spit and write his own patch.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Many of such cases, by the way, then became a standard de facto. </span>"<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /><span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">RECENT<br /></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdATxvN5VddttMnWkd40SSW7YQp6om3LGhF4SWrzVtnNMXY5zXfnQ02BzgGu97gBMVxl5lXmmfCBay8NkcvBMcf7MUlNX5ZzN511LUujXjb61rlQNHZ4Q2RJ6ELnbuoRhspAc082-O18qL/s1600/inattack_030123165405b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500516900120627746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdATxvN5VddttMnWkd40SSW7YQp6om3LGhF4SWrzVtnNMXY5zXfnQ02BzgGu97gBMVxl5lXmmfCBay8NkcvBMcf7MUlNX5ZzN511LUujXjb61rlQNHZ4Q2RJ6ELnbuoRhspAc082-O18qL/s200/inattack_030123165405b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 169px;" /></a>Russian hackers deserved a special attention of US security services when in 2009 the US Government reported a series of hacking attacks (remember <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34521131">Citi group case)</a>, as well as the theft of more than <span style="font-weight: bold;">$9 million</span> from systems belonging to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Royal Bank of Scotland</span>.</div>
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />The threats forced US President Barack Obama to announce that defense against Internet attacks became a ''<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">national security priority</span>''.<br /><br />As <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,539900,00.html">Fox</a> news reported at the time, that the main sources of danger were </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">"<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">Identity theft, social networking, and modifying commercial software" </span><span style="color: black;">However,</span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">according to Amit Yoran, a form</span>er cybersecurity chief at the Department of Homeland Security<span style="font-style: italic;">, "</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">the combining all 3 methods raised the attack method to a new level</span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">, which have never been seen before</span>"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-tXyz5MiUlvdw9lU7zXYpB6QKWH86EZoOzxjIPaKXTN9nIXAs6TLxnZW39i3jd8N0hw3GlW9f12sJ3yt3aoTiLpp1WkfyCDelSJEn7kMW5uDPylJ3VXRPslkohdcXUMiIca2QduOebXOf/s1600/kaspersky-logo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500534708198146818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-tXyz5MiUlvdw9lU7zXYpB6QKWH86EZoOzxjIPaKXTN9nIXAs6TLxnZW39i3jd8N0hw3GlW9f12sJ3yt3aoTiLpp1WkfyCDelSJEn7kMW5uDPylJ3VXRPslkohdcXUMiIca2QduOebXOf/s200/kaspersky-logo.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 58px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Fair enough<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8561910.stm"> BBC quoted the vision of the problem by famous creator of computer anti- virus program Mr.Kaspersky </a> "</span><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;">Russian attacks look more professional. The malware and design are more complicated and more technical. I think it's thanks to Russia's technical education. Its graduates are probably the best</span><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 100%;">.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">"</span><br />
<span style="color: red; font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;"><br />EDUCATION TO BLAME</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Well, known fact that any IT specialist will be on the job market the most demanded graduate....so no wonder that those who get IT diplomas are the first ones to get a well paid job offer. </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">So </span><span style="color: red; font-family: georgia;">90 % of graduates do end up in the business. Of which kind</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">... to be confirmed ))))</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">Still there is no reason <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">to be paranoiac</span> and it will be incorrect to say that Russian hackers are prepared by Russian colleges. <span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic;">(In fact, Russian colleges</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic;"> have been highly criticized recently for not preparing well qualified modern IT personnel ))))</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">Those who speak English and able to work with English language technical documentation in average earn <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">per month in Moscow up to </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">RUB </span></span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">50 000</span> ($</span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">1 680</span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">),</span> in <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Saint Petersburg</span> <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">RUB </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">40 000<span style="color: red;"> ($1 345)</span></span> , <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">in Novosibirsk</span> up to <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: black;">RUB </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">30 000 </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">($1000)</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"><br />But if you take into consideration that the IT</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"> engineering is mainly a man's world (92%), please also consider that<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">78% are under 30 years</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">old. </span>Still only 49% of IT have graduated with such diploma. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">And here comes <span style="font-weight: bold;">the most interesting part...........</span>according to the polls of independent experts <span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">33% </span>of IT specialists <span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">learn from books</span> when they want to upgrade their level of knowledge. Other <span style="color: red;">20%</span> of Russian IT specialists just count <span style="color: red;">on their own capacity to learn from own experience</span> and mistakes.</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #330033; font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;">(<span style="color: #6600cc;">Of cause it will be immoral to prize the people who break into somebody's personal security but who in the modern world will object that </span></span><i style="color: #6600cc;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Necessity is the mother of Invention</span>. Besides, would that be only Russian hackers </i><span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;">who want to get a big check at the end of the month.</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-family: georgia; font-size: 100%;">)</span><span style="color: #6600cc; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">))) </span></span><br />
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Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-59685533377282576032010-07-15T21:53:00.001+02:002015-08-20T16:13:29.221+02:00Russian war allies: General Winter & General Hunger<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtaVx1KRqof0VfwMb5LAmAWJzOKUNCk5rY7kU4WVX9djkZDLuGMyrDQHOb5uumuzVa0N6bgj-ulbUcNr28fe79tH-AmDGCFuhAF4UItVs_64ZsLBGNSsSOaaCuER_EzRpHj7lPJd5haAQw/s1600/0_2a04e_ee41b541_L.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494223578685353122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtaVx1KRqof0VfwMb5LAmAWJzOKUNCk5rY7kU4WVX9djkZDLuGMyrDQHOb5uumuzVa0N6bgj-ulbUcNr28fe79tH-AmDGCFuhAF4UItVs_64ZsLBGNSsSOaaCuER_EzRpHj7lPJd5haAQw/s320/0_2a04e_ee41b541_L.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 232px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I read a Russian story once that was used as a metaphor concerning Russian history. The war with France, to be exact.<br />The story spoke of General Hunger and General Winter, who met and spoke, and realized that although both had great power and control over the people of the land, neither could survive or have any effect without the other. I was wondering if you knew of this story? If you can, could you please tell me the name of it and the meaning of the story?</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 78%;">Darryl Tonks, UK<br /></span></div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">Dear Darrel,</span> <span style="font-style: italic;">I don't know the story you are talking about as there are several ones. Frankly, I am not sure they are Russian invention. These metaphoric heroes are often mentioned when one is talking about the war on Russian territory. However, even though they seem to be pure epic invention there had some historical base.</span><br />
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The victory in the <span style="color: #006600; font-weight: bold;">Patriotic War of 1812</span> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_invasion_of_Russia">Invasion of Napoleon's army in Russia</a>) became the subject of many Russian poems, opera's and novels created in XIX century (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_and_Peace"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">remember War & Peace of Mr. Tolstoy</span></a> for example))))<br />
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Indeed Russians were proud of their victory over Napoleon's army but it was <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Davydov"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Denis Davydov</span></a> (the hero of this war) who for the first time claimed that this victory was much helped by <span style="font-weight: bold;">The General Moroz</span> (the General Winter) . Some modern historians object <span style="color: red;">the cold weather</span> axiom of 1812, but this myth was so attractive…<br />
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But historians have no live evidence when the supporters of the <span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">Russian winter</span> horror story have a plenty of it.<br />
Taking over burned to ashes Moscow in September Napoleon Army has faced sabotage of few local people who has not fled Russian capital. Army catering & logistics soon began having food delivery problems as many peasants converted into partisans and fled their villages together with the domestic animals.<br />
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Those regimens who were in French Army avant-guard often burned down unruly villages on its way, thus leaving the rest of the Army without provisions. The situation has worsened as the winter approached.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">BAD STRATEGY LOSSES</span><br />
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Soon as is mentioned in military studies, <span style="font-style: italic;">the main body of Napoleon's Grande Armée, initially at least 378,000 strong, "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Winter">diminished by half during the first eight weeks of his invasion, before the major battle of the campaign. This decrease was partly due to garrisoning supply centers, but disease, desertions, and casualties sustained in various minor actions caused thousands of losses. </a></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Winter"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1fCS6GEs6Ru0z4Zzp6e3b58nyiFUAdi3KnlYx0HukBwqGoucysljKg4Fv_zvM2Y2RYQAmvYiseuMSNk0gidzbXAXowzuldfnoahIdj3m-lokJX_GH5zj1cD0nEXepVvZVtIn6-vV516Ap/s1600/i_003.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494232621056607426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1fCS6GEs6Ru0z4Zzp6e3b58nyiFUAdi3KnlYx0HukBwqGoucysljKg4Fv_zvM2Y2RYQAmvYiseuMSNk0gidzbXAXowzuldfnoahIdj3m-lokJX_GH5zj1cD0nEXepVvZVtIn6-vV516Ap/s320/i_003.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 207px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
It was a humiliation for French Grande Armee to admit that their strategy was not adopted to Russia. Distance, people, traditions were all against them.<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Winter"><span style="font-style: italic;">The sequels were Napoleon's uncontested and self-defeating occupation of Moscow and his humiliating retreat, which began on 19 October, before the first severe frosts later that month and the first snow on 5 November</span> 1812"</a><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">“Almost entire cavalry marches on foot, less than 1/5 of the initial regiment and 100 of horses”,</span> wrote unknown ex-Russian front French soldier in his memories.“<span style="font-style: italic;">Frenchmen perished more from hunger than exhaustion, disorder, robberies and loss of any discipline </span>”, testifies General Kreyts.<br />
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Hunger suddenly became catastrophic. Soon even horse meat was a luxury. This horrible period was described in the memories of Russian General Kreyts who in Moscow suburbs, marching with his regiment, reported hearing weird noises in the forest. After exploring the forest, his people saw French soldiers cutting & eating human meat.<br />
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Commander-in-chief of Russian Army <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kutuzov">General Mikhail Kutuzov</a> wrote to his wife on October 28, 1812:<span style="font-style: italic;"> “<span style="color: red;">Yesterday we found in the forest two French soldiers, who fried and eat their third comrade”. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">BREAKING THE MYTH</span><br />
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So would it be correct to say that General Hunger was much stronger then General Winter? Finally, one or both rapidly helped to destroy French army of 1812.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">Was it a good lesson for war strategy class?...Apparently not, 130 years later in Stalingrad another strong European army tried to test loyal Russian Army Allies: general Winter & General Hunger.</span><br />
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<object height="385" width="480"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1clw3bBBfn4&hl=en_US&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1clw3bBBfn4&hl=en_US&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-90910089344854746282010-06-20T10:26:00.009+02:002010-07-15T21:43:42.052+02:00Hedge funds in Russia<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX4uzDvswkpr_1UATpjtRifBWRCuY-wfsEFTsKOX-79VXTgrM7KbAqdKI25gNs4b63jAqRrhvjUjn41DcDb6vxeQCA9FfEXqhDLIjLwECx5LB-Blp55KC-FrlOIKvcUqgGHRj0cNm6h7HM/s1600/funny-pictures-hedgehog-has-a-coin.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 171px; float: left; height: 200px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487451580629216002" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX4uzDvswkpr_1UATpjtRifBWRCuY-wfsEFTsKOX-79VXTgrM7KbAqdKI25gNs4b63jAqRrhvjUjn41DcDb6vxeQCA9FfEXqhDLIjLwECx5LB-Blp55KC-FrlOIKvcUqgGHRj0cNm6h7HM/s200/funny-pictures-hedgehog-has-a-coin.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Do you have local hedge funds in Russia?<br /></strong></span><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><strong>Asked by Alexander, Paris</strong> </span><br /><br />I'll give you just a brief outlook, as there is a lot to say on this dynamic part of the world economics.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">HISTORY</span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"> & THEORY</span><br /><br />Comparing to the US, where the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Winslow_Jones">first hedge fund was created</a> in 1949, Russia was a <span style="font-style: italic;">late bloomer</span> to provide conditions for operating <a href="http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hedgefund.asp">hedge funds</a>.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIncd6B5G6IyyNn617RX8dzXyodqrhzX66snxQvH1p4A6HSP7rSjApOM1nns93Vh39PgQDFWiN-g1FD3xyFr5akBneus1MJeEABQnEQX89PWs68fvBpBJVdYyiNyVvI1aPG251Gx6klPZY/s1600/header_logo.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 186px; float: right; height: 31px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487453579266168018" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIncd6B5G6IyyNn617RX8dzXyodqrhzX66snxQvH1p4A6HSP7rSjApOM1nns93Vh39PgQDFWiN-g1FD3xyFr5akBneus1MJeEABQnEQX89PWs68fvBpBJVdYyiNyVvI1aPG251Gx6klPZY/s320/header_logo.gif" border="0" /></a><br />Soviet economy didn't believe in trading, so it was only in <span style="font-weight: bold;">1996</span> when the first a hedge fund <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">Diamond Age Russia Fund</span> (with assets of over 20 million dollars) was registered in Russia. As the site of the company says, the fund's <a href="http://www.diamondage.ru/russiafund.htm"><span style="font-style: italic;">investment objective is to generate maximum (absolute) long-term USD capital appreciation through an actively-managed, concentrated, hedged portfolio of Russian and Russia-related securities</span>.</a> Its activity had its ups and downs but the fund has managed to stay on the surface despite of various <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Russian_financial_crisis">events (like local financial crisis of 1998)</a> rocking Russian economy during the last decade. It managed to stay rather unique on the market for a long time but since economy always looks to maximize the profit....many of those investors who were restraining from investing in Russian economy before looking at the performance results quickly considered a change in their plans. Since mid of 2000-s investments in Russian showed stable returns and immediately the country was considered by those funds whose investment strategy was based on investing in highly risky but also highly profitable emerging markets economies <a href="http://richard-wilson.blogspot.com/2008/02/emerging-markets-hedge-funds.html">(up to 25% of return comparing to 11% of other types of hedge fund strategies) . </a><br />As you can see from the table below almost all hedge funds (with Emerging Markets investment strategy) in 2009 over performed the previous year (first column 2009 results, second column 2008)<br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjajMqh8NoheJ0ZdGmsqaoDdnd-srbs0HXTkYBSSSFKm2SNjFW5H2Yf88KrRYZ_mGpuesZn5mU7NulkAwBymDZcV6hcrWO9bzxghvpvL-h1oRFvmtLxSV2ubEFkW1lNpanFEkYp-z8YwVD/s1600/Em_EE.jpg"><img style="text-align: center; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; display: block; height: 111px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487464160994143298" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjajMqh8NoheJ0ZdGmsqaoDdnd-srbs0HXTkYBSSSFKm2SNjFW5H2Yf88KrRYZ_mGpuesZn5mU7NulkAwBymDZcV6hcrWO9bzxghvpvL-h1oRFvmtLxSV2ubEFkW1lNpanFEkYp-z8YwVD/s400/Em_EE.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Experts suggest that last years Emerging markets hedge funds drew in over $9bn in new assets. This is more than was investing in this area 5 years ago when only <span style="color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">$3.3bn was put into these types of hedge funds.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">LEGAL BASE FOR HEDGE FUND IN RUSSIA</span><br /><br />According <a href="http://fintimes.km.ru/ekonomika-rossii/khedzh-fond/9304">to Russian legislation</a> published in <span style="font-weight: bold;">2007 </span>(Federal Law of the Russian Federation "On the Securities Market" and Federal Law of the Russian Federation "On the Investnment funds"), the <span style="font-style: italic;">hedge-fund i<span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">s an investment partnership which can invest in not only securities (actions, bonds, etc.), but also in derivatives (options, futures), precious metals, as well as very risky investments, such as, for example, purchase of football club or objects of art. </span></span><br />These funds operating in Russia must be managed by professional professional managers or operating companies which obtained a license of Russian Federation.<br />Thus the asset's structure of Russian hedge-funds is determined by local legislation, as well as who can be considered eligible for to become investor of a hedge fund:<br /><br /><ul><li><span style="font-style: italic;">One who owns securities and (or) other financial tools of total cost no less than 3mn RUR;</span></li><li><span style="font-style: italic;">One who has an operational experience in Russian and (or) foreign company which worked with securities and (or) derivatives;</span> </li><li><span style="font-style: italic;">Performed quarterly within last 4 quarters not less than 10 deals with securities and (or) other financial tools which cumulative price for specified time has been not less than 300 thousand RUR, or concluded within last 3 years not less than 5 deals with securities and (or) other financial tools which cumulative price has made not less than 3 million RUR.</span></li></ul><p>The most important criteria of abowe list is the last one - a prove to have necessary funds at the investor's disposal.<br /><br />Of cause it will be unfair to say that hedge funds are easily accepted to work on Russian territory. Recent events during the process against local lawyer of London-based <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/investmenttrusts/7536112/Russia-seeks-arrest-of-Hermitage-hedge-fund-executive.html">Hermitage Capital Management</a> fund (who died in prison waiting for the trial) showed that Russian legal system is still vulnerable and confirmed that Russia is a real emerging market country with all following consequences and constrains.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">NOWADAYS</span><br /><br />As for today there are <strong><span style="color: rgb(51, 0, 51);">6 hedge funds</span></strong> operating in Russia.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNCQmprZfRh68ln3L0jpW9f0in66lbeOXXtN652-qwwvg19ercJ3yb15If3Zzn4wV-ETrJNRWdC0nD3qsJCMH_vWMaKE9qMm8pkVQ82b5WbEPBJndMpylq-E3OgVluCtUrfK6y3nJKUi4/s1600/pq2-header.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 320px; float: right; height: 45px; cursor: pointer;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5487487186324534674" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNCQmprZfRh68ln3L0jpW9f0in66lbeOXXtN652-qwwvg19ercJ3yb15If3Zzn4wV-ETrJNRWdC0nD3qsJCMH_vWMaKE9qMm8pkVQ82b5WbEPBJndMpylq-E3OgVluCtUrfK6y3nJKUi4/s320/pq2-header.png" border="0" /></a><br />One of which is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Prosperity Capital management</span> (from top 30 European hedge funds classification) which currently has <a href="http://www.prosperitycapital.com/funds%7E416.aspx">$4.1 bn </a>under management and owns shares of many Russian and ex-USSR companies.<br /></p><p>The others have less assets under management but they definitely will try to profit from post-crisis economy recovery.<br /></p><p><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">And finally...REAL JAMES BOND GIRL</span></p><p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR2CIuKGR1Jn2V_XCHFZB8cRsaHWyTKC676crSfWp-UAlLoHpKodmjZCIOqWWoW9boNfVVY-uUE-lTGGzQMNlpS8NLSxejK157hyLq7ENF_G-OOi_cWSzviZbXUWC4ChiNtr-rmUbsVQcz/s1600/30278_125506074134934_100000266255891_252877_4701130_n.1277825231.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 157px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR2CIuKGR1Jn2V_XCHFZB8cRsaHWyTKC676crSfWp-UAlLoHpKodmjZCIOqWWoW9boNfVVY-uUE-lTGGzQMNlpS8NLSxejK157hyLq7ENF_G-OOi_cWSzviZbXUWC4ChiNtr-rmUbsVQcz/s320/30278_125506074134934_100000266255891_252877_4701130_n.1277825231.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5494220527735507170" border="0" /></a></p><p>The shortage of local hedge funds are definitely compensated by the interest of local people ))))))....or those who are concerned by business intelligence (like recently (June 2010) accused of spying in Russia's favor US based <a href="http://www.finalternatives.com/node/13115">personal assistant of the CEO of London-based hedge fund Navigator Asset Management Advisers, Ms.Anna Chapman</a>, for example) <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><span style="font-size:78%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQLJh-41jhDfrchog0fb_AUve1t9ZlZA4-vKFaGwZhETweVD4D0JW896VfWauJpHLUWbkVKo0y3xCOqoY1TXZYp1dalakxCe_Ww-lYywuUTnF_xskoQIutfdqv8KWJ8UpiH-_PFkrhTBR3/s1600/long-short%2520equity%2520hedge%2520funds.jpg"><br /></a></span>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-48186127470380012702010-06-03T23:32:00.013+02:002015-08-20T17:16:12.882+02:00Russian business ethics<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNnuwILb8B4BxQsIu-10Hjh3KQZt3lw6UG_55M87b_OMbUEb9TgIzvaD0Ln8-MKxCmoWcGRwPVdAG0R5slCwG7u6s73v17JaazgWfyjQffzFSvwM5FkjHY4Bwa9GlpybgM4OQ_U7fMnJP/s1600/index.php.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5478274298771488050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaNnuwILb8B4BxQsIu-10Hjh3KQZt3lw6UG_55M87b_OMbUEb9TgIzvaD0Ln8-MKxCmoWcGRwPVdAG0R5slCwG7u6s73v17JaazgWfyjQffzFSvwM5FkjHY4Bwa9GlpybgM4OQ_U7fMnJP/s200/index.php.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 134px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a>I am a student (business school to be more precise, based in Paris) and I am working on an oral presentation. The real topic is "How to do business with Russian people". Your blog helped me to know some of the habits that you have in this country. But I was just wondering if you could give me a hand on "the do's and dont's" with Russian people, especially in an business context.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />And if you are aware about what a foreigner has to do before enter the country, I will be very grateful!</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Asked by Naima, Paris</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">Dear Naima, I had to do a big research to answer your question...and am sure there is a lot to mention. So to meet the expectation of a business school student, I'll try to be short (<span style="font-style: italic;">PowerPoint presentation style</span>?))<br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Some practical advice is given below although the majority would be applicable for many other countries (!). <span style="color: red;">However, the expectation to see the Western model working in Russia like in other European countries could bring nothing but troubles.</span></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #33cc00; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Be patient</span>.<o:p></o:p> </span><st1:country-region><st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB">It's known that “time is money”. As a result, Western businessmen are often impatient. They love to check the cost of time. In </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Russia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">, this, to a certain extent, is an unlimited resource. <span style="color: #cc33cc; font-weight: bold;">Patience is the major Russian virtue</span> so Russians are accustomed to waiting for what they want. Foreigners, who expect a quick conclusion of a transaction can be really disappointed. </span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">Be ready to meet Russian managers who often </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">have </span><span style="color: #33cc00; font-style: italic;">dual ethics.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> It is necessary to understand the difference between “</span><span style="font-style: italic;">our</span><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 100%;">s</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">” and “</span><span style="font-style: italic;">theirs</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">”. Some studies in this area explain: “<span style="font-style: italic;">As a rule, managers have the highest ethical standards in the circle of their personal connections (“<span style="color: red;">our</span>”), but at th</span></span><span style="font-style: italic;">e same time the same people can easily violate all ethical standards with respect to “theirs” (be dishonest, violate obligations, break agreements).</span>"</li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #33cc00; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Respect is everything.</span> Avoid impersonal messages. After obtaining a proposal on paper Russians can put it on hold ( “<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">to mature</span>”) and wait for personal contact. They assume that those who have no time to drop by obviously don't take the offer seriously.</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #33cc00; font-style: italic;">Build personal relations</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #33cc00; font-style: italic;">hip</span>s. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Russians </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">entrust personal relations more than contracts. </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Remember commercial laws and contracts do not mean</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> as much</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Russia </span></st1:place></st1:country-region></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><st1:country-region><st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB">as in the West. </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Some consultants working with Russians specify that detailed contracts often follow an oral agreement concluded during an informal meeting. (<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">Is is really typical just for Russians?</span>)</span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #33cc00; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Use local consultants</span>.</span> Many business rules have changed since the early 1990s when the first businessmen put their foot on this "terre inconnue".</span><st1:country-region><st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Knowledge of the Russian language and experience in the local environment play an important role. </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Consequently, it is better to have a local consultant than an expat.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Remember, <span style="color: #33cc00; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">business ethics are different</span>. </span><st1:country-region><st1:place></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB">For example, "offers" considered by Americans as <em>presents</em>, </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Russia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">are considered </span><span lang="EN-GB">as <em>the means for building relationship</em>. Although explicit bribes are illegal in foreign firms, <em>symbolic gifts</em> are usually legal. Such symbols as a rule, </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">are </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">more important than monetary “gifts”, although a certain “tariff” can be necessary for bureaucrats to advance paperwork.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: #33cc00; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Emphasize exclusiveness.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> Russians prefer <span style="font-style: italic;">exceptional </span>relationship. Foreigners frequently share financial information with competitors hoping to conclude more successful transaction. Russians, however, </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">rarely </span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">do so.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Expectations of Russians</span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Russians can overestimate the interest of an investor in the Russian market, while foreigners are really only examining potential possibilities.</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Time management</span><o:p style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></o:p><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Your Russian partners can have overloaded and badly planned agendas, which simply reflect the real state of affairs concerning time management in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span lang="EN-GB">Russia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang="EN-GB">. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />Advantages</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Russians can expect both organizational and personal advantages from negotiations. This means that those who lead negotiations can look for some personal benefits. <span style="font-style: italic;">(Will my personal financial and official situations change? Will there be any trips and other perks for me?)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Negotiations</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><br />Thoroughly select your delegation. <o:p></o:p>Age and status are very important as well as gender, by the way. Women and young managers have a harder time gain the trust of Russian managers. Naturally, Russians prefer to deal with those who occupy important positions. Negotiations with junior representatives are received, at best as temporary and impersonal, and, at worst, they can be considered insulting.</span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglDoILVvoxdS-HYDjgRBAn2y9XbdbFzMo-G8BekW7OAbZH35jtSneiworapCrjXIwka_5a3bCPF_FTh0KtBvCjYl_7sGuXJzsILQHWot1zVzyL6eA9axQWYQakfOTB9WqUFFz-06ONJlOC/s1600/f4248.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479025694053310818" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglDoILVvoxdS-HYDjgRBAn2y9XbdbFzMo-G8BekW7OAbZH35jtSneiworapCrjXIwka_5a3bCPF_FTh0KtBvCjYl_7sGuXJzsILQHWot1zVzyL6eA9axQWYQakfOTB9WqUFFz-06ONJlOC/s200/f4248.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 162px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br />Cultural<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">Even if many Russian businessmen have studied abroad and traveled around the world, people can still underestimate international cultural differences.<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span lang="EN-GB">And last but not least. Be ready to drink ))). It is common in Russia spend long hours at working dinners (But I guess, you read about this Russian tradition before from other sources))))</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #009900;"><span style="font-style: italic;">P.S. To answer your last question, I have to invite you to read my introduction note )))))<br />Do a little bit of home work, please Google Russian entry visa information!</span></span><br />
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Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-56973823972832304982010-05-25T23:14:00.011+02:002010-06-03T15:32:15.288+02:00"Marry a Russian girl "<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGNeK98YfUeOJA_xE-fN4fekG2nL_W-ns9KSfyHnXfx56pSu72Ki7qiozDNhB5Wkc02lgtIGq1hsVoVZNjVZ9_7fcgxRyDFfa6EdkfdnNYPVAFLObFbVmDE-0PvRHPcy9jmkIAU7LSX9G/s1600/3969-untitled.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475320205226560338" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 208px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIGNeK98YfUeOJA_xE-fN4fekG2nL_W-ns9KSfyHnXfx56pSu72Ki7qiozDNhB5Wkc02lgtIGq1hsVoVZNjVZ9_7fcgxRyDFfa6EdkfdnNYPVAFLObFbVmDE-0PvRHPcy9jmkIAU7LSX9G/s320/3969-untitled.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold;font-size:78%;" >In year 2008, a book fair was held at New Delhi where there was a special stall for Russian books. There I met with a Russian craftsmen. We talked for sometime and I asked him about literature of Fyodor Dostyovasky and Leo Tolstoy.<br />Apart from there names, he didn't know much. He introduced me to his family, he gave me his phone no and address in Kazan.<br />At the time of departure he advised me to "visit Russia and marry a Russian girl?". Listening the word "marriage" I became suspicious and left from there.<br /><br />But this incident keeps on rolling in my mind to this day. Can you tell or interpret what possibly might have been the intent of that person.<br /><br />Asked by Sanju, India</span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(136,136,136)font-size:78%;" ><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-size:100%;" ><br />Dear Sanju</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-size:100%;" >, </span><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />Of cause I cant get into the mind of another man but somehow, judging from the your letter, I would not worry about the mean intentions of this craftsmen, who (I bet) is happy in his marriage ))))) I am sure he meant well proposing you to visit Russia and marry a Russian girl.<br /></span><span style="TEXT-DECORATION: underline;font-size:100%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNy1OU4fvoZRPwFw4S3v7WcgcP19wpBQfmkQsUFLiT6MTf3kyeK2mG-W8EZHsEKEDNaK4f4_fdRwa_AYE-KVlUsQ2du0rEBXfYLNIbwIdDFpmdp9FnpPJU7ujYrpcZoX3VPlarl7PmFgfk/s1600/22resizeze4.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475325296637399842" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNy1OU4fvoZRPwFw4S3v7WcgcP19wpBQfmkQsUFLiT6MTf3kyeK2mG-W8EZHsEKEDNaK4f4_fdRwa_AYE-KVlUsQ2du0rEBXfYLNIbwIdDFpmdp9FnpPJU7ujYrpcZoX3VPlarl7PmFgfk/s320/22resizeze4.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></span><span style="COLOR: rgb(136,136,136);font-size:100%;" ><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">I am afraid it will be unfair to the great girls of other nations and will sound like pure marriage agency advertisement, if I list here all qualities of Russian wives ))))... The prove is that there are many of them happily married to Indian men.</span><br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">I can only advise you ....<em>listen to your heart</em> when it comes to choosing your future wife ))</span><br /><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(0,153,0); FONT-STYLE: italic">P.S. Maybe you should just go to visit Russia...and not thinking about meeting a girl but just to see a land of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. )) Think about it!</span><br /><br /></span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(136,136,136)font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-30199358904953896722010-05-24T11:10:00.036+02:002015-08-20T16:18:52.680+02:00Russians are Europeans ...or not?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM97kZ5cB7J_oaEnXPPKPFRTSSpq_i9EHIpKMK_5Ph9zlzt2qmTEVOqhjbjhR4SkkhqRMyS87xMEVuz_bs7lZ__GflM0WiHKPUsgXUoDSK-BMYfKjg1fExPSDQnKiM-_Y3u14nyW5D_llD/s1600/541px-Europe_%2528orthographic_projection%2529.svg.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474889672081091586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM97kZ5cB7J_oaEnXPPKPFRTSSpq_i9EHIpKMK_5Ph9zlzt2qmTEVOqhjbjhR4SkkhqRMyS87xMEVuz_bs7lZ__GflM0WiHKPUsgXUoDSK-BMYfKjg1fExPSDQnKiM-_Y3u14nyW5D_llD/s200/541px-Europe_%2528orthographic_projection%2529.svg.png" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkDWvlPubm47FcB4BQNnsWl391PJJcdhRV16oZx7pn77u2JmozWEkpYRdh21tLuWhUaBfi22vI4ENnfNGqpPq2n-Unf6vW3PuMSq-gfZq2xjDdmJXy2OvoGPNnKm5ZpS38eFE4XESSXp5/s1600/tzar8qq.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474770322416152498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXkDWvlPubm47FcB4BQNnsWl391PJJcdhRV16oZx7pn77u2JmozWEkpYRdh21tLuWhUaBfi22vI4ENnfNGqpPq2n-Unf6vW3PuMSq-gfZq2xjDdmJXy2OvoGPNnKm5ZpS38eFE4XESSXp5/s200/tzar8qq.gif" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 100px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 100px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;">Are Russians Europeans or not?<br /><br />Asked by Om Pratap, New Delhi</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Dear Om,<br /><br />Despite the apparent simplicity of your questions ...the answer always causes major geopolitical debate inside and outside Russia....<br /><br />I am sure there are plenty of dissertations written on the description of <span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic;">who- can-be-considered-real-Europeans.-Those-who-are-born-on-the-territory-or-those-who-are-born-from-the-local-parents-etc</span>.... </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">depending on the side taken </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">your question, when it comes to Russia, can have both possible answers.<br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">Russians as nationality - yes)....Russians as citizens of Russian Federation - please read below ))))))))</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">AXIOM</span><br /><br />When it comes to pure mathematical approach and calculation based on math and geography the omniscient Wiki says: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia">"<span style="font-style: italic;">Russia is by far the </span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" style="font-style: italic;" title="List of countries and outlying territories by total area">largest country in the world</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia"><span style="font-style: italic;">, covering more than a ninth of the </span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" style="font-style: italic;" title="Earth">Earth</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia"><span style="font-style: italic;">'s land area. Russia is also the </span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" style="font-style: italic;" title="List of countries by population">ninth most populous nation in the world</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia"> with 142 million people.<span style="font-style: italic;"> It extends across the whole of northern Asia and 40% of Europe, spanning </span></a><a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" style="font-style: italic;" title="Time zones by country">9 time zones</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> and incorporating a wide range of environments and landforms</span>". It could be only added that Europe here is considered as a continent (like Africa, Australia, etc) with a total territory of <span style="font-weight: bold;">10 392 855 km2</span>.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">However even if <span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">79,3 % </span>of the population of Russian Federation lives on the territory of the European part of Russia </span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">it would be a way too easy to think that this fact makes Russian population Europeans.<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">HISTORICAL ARGUMENTS or "TAUGHT STUFF"</span><br /></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-qglIIb8TzJyci1OgF2_HunRElyCm54bZWj9-F3Dj6yoThecMrv8LWx61YEjjbXa8ZE1WnKo6ABLOt4uVdorH3BUdmz__Utyd5YXeCBNoshalffLE7QpjTkC3s0b6x2ZugXaqpnIqGw2/s1600/275px-Eggink_VelKnVladimir.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474901475592285842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2-qglIIb8TzJyci1OgF2_HunRElyCm54bZWj9-F3Dj6yoThecMrv8LWx61YEjjbXa8ZE1WnKo6ABLOt4uVdorH3BUdmz__Utyd5YXeCBNoshalffLE7QpjTkC3s0b6x2ZugXaqpnIqGw2/s320/275px-Eggink_VelKnVladimir.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 196px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 275px;" /></a><br />
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<span style="color: black;">Even if the territories of restless East Slavs (ancestors of modern Russians, Ukrainians, and Belorussians) caused a lot of headache to late Roman Empire, it was far and away from major European events until 957 when the most influential local Russian Prince Vladimir sent</span> his envoys to study the religions of various neighboring nations.<br />
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Suddenly, these far pagan territories promised new income and people to various geopolitical parties.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus%27"><span style="color: black;">Thus, Russian Sovereign chose </span></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="color: black;" title="Christianity">Christianity</a><span style="color: black;">. </span><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_I,_Prince_of_Kiev"><span style="color: black;">However, the somber churches of the Germans didn't correspond his taste</span><span style="color: black;">. It was at </span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_I,_Prince_of_Kiev" style="color: red;" title="Hagia Sophia">Saint Sophia (Constantinople)</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_I,_Prince_of_Kiev"><span style="color: black;">, where the colorful ritual of the Byzantine Church was conducted to impress them, so he</span></a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_I,_Prince_of_Kiev"><span style="color: black;"> found what he was looking for: </span><i>"We no longer knew whether we were in heaven or on earth"</i>. </a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_I,_Prince_of_Kiev" style="color: #009900;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-style: italic;">If Prince Vladimir was impressed by what saw his envoys, he was yet more impressed by political gains of the Byzantine alliance. </span></span></a><br />
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THUS BECOMING OFFICIALLY CHRISTIAN, RUSSIA became ally of ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL EUROPEAN STATES, EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE.</div>
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<span style="color: black;">Well, sharing religion doesn't make people the same and it was until much later (17 century) when <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Peter the Great</span> after his own "reality check" had to admit that sometimes </span><span style="color: black;">progress </span><span style="color: black;">has to be forced in Russia.<br /><br />Among various changes in State structure (NEW CAPITAL - ST.PETERSBOURG - named by Peter the Great <span style="color: #3333ff; font-style: italic;">"WINDOW TO EUROPE</span>") his reforms included changes in social and everyday life:</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg8P_nshAZ_ej-7tKvrSbIF1N6EyblOmtmzhMdEH6RCRBoSuJOUFD7vtCteZbPU949VyrWldFJdR9g-oBZ5jVcofacIqcZffb4tt4J2lmWRwF4R4bvOmmpLyKiX84BW1zh1Xy0c4mfm8El/s1600/ad176db92ee1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476030183822253522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg8P_nshAZ_ej-7tKvrSbIF1N6EyblOmtmzhMdEH6RCRBoSuJOUFD7vtCteZbPU949VyrWldFJdR9g-oBZ5jVcofacIqcZffb4tt4J2lmWRwF4R4bvOmmpLyKiX84BW1zh1Xy0c4mfm8El/s200/ad176db92ee1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 148px;" /></a><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: red;">NO BEARDS,<br />NO BULKY</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: red;">DRESSES FOR WOMEN,<br />EUROPEAN EDUCATION FOR SONS OF THE NOBILITY...</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #33cc00; font-size: 100%;"> </span><br /><br />All of this was implemented on not<span style="font-style: italic;"> a negotiable basis</span> (as often it was done in Russia))))).<span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /><br />He wanted Russia to become part of Europe...and</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> he made her become such</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 100%; font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-style: italic;">MODERN TIMES</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzV6Uug6CTs-T318yntJdhPup5Nv5nuDQNFUVwn-pt9tJZLPx3W0arWzxWjVK0nxG49niPO7xjVaC6aasJR9ZxefXcP8EfWWO3cA2DiUFmTGD3jTzAyS-KYSL3XDX_noqAU41Zd8ycqlns/s1600/43fd488e9d25.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474942548275314626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzV6Uug6CTs-T318yntJdhPup5Nv5nuDQNFUVwn-pt9tJZLPx3W0arWzxWjVK0nxG49niPO7xjVaC6aasJR9ZxefXcP8EfWWO3cA2DiUFmTGD3jTzAyS-KYSL3XDX_noqAU41Zd8ycqlns/s200/43fd488e9d25.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 142px;" /></a></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">Having said all of that, it will be <span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">extremely</span> unfair to a long and complicated Russian history to say that Russians are Europeans by historical determination.<br /><br />If you have read my previous posts you must have already noticed that many of Russian traditions are similar to those of other nations and nationalities of <span style="color: #009900;">not <span style="font-weight: bold;">European origin</span></span> (<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">read Caucasus, Siberia, Far East</span>) Besides, our last official census of 2002 has showed that <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">182</span> different nationalities are living on the territory of Russian Federation.</span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg7yUpW4eXhC9tbb-F5CVPjiHPukGNqDy88zdklKL2r_79Of3UE5ABsEPyb-WJhMBGb7A0Zab3eteg0u66kBAHpXY0NnyhyphenhyphenjESggw12MGXzfC6FLYfW7UJGSfXPWEzFTmRcsUQ11VtCscP/s1600/1256799640_lena.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474944085781488002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg7yUpW4eXhC9tbb-F5CVPjiHPukGNqDy88zdklKL2r_79Of3UE5ABsEPyb-WJhMBGb7A0Zab3eteg0u66kBAHpXY0NnyhyphenhyphenjESggw12MGXzfC6FLYfW7UJGSfXPWEzFTmRcsUQ11VtCscP/s200/1256799640_lena.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 150px;" /></a></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: #006600; font-style: italic;">They live, mix, get married, share same habits and history.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">GETTING SENTIMENTAL or RUSSIAN SOUL</span><br /><br />If I may allow myself a little sentimental comment here.<br /><br />In my humble opinion, the biggest mistake people make when dealing with Russians is just treating them like any other European nation, forgetting the complexity of the territory, size and history. That is why later on when one gets disappointed or his illusions get broken, he tends to generalize and make quick conclusions.</span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3CcstFFBlI-Qq0egoalvzJgeLHD8MqBBGaUzBaP7caHum1eGtCVbqM2TTYFyIILP7vCk8ws3L7loY3j3eu67nihBRj-3DIh6En9K4bS0XHH3XuOqn-H5wob0jig4H6DpzKGwTgfTXyPwA/s1600/14355002_3a9e4bd88392afe76fe5d61b9436a28a1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5475308829379027042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3CcstFFBlI-Qq0egoalvzJgeLHD8MqBBGaUzBaP7caHum1eGtCVbqM2TTYFyIILP7vCk8ws3L7loY3j3eu67nihBRj-3DIh6En9K4bS0XHH3XuOqn-H5wob0jig4H6DpzKGwTgfTXyPwA/s200/14355002_3a9e4bd88392afe76fe5d61b9436a28a1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 113px;" /></a></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">I am sure many problems could have been avoided if behind our European (or Asian) looks people could see mysterious echo of Asian, Middle Eastern, European behavioral traces mixed up with enormous distance and common historical "good and bad"...or simply what others call "<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">Russian soul</span><span style="color: red;">" </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: red;">(which can really ache, trust my word!) </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #006600;"><span class="huge" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">P.S. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: courier new;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: #006600;"><span class="huge" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">So </span></span></span><span style="color: #006600;"><span class="bodybold"><span style="font-style: italic;">Sir Winston Churchill did get it at the end saying</span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: #006600;"><span class="huge" style="color: #33cc00; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: courier new;">:</span> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: #006600;"><span class="huge" style="color: #33cc00; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" ))))</span> </span><span class="bodybold"><span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"></span><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"></span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"></span></span>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-51875157841885442372010-05-01T14:37:00.010+02:002010-05-15T18:39:48.885+02:00Fair trade in Russia<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZmg5tpmXRLJTw54mIXinVbCj5s8US-s-Yl3_AX_IX5Uk9y-IwdfDB1Gp5nNRAUBBdVNd8TtbTXxTn-y5nA9-Em3gJaDOQCxzLdbtw8-t_oLlnPDzjYZF8IwMqLt2J8g-WsF34r4EYm6Ee/s1600/CAE3GXQZ.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466289229624475186" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 139px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 82px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZmg5tpmXRLJTw54mIXinVbCj5s8US-s-Yl3_AX_IX5Uk9y-IwdfDB1Gp5nNRAUBBdVNd8TtbTXxTn-y5nA9-Em3gJaDOQCxzLdbtw8-t_oLlnPDzjYZF8IwMqLt2J8g-WsF34r4EYm6Ee/s200/CAE3GXQZ.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">My daughter is doing a global challenge on Russia for her beaver scouts badge. We have searched all over the internet to no avail. Can you please tell me the countryside code for Russia also what fair trade products do Russia produce? </span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br /> Asked by Gemma </span></span><br /><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-STYLE: italic">BASIC</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-qIAGGDETnO2ovimlfV8Xoz5S6shW-g98llL68fc1y_FDhA9rsGBohXrm3pNuQfv5RjZONSboGZ7NzKcl5jdxx-yQMgClx_0BvutEWdygWGi99r0YTrRb8g3jycVySIOWWOAbKFxbRoz/s1600/17596.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466284942177499186" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 112px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu-qIAGGDETnO2ovimlfV8Xoz5S6shW-g98llL68fc1y_FDhA9rsGBohXrm3pNuQfv5RjZONSboGZ7NzKcl5jdxx-yQMgClx_0BvutEWdygWGi99r0YTrRb8g3jycVySIOWWOAbKFxbRoz/s200/17596.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade">Fair trade</a> as social movement in Russia is almost non-existent and consists, on the one hand, of few separate active workers and small groups, and on the other is presented by some manufacturers (for example Clipper, Qi-Teas )<br />I had never seen any fair trade labels on any locally produced item bought in Russia.<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0); FONT-STYLE: italic">Could it be explained by the fact that Russia is not considering itself as a third world producer! It definitely doesn't look like one. <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">(Your daughter will confirm it after the visit ))))</span></span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgHwtgrHzQZFCRHKybpQiDPxiQAAcoMLPEiGnUSGg_ZkOH5cK3QZaHeXKvr2nNlVwGdlCcXb16bFxccRx_7cXuyS_oNkFY6JhP1hi83TsMjhyphenhyphenr3nxlUxFW22giUDLJOJr_sQxo98mgLim9/s1600/02_05_00.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466284558426195426" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 130px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgHwtgrHzQZFCRHKybpQiDPxiQAAcoMLPEiGnUSGg_ZkOH5cK3QZaHeXKvr2nNlVwGdlCcXb16bFxccRx_7cXuyS_oNkFY6JhP1hi83TsMjhyphenhyphenr3nxlUxFW22giUDLJOJr_sQxo98mgLim9/s200/02_05_00.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Having said that, if you take a look at the basic list of products usually covered by fair trade initiative among <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">coffee, tea, bananas, chocolate, rice, cocoa, honey, clap, wine, fresh fruit, spices....</span>I can only think of <span style="COLOR: rgb(255,0,0)">fresh fruits, honey and spices</span> which could be covered by the program.<br /><br /><span style="COLOR: rgb(51,204,0);font-size:85%;" ><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">P.S.</span><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"> Unfortunately, the country code of Russian Federation is impossible to find (if any). I'll add it if I find it.</span></span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglZ81YzhFqb4oc2ocgHAZhfZbL6TbrGE2Fqd_uylYCvrmdDT1lHTff6ub5YDi_Jvpn94yG7dl-AR9qk8ZV9XS-MuQLOLmUgmGB0DZt-Nv7uJTfXVn-ncd6lzqJFvT2bPpIs41d8SaGKSne/s1600/DSCF7484_hf_hf.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466281298837022690" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglZ81YzhFqb4oc2ocgHAZhfZbL6TbrGE2Fqd_uylYCvrmdDT1lHTff6ub5YDi_Jvpn94yG7dl-AR9qk8ZV9XS-MuQLOLmUgmGB0DZt-Nv7uJTfXVn-ncd6lzqJFvT2bPpIs41d8SaGKSne/s200/DSCF7484_hf_hf.jpg" border="0" /></a>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-78743007732060151352010-04-27T17:37:00.011+02:002012-05-31T08:21:28.377+02:00Choice of Russians: Mr.Darwin vs. God?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV5DEFymrjRIt4iiyohwBInkrFpQrrPbn9zEApi6xLs56nCgq5yaSZpt4UKB0fiCxshz1SVxogpcQWYv2DlpTMaz7OzgqWqSFNNJ4RaCpwlcA6cD2p5f1xCMbA7bzYmfjfKyLRmXfr4gXe/s1600/IMG_0019.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466430569045407906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV5DEFymrjRIt4iiyohwBInkrFpQrrPbn9zEApi6xLs56nCgq5yaSZpt4UKB0fiCxshz1SVxogpcQWYv2DlpTMaz7OzgqWqSFNNJ4RaCpwlcA6cD2p5f1xCMbA7bzYmfjfKyLRmXfr4gXe/s200/IMG_0019.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2amWHx1wu-kOsaJRW1LwEU9P-jna9WgN1JFzJmBsK9xUkzZyjHFwKzRsSVKfXEQ-L-_2PDGqy8w6ZDNXZv4orLDP02CgbAtwQ9ejWu4_09lnznYGGJaqbkRA7MBPu9W4KUfiwc_ZizRoO/s1600/77.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466429895051765906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2amWHx1wu-kOsaJRW1LwEU9P-jna9WgN1JFzJmBsK9xUkzZyjHFwKzRsSVKfXEQ-L-_2PDGqy8w6ZDNXZv4orLDP02CgbAtwQ9ejWu4_09lnznYGGJaqbkRA7MBPu9W4KUfiwc_ZizRoO/s200/77.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a> <span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;">I read something recently that the majority of Russians do not believe in evolution.<br />First of all, I was wondering if this is true? </span><span style="font-size: 78%;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;">Secondly, I thought this to be interesting, especially since the United States is more known for extremist views on the issue as well as a traditional pension for listening to crazy as a valid way to run a society. However, I thought that since Russia (for nearly a century, anyway) has been known as a secular government and Soviet times emphasized science (please, correct me if I'm wrong) they would be more inclined towards Darwinism. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;">Do you think there are more creationists in Russia than people who believe in evolution, and how do you think this affects the society at large?</span><span style="font-size: 78%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;">Asked by Marie, USA</span><span style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;"><br />Serious question demanded serious research...et voila!<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">HISTORY</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHc8pjjEib2GsKOC15sEzMoTPbbfkvIP6ImXRynNwtcSGU7XVG7gnlS0RQdwYXx5fzdP_0ia6TGtyg1f5TQOxXNP8mbeKSjJXgrU5tzyv19IAsN-OXcVm3gdVTa9SMbFF-7T7b9tfXL5lY/s1600/34bordugov_pic3.jpg" style="color: red;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458998425838497666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHc8pjjEib2GsKOC15sEzMoTPbbfkvIP6ImXRynNwtcSGU7XVG7gnlS0RQdwYXx5fzdP_0ia6TGtyg1f5TQOxXNP8mbeKSjJXgrU5tzyv19IAsN-OXcVm3gdVTa9SMbFF-7T7b9tfXL5lY/s200/34bordugov_pic3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 150px;" /></a></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">It</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> is true that Russia is a secular State since <span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">Ja</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">nuary 23rd, 1918.</span><br />One of the <a href="http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%90%C5%BE%C3%91%E2%80%9A%C3%90%C2%B4%C3%90%C2%B5%C3%90%C2%BB%C3%90%C2%B5%C3%90%C2%BD%C3%90%C2%B8%C3%90%C2%B5_%C3%91%E2%80%A0%C3%90%C2%B5%C3%91%E2%82%AC%C3%90%C2%BA%C3%90%C2%B2%C3%90%C2%B8_%C3%90%C2%BE%C3%91%E2%80%9A_%C3%90%C2%B3%C3%90%C2%BE%C3%91%C2%81%C3%91%C6%92%C3%90%C2%B4%C3%90%C2%B0%C3%91%E2%82%AC%C3%91%C2%81%C3%91%E2%80%9A%C3%90%C2%B2%C3%90%C2%B0">first decrees</a> adopted by young Soviet State was separating the State and official Church. The separation was not just proclaimed but also implemented by all possible means</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> (elimination of influential people included). </span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;"></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />Soviet schools received the order to teach Darwin theory as a part of biology course and always did so. Soviet science was there to prove that God had not influence on the life of new society, where religion was considered as para-science or superstition. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1XtuDeZz9BcS3RTMqF1AIpoEEIAa5Bq7sH31KeqWNo5ltwIP3S6IBIBThdKjCt4cqFxSpv8TwqCibTE_a7Na1MO09ek_teZInCW9tIvAzxn12mYQtdJASVnGPlSUguAXztB9YHNuR_FT3/s1600/ww2-59.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459005565298578770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1XtuDeZz9BcS3RTMqF1AIpoEEIAa5Bq7sH31KeqWNo5ltwIP3S6IBIBThdKjCt4cqFxSpv8TwqCibTE_a7Na1MO09ek_teZInCW9tIvAzxn12mYQtdJASVnGPlSUguAXztB9YHNuR_FT3/s200/ww2-59.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 145px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">However, we all know that people, in general, don't necessarily agree with the official point of view ...and especially during the difficult times.<br />It was extremely ambitious plan of the Soviet state to erase religion from the life of its citizens and control their minds and souls...but the beginning of the World War II </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">in 1941 </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">proved that not all wishes come true...even when it was Stalin who wished.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSeSQXa-n9Fg5yC2DbIagKARAtDQA3TTh0XkCK127j52CQ7ykG3DcExALxswxfuKAKIet1LPgcmgxgPLOOEfrCqic66LhUrSECvTQZ3Tep3iRRpB_93-oS7eYZ7QOH3KOUu8yl2KwKdaO/s1600/1238420254_4.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459003861319282034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSeSQXa-n9Fg5yC2DbIagKARAtDQA3TTh0XkCK127j52CQ7ykG3DcExALxswxfuKAKIet1LPgcmgxgPLOOEfrCqic66LhUrSECvTQZ3Tep3iRRpB_93-oS7eYZ7QOH3KOUu8yl2KwKdaO/s200/1238420254_4.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 124px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Hard to say, how many of those who fought in the WWII battle fields believed in God and who in Darwin theory, but the presence of the faith during the hardest times showed that Darwin was not the best allay in motivation of the soldiers.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br />Soviet State had to admit that with limited military </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">professionals, shortage of arms and hidden discontent of civil population <span style="font-style: italic;">(</span><span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">remember 1937 purges</span>) it was hard to count on self-</span><span style="font-size: 100%;">motivation. So at that very moment all prosecuted religions were called to help motivate Soviet citizens.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> Both Orthodox and Muslims received certain permissions to practice their faith. With restriction ....but still.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguo8d-VbpgOtxOUfYzUNMUYRqUejlns0nkhgwLQQ7EsZbnvkpMRbXub5Im3Wve1fHqoidQyKhlQlfK1RnpTiTIzAoQDVMJ0nsFFbatlxLiMb2j-TAoH3MshHa0JXSb3s07gdHseE5ehVnL/s1600/nagrazhdenie.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459323827858585138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguo8d-VbpgOtxOUfYzUNMUYRqUejlns0nkhgwLQQ7EsZbnvkpMRbXub5Im3Wve1fHqoidQyKhlQlfK1RnpTiTIzAoQDVMJ0nsFFbatlxLiMb2j-TAoH3MshHa0JXSb3s07gdHseE5ehVnL/s200/nagrazhdenie.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 130px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">As often before, relegious leaders didn't need to be told what to say and how to address to people. Many of them also volunteered to serve in the Red Army but the 1945 WWII victory didn't mean return of faith practicing in people's everyday life.<br /><br />Becoming less aggressive the State didn't end the prosecution of the religion (many churches and mosques were still closed)... but the special scientific studies had to answer the question on God's existence.<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPrrYbbH86_rBiOTq8amNvX-xJIH5up55hiH8WTKlA7t_XKe8o9XjbNJKO-Mfz0zBmbE-yWxgXW6dFPoJAEeQwzTYjNhbVFN9MVXmpWh4rzFH3RuZ7ggg9bm0lZtULKenEVPosFjjvbPle/s1600/9368190666017311.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459329319490715506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPrrYbbH86_rBiOTq8amNvX-xJIH5up55hiH8WTKlA7t_XKe8o9XjbNJKO-Mfz0zBmbE-yWxgXW6dFPoJAEeQwzTYjNhbVFN9MVXmpWh4rzFH3RuZ7ggg9bm0lZtULKenEVPosFjjvbPle/s200/9368190666017311.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 159px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Years later, Soviet cosmonauts had admitted that they've been questioned after returning from the space on what they could have noticed "out there"....some of them admitted that it was after "their open space walk" when they became practicing Christians.<br /><br />Thus faith and scientific research managed to exist together until the very <span style="font-style: italic;">perestroika</span> when Soviet people finally had a chance to rediscover their traditions and religions.<br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">END OF XX CENTURY</span><br /><br />The recent studies of the subject showed interesting facts.<br />The polls published by <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Russian independent institute of social and national problems </span>(РНИСиНП) in 2000 showed that by the end of XX century </span><span style="color: red;">46,9 % </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: black;">of population</span> </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">openly declared to believe in God</span>, that almost<span style="color: red;"> <span style="font-style: italic;">twice is more than in the end of 1970th</span></span>.<br /><br />At the same time, the number of those <span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">who do not believe in any supernatural forces (10,3 %) </span>has decreased. Thus <span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">25% of people claimed to be hesitating </span>between believing in God or in anything at all.<br />It showed, that the general number <span style="color: red;">of believing in God(46,9 %) </span>was much less than the general number of<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"> adherents of various religions(69,5 %).</span><br /><br />The center "Religion in a modern society " which performed the study specified this strange fact in answers of respondents showed that the identification by religion "Orthodoxy ", "Judaism"or" Islam" was rather a way to show the affiliation to special way of life, culture, type of a civilization.<br />Thus among those who claimed to be <span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">non-believers (37,6 %), </span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">there were </span></span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">also those who believed in future (1,6 %), signs (14,7 %), in a certain supernatural force (13,2 %), in afterlife (2,8 %), sorcery and magic (3,4 %), in incarnation (2,4 %), etc</span>. " All of this again confirmed that the majority of Russians, irrespectively of fact, if they consider themselves to be believers or not, in actual life, believe in various archaic, pre-christian and pre-muslim ideas, pagan traditions ".<br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">NOWADAYS</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUq2ZeQDCv8OVs9pswl-hhUmaGQXzY3XyPf1kAn2cvkLM5OOGYrcY1eFjzURSlsc_ICFPGOhlaH6R3yRAau8K9MHn0U0_RKqqMrzsBvzzUetqQ7CPPtT4vdYSGbKjzD1k07krhvQfaNu9F/s1600/194262.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5466039226700348354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUq2ZeQDCv8OVs9pswl-hhUmaGQXzY3XyPf1kAn2cvkLM5OOGYrcY1eFjzURSlsc_ICFPGOhlaH6R3yRAau8K9MHn0U0_RKqqMrzsBvzzUetqQ7CPPtT4vdYSGbKjzD1k07krhvQfaNu9F/s200/194262.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Having said that I have to confirm your sources.<br /><br />Latest polls showed that only <a href="http://wciom.ru/arkhiv/tematicheskii-arkhiv/item/single/2521.html?no_cache=1&cHash=e438ca3d7f"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">24% of Russian population believe in Darwin theory</span></a> and this number <span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">equals to the one for those who believe that God was at the origin of human creation</span>.<br />And to be totally honest ......<span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">53% </span>of those who responded said that <span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://bd.fom.ru/report/map/d073223">"Darwinism? Never heard this word"</a> ))))))) </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;">P.S. Have I answered your uneasy question?</span></span><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>
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</div>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-48269399398698974082010-03-20T14:33:00.021+01:002015-08-20T17:01:26.772+02:00Pets & Russians<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJD_3DTkKOIUueZiVF8ifit7Q7VmzUR0l1f_M2eIz0kLIn86ZhqUaQoFPO28qJbfKDv9YKFM7IeomlZgA_G6DRWYn1hY-zCwkudwOZAOGR3D7OfVlhMfzXATlmzhMdDqkK7BQSRJ8AUx7/s1600-h/olpk.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtJD_3DTkKOIUueZiVF8ifit7Q7VmzUR0l1f_M2eIz0kLIn86ZhqUaQoFPO28qJbfKDv9YKFM7IeomlZgA_G6DRWYn1hY-zCwkudwOZAOGR3D7OfVlhMfzXATlmzhMdDqkK7BQSRJ8AUx7/s320/olpk.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 320px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 181px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;">How do Russians feel about pets? What are the most popular pets in Russia?<br /><br />asked by _anzawest_</span><span class="long_text"><span onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" style="background-color: white;" title="Самым популярным домашним питомцем среди россиян является кошка."><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="long_text"><span onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" style="background-color: white;" title="Самым популярным домашним питомцем среди россиян является кошка."><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: #33cc00;">OFFICIAL INFO</span><br /></span>According to the latest 2010 sociological studies (not reflected on the picture) <a href="http://www.amic.ru/news/120790/">(http://www.amic.ru/news/120790/)</a> 56 % of Russians own a pet. 57% of owners are single people and 56% are married couples. 25% of people blamed their love for pets on the tradition, 22% believe that pets help them to be less stressed, 14% admit that a pet helps them to feel less lonely and 10% had been convinced by their kids.</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz3UjIEbGK3Qz8ay74npwLxjS38ySIJ1oyAlCJgXhMAUM9Pr7N7GEwpJl8OQxZEFBLdwEUZ8ivpR-sSGBoBZrK7DFXRsLwXPJEq64pcj6NSgI1LpC7SI51yHT1KbD5Y-gw_5nuZA_u7XKm/s1600-h/77458.jpg.700.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiz3UjIEbGK3Qz8ay74npwLxjS38ySIJ1oyAlCJgXhMAUM9Pr7N7GEwpJl8OQxZEFBLdwEUZ8ivpR-sSGBoBZrK7DFXRsLwXPJEq64pcj6NSgI1LpC7SI51yHT1KbD5Y-gw_5nuZA_u7XKm/s200/77458.jpg.700.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 134px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><br />
<span class="long_text"><span onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" style="background-color: white;" title="Самым популярным домашним питомцем среди россиян является кошка.">SO..... the most popular household pet in Russia is<span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;"> not a bear </span>))))) but a <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">cat</span><span style="color: red;">.</span> </span><span onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" style="background-color: white;" title="Согласно последнему опросу ВЦИОМ, у 37% соотечественников дома живет представитель породы кошачьих."><br />37% of Russians have a cat.</span></span><br />
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Interesting to mention that the older the owner is the less demanding he is for the race of his pet.<br />
<span class="long_text"><span onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" style="background-color: white;" title="При этом у 29% россиян дома живет обычная беспородистая Мурка, и лишь 8% соотечественников держат дома породистую кошку.">29% of Russians claim to be happy with an outbred cat and only 8% of owners have a cat of a special breed.</span></span> (<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">Does the affection has a race??<span style="color: black;">)))</span></span><br />
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Every third Russian citizen owns a <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">dog</span>. Just live previous case, 19% prefer an outbred dog to 11% of those who prefer a pedigree one.<br />
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And only 4% of people give their love to a <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">goldfish</span> <span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">(Do we still believe that they make the wish come true?)))</span>, 3% to an in-house <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">birds</span> and 2% to other <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">small animals (hamsters, turtles, etc)</span>.<br />
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<span style="color: #33cc00; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">SENTIMENTAL </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhun9EW_jaeWidmkb113p3KTLpgv6nncxrNa2nP8uSCLcNph2M3V1RAjwdTczhsO9EPJyM8p7Bp1x4h0Y4WQW6r3EVBIh5b7vxbTM83CE04M1_eBaJif3tEBIbhnJGOOSlit2WQeYu_vVB/s1600-h/78639.jpg.700.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhun9EW_jaeWidmkb113p3KTLpgv6nncxrNa2nP8uSCLcNph2M3V1RAjwdTczhsO9EPJyM8p7Bp1x4h0Y4WQW6r3EVBIh5b7vxbTM83CE04M1_eBaJif3tEBIbhnJGOOSlit2WQeYu_vVB/s200/78639.jpg.700.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 134px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><span class="long_text"><span onmouseout="this.style.backgroundColor='#fff'" onmouseover="this.style.backgroundColor='#ebeff9'" style="background-color: white;" title="Самым популярным домашним питомцем среди россиян является кошка.">Oh... pets! What would it be like our life without them??? )))) Who of us, growing up in small apartments didn't dream of having a pet.</span></span><br />
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Well, not even kids )))) Still how many of Russian girls wanted to get a little dog after watching a film on A. Chekhov's "The lady with the little dog"! )))))))<br />
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Even those who's finances or flat size don't allow to have a pet at home (and according to the statistics : 43% of population) find their way to fill this gap of affection and express their love to the fauna (well, according to the means and age, of cause)))).<br />
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<span style="color: #009900; font-weight: bold;">P.S.</span><span style="color: #009900; font-size: 78%;"> <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Well, I don't want to idealize the situation. Helas, it is true that Russia remains one of the few European countries where you still see wild pets living on the streets, many of which just like in other countries were abandoned by the owners... This of cause has nothing to do with the national qualities..as everywhere it is related to the human characteristics of a person abandoning his pet.</span></span><br />
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Well, I don't know your girlfriend and cant say if she is over obsessed with her grandmother ))) But frankly, I would say that this will be rather normal behavior for a girl who was raised by her grandparents. Don't stress (!), it doesn't mean that she didn't grow up. Maybe like many children who were born in Soviet (or post-Soviet) country she just probably never had a nanny and was raised by her grandmother.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">HISTORY</span><br />
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To have an extra help in raising kids in Soviet culture was considered "bourgeois" and highly suspicious. People had neither money nor services available. So since almost all mothers had to return to work when the child was 1-3 years old, the kids had to be put in the nursery or left with someone from the family.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjqpDKswNlveic0NHKnmS0ElHYvCwn4r6MjwAmWbLM72XgafDECG4sx9AcL39Ql2wv_dmvPdq5c1P_g1lJozihzb3qRP1-a140ohoE2FENe9oXGpfAQ_nKYuvf-4dolRDKL6wc10l960Km/s1600-h/a044017d4391.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5446227242466857122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjqpDKswNlveic0NHKnmS0ElHYvCwn4r6MjwAmWbLM72XgafDECG4sx9AcL39Ql2wv_dmvPdq5c1P_g1lJozihzb3qRP1-a140ohoE2FENe9oXGpfAQ_nKYuvf-4dolRDKL6wc10l960Km/s200/a044017d4391.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">REALITY</span><br />
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This special someone was often a grandmother. Quite often a grandmother-to-be would retire when her first grandchild is born...<span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;">And she will begin a new full-time job with no term of retirement )))))</span><br />
It will be grandmother who will be replacing mother/nanny/siblings for many kids.<br />
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She will be the one who will spoil, teach, congratulate the first!<br />
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<span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;">....This of cause can (and often does) cause a serious tension between a mother and a grandmother </span>. Who one wants to share a love of a child? )))<br />
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Still if you want to know how people of ex-USSR feel about their <span style="font-style: italic;">babushka</span>. Ask them who was their <span style="font-style: italic;">babushka</span>...and you will a right to see a tear in their eyes, smile and a long story of the best kotletki (meatballs) ever!!!!<br />
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 85%; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">P.S. So don't be surprised, if your Russian mother-in-law will be against hiring a nanny when you have a baby and will be ready to take full care of YOUR child ))). She knows that her effort will be fully paid back.<br /><span style="color: #009900;"><br />She will be loved by her grandchildren and......they will be cuddly until a very mature age )))....and will memorize every moment spent together (on the datcha, for example)<br /><br /><object height="385" width="640"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RX8pkrDoOkA&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xd0d0d0&hl=ru_RU&feature=player_embedded&fs=1"></param>
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Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-12352751837709581682010-02-15T23:42:00.027+01:002015-08-20T16:29:09.823+02:00Arrivial of a newborn in Russia<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6DTJttrryCEft9SkS8rMY7yjlEhGO4sm0rKoTYU-ChOjXaO8FdTEYh4l75nFhhgIO3-wr9EWwLlWdjWy14eT0A29zliyYXi1VzYjm_1L1qsxtOsNU9QsPxPZJpEGqlxMUv9gp1GfL5oZB/s1600-h/m257635.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438950695797190562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6DTJttrryCEft9SkS8rMY7yjlEhGO4sm0rKoTYU-ChOjXaO8FdTEYh4l75nFhhgIO3-wr9EWwLlWdjWy14eT0A29zliyYXi1VzYjm_1L1qsxtOsNU9QsPxPZJpEGqlxMUv9gp1GfL5oZB/s200/m257635.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 155px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I'd like to know ...who cares for mother and baby the first days after birth. Is it the family, like grandmother and aunts, or a nurse?<br />Is there any difference between giving birth in a city or at the countryside?<br />And what's the role of the father? I found a site which said that fathers after the birth of their child the whole night go boozing with friends, but I thought that rather unlikely.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 78%;">Next, is there some party for the family, friends, and neighbors or can they visit whenever they?<br />Are there special gifts you give the mother and child?<br />And is it still a custom to wrap the baby?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana;">Indeed, the world surrounding the birth of a new person rests in Russia purely the women's world. I will disappoint you to say that not that Russian men don't love their newborn children.... it is just rather cultural to leave the pregnancy and everything concerning this mysterious process to the women.<br /><br />Social studies prove that majority of Russian women won't expect the father of their baby to accompany her through the pregnancy to doctors or even to be present at the labor room.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">You will be surprised</span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">, </span><span style="color: red;">but </span><span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">chastity and timidity </span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">would be the right words to describe the feelings of both sides.</span><span style="color: red;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkeoJX6WIoBTpHTLtyEPrKvtMua_s682DF6puy50281v09i85nvaRURcaD-3BIT_eH4zwt22Dft5HOfoBcJWDQmKbtv3LDYQ_uiVE4o6zZCh9HwbkRMt8L1VzwBD5i_gw7BMAjSW6B4k6M/s1600-h/c8227ab36ee0.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439308714540798562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkeoJX6WIoBTpHTLtyEPrKvtMua_s682DF6puy50281v09i85nvaRURcaD-3BIT_eH4zwt22Dft5HOfoBcJWDQmKbtv3LDYQ_uiVE4o6zZCh9HwbkRMt8L1VzwBD5i_gw7BMAjSW6B4k6M/s200/c8227ab36ee0.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 126px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></span></a><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">Majority of women would have their babies in the official medical establishments where they will stay from 5-7 days after giving a birth (this, by the way, allows woman to rest) and just few would prefer to have a labor at home under the supervision of a midwife. Rural areas won't be much different from the towns.<br />The level of comfort could vary .....but this will be true for any other country.</span></span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">)))))<br /></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbOIvBjc5NMbQLMSb5Wa0u-HrkwP1lTPpRAsenRcnYE0laFyab_pdAc9Vsv9ppriN2hyphenhyphenN2U5dB8o-BusuNinTrSj7-abWIcuR_tc-1PO2mp6SSMXfhiqP9SshjZ9Cyhqxzn3pJySkntd57/s1600-h/68497593.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439310640000827250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbOIvBjc5NMbQLMSb5Wa0u-HrkwP1lTPpRAsenRcnYE0laFyab_pdAc9Vsv9ppriN2hyphenhyphenN2U5dB8o-BusuNinTrSj7-abWIcuR_tc-1PO2mp6SSMXfhiqP9SshjZ9Cyhqxzn3pJySkntd57/s200/68497593.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 148px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></span></a><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">One important issue would be the restriction on the visits in the neonatal section of the hospital. In many places, even fathers are not welcomed. <span style="color: black;">Hygiene standards don't allow any foreign infection in the hospital. </span>So grandparents, friends, and relatives will have to wait until the newborn is allowed to go home with his mom. </span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGgSIgmHbcxxJdblqE7OkmJ4CsnAnoZZ1VVeuT0ZE49AVVYaeU9qBLrZAC6fPKrerDmPJmfmShktTiJBeuY1LLdhWTpfZ22N8kooG3lKLzYmgPWs6L_0cBUo9g7SGTE-YdgLSycryJ0RLJ/s1600-h/28424401.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439319395253297650" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGgSIgmHbcxxJdblqE7OkmJ4CsnAnoZZ1VVeuT0ZE49AVVYaeU9qBLrZAC6fPKrerDmPJmfmShktTiJBeuY1LLdhWTpfZ22N8kooG3lKLzYmgPWs6L_0cBUo9g7SGTE-YdgLSycryJ0RLJ/s200/28424401.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 159px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></span></a><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">.</span></span></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black; font-family: verdana;">..And that is why in every family you will have a picture of them on the stairs of the hospital accompanied by a woman wearing white robe holding wrapped pink of blue blanket ))))<br />Thus, the midwife presents a new member to the family!</span></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFtyrOmSWu7hhVpllMQrFllDT9tAd1wKJ-YfJXvvLEDL-PB8bX38yVYP7y3BxjlOITvg8GClXyd9i4q40jpWROB_E53khvDk-5QiE_68CSvssA_VAofwPGlrcmL3GmVj4N2tVoUDf7EjXl/s1600-h/ww2-29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439312235032175138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFtyrOmSWu7hhVpllMQrFllDT9tAd1wKJ-YfJXvvLEDL-PB8bX38yVYP7y3BxjlOITvg8GClXyd9i4q40jpWROB_E53khvDk-5QiE_68CSvssA_VAofwPGlrcmL3GmVj4N2tVoUDf7EjXl/s200/ww2-29.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 150px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">...And yes, we do wrap our babies for the first several months of life ))))</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="color: #33cc00; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">TRADITIONS & SUPERSTITIONS </span><br /><br />The modern life and technology definitely entered life of Russians, but there are some traditions and superstitions which survived all: Tsar, Soviet, and any modern times influence )))<br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">1. During the pregnancy</span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">, a woman should not eat in secret (hiding)</span>. If she does so: her child could be born fearful. </span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwL-U-sSKKo_Ti5Jb6JSpHZzWGTonVKi1zpKPWp6tPENQRHmrBLuqLNtGDtUvc7YViqR1bc8Y6H2hQoPgHDG5n2_sW_XWVlGbUKxwLCXn5E50Sz8kqkE4mZbiDmfyrLXcNDJbUER9EscD2/s1600-h/9-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439314787372539026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwL-U-sSKKo_Ti5Jb6JSpHZzWGTonVKi1zpKPWp6tPENQRHmrBLuqLNtGDtUvc7YViqR1bc8Y6H2hQoPgHDG5n2_sW_XWVlGbUKxwLCXn5E50Sz8kqkE4mZbiDmfyrLXcNDJbUER9EscD2/s200/9-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 150px;" /></span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Modern EXPLANATION</span>: Such desire can appear either in case of food deficiency (which in our time is, fortunately, rare), or in case of eating “forbidden fruits”, for example chocolate or oranges, which can be considered as allergic for the baby. .... (<span style="font-style: italic;">Still not clear</span> how could it make the kid fearful)))<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">2. </span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">Never mention that you are pregnant, except to a father of a child and a doctor! </span>Until stomach becomes noticeable, a woman should not mention to anyone her pregnancy. ...Grandparents, friends included.</span><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Modern EXPLANATION</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">: This very ancient popular belief. Once there was an entire “system” of rites, which helped a woman to conceal the pregnancy from the evil spirits, which aimed to harm an unborn baby. Women wore husband's shirts, worked as much as others to hide her pregnancy especially from those, among whom could hide anyone with a "bad eye".<br /><br />Nowadays contemporary psychologists recommend following this advice in certain cases (especially when there is a threat of the miscarriage). The reason for this is not in “being jinxed” but a probable natural miscarriage during the first term. If this misfortune happens, the possible questions on the state of mother's health can traumatize woman even more than the event itself.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj61Wv79RxAhtIqwfFisyMbRFpgTI2dFrjFvr8wktlJl8jUeNW9F4YtSDYb7uZCscBP5-DEsHXCoKeA-pRfEgGsE7kIzPSrhGuinYWUEzMoT4Tha729dSPN_MGNd6KzVtsCCErxIJW0_7jp/s1600-h/33860200_V.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440073169898225602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj61Wv79RxAhtIqwfFisyMbRFpgTI2dFrjFvr8wktlJl8jUeNW9F4YtSDYb7uZCscBP5-DEsHXCoKeA-pRfEgGsE7kIzPSrhGuinYWUEzMoT4Tha729dSPN_MGNd6KzVtsCCErxIJW0_7jp/s200/33860200_V.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 172px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: red;">3.</span> </span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">The name of a future child must be held in secret. </span>A name of an unborn baby can be considered but shall be held in strict secrecy as the evil spirits can try to harm an unborn baby.<br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">4. Pregnant mother shall not touch domestic animals. </span>A pregnant woman must not play with the cat, even take it into the hands, in the child will otherwise be many enemies.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaZIs5ZsgZgkSm03QhwqZrFj4a7MBOquPpjZWqDHUGnlVT_hpNMpFjCDygYgjZUydg2wGvKIwbqVmKPoDEXGfqs5IUx4_unOi7YdvdVOOyfKdPjaYr0mRQWqfCR2qa81OGzUgQOJzK5pW3/s1600-h/433.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5450709945102432386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaZIs5ZsgZgkSm03QhwqZrFj4a7MBOquPpjZWqDHUGnlVT_hpNMpFjCDygYgjZUydg2wGvKIwbqVmKPoDEXGfqs5IUx4_unOi7YdvdVOOyfKdPjaYr0mRQWqfCR2qa81OGzUgQOJzK5pW3/s200/433.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 150px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Modern EXPLANATION: </span>The discovery in XX century of toxoplasmosis, a very dangerous disease for future moms, which is actually transferred by cats, cleared this superstition.<br /><br /><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">5. No clothes or toys or anything shall be bought or kept in the house where the pregnant woman lives.</span> If grandparents or father buy anything they shall never show it to a future mom. Everyone pretends that there is no change coming in the family's life. <span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;">Father will have time to get it all once a baby is born. </span>That is what he is doing together with all aunts and grandparents when mother and a baby rest after the labor.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">6. A woman shall not cut her hair during the pregnancy. <span style="color: black;">(I couldn't get a decent explanation why)</span></span></span>.<br />
<span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;"><br /><span style="color: red; font-family: verdana;">7. No stranger eyes should look at the baby until the child is the 1-2 month old. </span></span><span style="color: #009900;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX1PpNnjoIZFjbmLEqvI03aCZZJjcRCKDpcOnJZlODkaTxGUzIsFnGLAYGtd3AcwHflVzxStPegDodc6wn4T3SZyoMZsW_iAleZPUokd1xb0m3GnsH1DgV5YZNYKY50j0d55fY_uW0Fzad/s1600-h/111.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439320388172720226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX1PpNnjoIZFjbmLEqvI03aCZZJjcRCKDpcOnJZlODkaTxGUzIsFnGLAYGtd3AcwHflVzxStPegDodc6wn4T3SZyoMZsW_iAleZPUokd1xb0m3GnsH1DgV5YZNYKY50j0d55fY_uW0Fzad/s200/111.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 83px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 135px;" /></span></a><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="color: #009900;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">There are no traditions of any baby shower in Russia. Presents are just given to the parents at the occasions.<br />Usually, the first party would be organized for the christening (if the parents plan to baptize a baby) or for any other</span></span></span><span style="color: #009900;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;"> close holiday (New Year/birthday of a member of a family). But more often you <span style="font-weight: bold;">will not be</span> invited to the house. Once again - "no infection in the house"<span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>is needed.</span></span></span><span style="color: #009900;"><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: red;"></span></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #009900;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">P.S. Hope, it covers more or less all of your questions. As for the father's drinking all night long after the day when his son was born. You know, I am sure this is not only Russian tradition...but who would blame the happy dad? ))</span></span></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2UOKBwwLHeb_a97rJsH878OYQqdaXCycJiUnplgbWaEwQ5O1iLkGkCst5Mty-I2ZImkf8djPOkbtqDZP06mGPi6X46XL-DVOSU3As1rqD2-6Vpa7G1rFDJdEce7KRM7Q0OapSMcgu84uu/s1600-h/15.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439321636437931970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2UOKBwwLHeb_a97rJsH878OYQqdaXCycJiUnplgbWaEwQ5O1iLkGkCst5Mty-I2ZImkf8djPOkbtqDZP06mGPi6X46XL-DVOSU3As1rqD2-6Vpa7G1rFDJdEce7KRM7Q0OapSMcgu84uu/s200/15.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 200px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 152px;" /></a>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-71459937794144110862010-02-07T17:07:00.010+01:002010-07-17T21:43:51.680+02:00Ice hockey in Russia<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2AekuxNXzfjGFPIE_Zt4-9qR8mm9-ka9ppgVYFekApMfxIOSKRZPEo4RmNUDoLHCxjqfX09TnvLNA74JnZy34ZKFgO6kXcG2uFKncYL31EvDcdKBoHVT-fvJjLzzfCHG-CRNovhqOU7P/s1600-h/russian_wins_against_finland01.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA2AekuxNXzfjGFPIE_Zt4-9qR8mm9-ka9ppgVYFekApMfxIOSKRZPEo4RmNUDoLHCxjqfX09TnvLNA74JnZy34ZKFgO6kXcG2uFKncYL31EvDcdKBoHVT-fvJjLzzfCHG-CRNovhqOU7P/s200/russian_wins_against_finland01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435956674184114466" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Can you tell more about ice hockey in Russia. Is is as popular as we think. Thanks.</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"> <br /> asked by Anonymous<br /></span></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;">Well, I don't know where to start....I'll start with a history because you will be surprised to learn that this strong love for hockey is rather young )))</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">HISTORY</span><br /><br />Before 1917 the ice hockey was not really known in Russia. Several sport clubs made an attempt to break into a new winter sports competitions and in 1911 Russia entered International ice hockey league created 3 years earlier. However the puck did not manage to become popular and quit soon All-Russian hockey union leaved international Ice Hockey League.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm83ttA9s3TuA6EWHOnA0MWIDIHYL2KX2anDUvX8HGbQt1Gt2BBa56ScZQCsgx1EE9F5Nc2LpsuW9ALKfRDtMQohwMC9mtPZrlZ6Yqia-g2EOHp84dzaLTtGHO9DONjIGMIhbfTJUkYESm/s1600-h/f0c8eb344919.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm83ttA9s3TuA6EWHOnA0MWIDIHYL2KX2anDUvX8HGbQt1Gt2BBa56ScZQCsgx1EE9F5Nc2LpsuW9ALKfRDtMQohwMC9mtPZrlZ6Yqia-g2EOHp84dzaLTtGHO9DONjIGMIhbfTJUkYESm/s200/f0c8eb344919.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435491301723313314" border="0" /></a><br />The history of hockey in Soviet Russia began rather after 1917 with an extreme popularity of field hockey (called then “bandy or Russian hockey” <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy#Russia">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandy#Russia</a>).<br /><br />In the beginning of XX century this game was especially popular among women.<br />The ice hockey was rarely played and only by the students of sports universities who were supposed to study all types of sports. Ice hockey was an outsider among sports favored by Soviet youth until after the WWII when in 1946 Soviet Hockey league was founded.<br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Hockey_League">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Hockey_League</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">On April 1st, 1952 the Soviet Hockey league joined International Hockey League </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">to become one of the best performer of this league. </span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpXdhlFxY0eNHkFHztvHsHg6HatkibPO0SaRYQebk-WuaT6fnm_m5XNxWQ3ngQt7D1MIDRsSn9BntA7L3qzU2FgSOigVmz2oRMjGH7x7zN2GlJcCAwAey5t4FffpbfvM4d73TlFpWTDtMb/s1600-h/150px-1956_Winter_Olympics_logo.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 151px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpXdhlFxY0eNHkFHztvHsHg6HatkibPO0SaRYQebk-WuaT6fnm_m5XNxWQ3ngQt7D1MIDRsSn9BntA7L3qzU2FgSOigVmz2oRMjGH7x7zN2GlJcCAwAey5t4FffpbfvM4d73TlFpWTDtMb/s200/150px-1956_Winter_Olympics_logo.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435573619169552642" border="0" /></a><br />Suddenly this winter sport became so popular that all Russian boys became obsessed with "the stick & puck".<br />It will be only fair to say that this popularity was provoked by success of Soviet hockey team which won 7:3 its first World Championship in 1954 beating Canada and 4:0 over US team in 1956 Olympic games in Cortina D'Ampezzo.<br /><br />Suddenly every boy in USSR wanted a hockey stick for New Year or birthday. No wonder, in 1960-70th everyone was talking about Russian ice hockey dream team.<br />After seeing breathtaking success and foolhardy behavior of their players on the ice ring Russians considered this sport as "the one for REAL man" and all over the country little boys sang the song <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Coward doesn't play in hockey</span> ("<span style="font-style: italic;">Trus ne igraet v khokkei</span>")<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9SowKFxro_s&hl=en_US&fs=1&"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9SowKFxro_s&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGN8D4N0fpn8N5XRHrkX9UiCJhyphenhyphengUVN6iXKLwri74kM6HoszM-NXkIr9x9Essqta0Lc6LXqgOnBuqoEw6yIfNFl3edrffoUSc0MXenfNsJlAoG61vuCvp8L9NqgAhnZ4D-_sEK6kJ1ZLHm/s1600-h/Logo-CSKA.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 138px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGN8D4N0fpn8N5XRHrkX9UiCJhyphenhyphengUVN6iXKLwri74kM6HoszM-NXkIr9x9Essqta0Lc6LXqgOnBuqoEw6yIfNFl3edrffoUSc0MXenfNsJlAoG61vuCvp8L9NqgAhnZ4D-_sEK6kJ1ZLHm/s200/Logo-CSKA.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435955622583451938" border="0" /></a><br />National ice hockey was mostly dominated by two major clubs <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">TSKA (Soviet Army club)</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Spartak</span>.<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWFyS-ny2AcZyDfrXIsHQmp0eQ4RK62V1_NIFdY-wLkevUEnRknZDEzHI6xdySrwKSNiu1BSdzX3sQBIdhE8G1iSO0QzkDdiZjxLbNACvNhGxyZ0mmvCqYOWKeIhLJyyN3fsXwzSRdobP/s1600-h/HC_Spartak_Moscou.gif"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 118px; height: 60px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWFyS-ny2AcZyDfrXIsHQmp0eQ4RK62V1_NIFdY-wLkevUEnRknZDEzHI6xdySrwKSNiu1BSdzX3sQBIdhE8G1iSO0QzkDdiZjxLbNACvNhGxyZ0mmvCqYOWKeIhLJyyN3fsXwzSRdobP/s200/HC_Spartak_Moscou.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435954905252150482" border="0" /></a><br /><br />These people were more then movie stars their faces were all over the news and they were considered as the heroes of their times. They were dashing players and adored by everyone. Wikipedia mentions 4 Soviet players who marked those times:<br /><br />"<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">The IIHF Team of the Century included four Soviet-Russian players out of a team of six.<br />Goalkeeper: </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Tretiak" title="Vladislav Tretiak">Vladislav Tretiak</a><span style="font-style: italic;">,<br />defense: </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vyacheslav_Fetisov" title="Vyacheslav Fetisov" class="mw-redirect">Vyacheslav Fetisov</a><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />and forwards </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Kharlamov" title="Valeri Kharlamov">Valeri Kharlamov</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> & </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Makarov" title="Sergei Makarov">Sergei Makarov</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> who played for the Soviet teams in the 1970s and the 1980s were voted on to the </span><a style="font-style: italic;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IIHF_Centennial_All-Star_Team" title="IIHF Centennial All-Star Team">IIHF Centennial All-Star Team</a><span style="font-style: italic;"> in a poll conducted by a group of 56 experts from 16 countries."</span></span><br /><br />Collapse of the USSR meant hard times for the national ice hockey.<br />1989 was the first year when Soviet hockey players began leaving the country searching for a better pay and the weakened team was not as performing as during the Soviet times. It took almost 15 years of ups and downs and searching of new team and coach for Russian hockey to show stable successful result in World championships:<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJTEAgQgHWxy_pYhyphenhyphenjayfvaLEGpP9HkSoI44wowCD-e89rjORPj-kPejIjKds9PZTyaaEMAIhQcMJJyMPwtiu7FtyJwfvWm1CyG0-Tddweg5EL9UAeKqhVp9pcXYzVuG0UskgFvzWEU_MI/s1600-h/Rhockey.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 176px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJTEAgQgHWxy_pYhyphenhyphenjayfvaLEGpP9HkSoI44wowCD-e89rjORPj-kPejIjKds9PZTyaaEMAIhQcMJJyMPwtiu7FtyJwfvWm1CyG0-Tddweg5EL9UAeKqhVp9pcXYzVuG0UskgFvzWEU_MI/s200/Rhockey.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435484099074938290" border="0" /></a><ul><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Men%27s_World_Ice_Hockey_Championships" title="2007 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships">2007</a> - <b>Bronze medal winner</b></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Men%27s_World_Ice_Hockey_Championships" title="2008 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships">2008</a> - <b>Gold medal winner</b></li><li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Men%27s_World_Ice_Hockey_Championships" title="2009 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships">2009</a> - <b>Gold medal winner</b></li></ul>Now everyone is waiting for the results of upcoming 2010 Olympic games in Vancouver and Russia hopes to add medal to its Olympic gold medal list in ice hockey:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrqBhDvRERzzpoX_pPv9SV17lcXM4HD1XgaFttHuhSQzpFEQqbHL5hX5JJGdt3stri0oaNIdJ0P523X4-_XbjfKZNiwWt5oMR4OdsvDJHz53XtWYgRCJakAMAzhyphenhyphenOTUud7lQbOXiDojHio/s1600-h/image_37254.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 162px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrqBhDvRERzzpoX_pPv9SV17lcXM4HD1XgaFttHuhSQzpFEQqbHL5hX5JJGdt3stri0oaNIdJ0P523X4-_XbjfKZNiwWt5oMR4OdsvDJHz53XtWYgRCJakAMAzhyphenhyphenOTUud7lQbOXiDojHio/s200/image_37254.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439295952738717666" border="0" /></a><br /><ul><li style="text-align: justify;">1956<br /></li><li style="text-align: justify;">1964<br /></li><li style="text-align: justify;">1968<br /></li><li style="text-align: justify;">1972<br /></li><li style="text-align: justify;">1976<br /></li><li style="text-align: justify;">1984<br /></li><li style="text-align: justify;">1988<br /></li><li style="text-align: justify;">1992<br /></li></ul><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0cncaunOADvNers49tHFxThE98hUTl18RGAUwhJBIqYnfj73m7Kir_2s0Tn7Bs3GX39jKimuqmBsAh5gvD-_sw0DXOSUZE2A9aX3XgPwodGFolra5Q3D3TCHHllOSlWr8LwM-cbw8-z-/s1600-h/fp.jpg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 125px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy0cncaunOADvNers49tHFxThE98hUTl18RGAUwhJBIqYnfj73m7Kir_2s0Tn7Bs3GX39jKimuqmBsAh5gvD-_sw0DXOSUZE2A9aX3XgPwodGFolra5Q3D3TCHHllOSlWr8LwM-cbw8-z-/s200/fp.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435599911996110738" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">NOWADAYS </span><br /><br />According to statistics Russia has a total of 77,702 players, about 0.05% of its population. Who knows, maybe soon we will see Russian girls ice hockey team (participating in the world championships since 2007) showing surprising results. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXP3Cj6Og42cEr_IVX2mpYi3fqij1CsDbZ0WP5CXhQPPD8cEIWfgpLl7yxW84kOVQH9z-NcC-xz_SuWR1CN2WvDsJWAFSdypjPnQju0WfqSxHug5FYr7CO7qqubeOSEJKWPI3JDEURpWWi/s1600-h/59.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXP3Cj6Og42cEr_IVX2mpYi3fqij1CsDbZ0WP5CXhQPPD8cEIWfgpLl7yxW84kOVQH9z-NcC-xz_SuWR1CN2WvDsJWAFSdypjPnQju0WfqSxHug5FYr7CO7qqubeOSEJKWPI3JDEURpWWi/s200/59.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5435957623015209154" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Meanwhile healthy outdoor sport wins over indoor ones during the long Russian winter and parents willingly put their little kids to learn the rules of this taught game ))))Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-56292337028982093992010-01-24T21:21:00.001+01:002015-08-20T15:52:40.606+02:00Integration into Russian society<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJkB3gMMxzObV70YHaBIlXI26kEWR1xlYR7nLw9PyCKVzJtiRxE58WX9Eejd8RqjNAL_oOzDaNGe5oZCzTpSIhM-UZt3EUOtPoTrLVlO2bAky2mZDbrg9O-ROkzWLRtob_hWFYhVc-y3Mo/s1600-h/505807.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430437117215559298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJkB3gMMxzObV70YHaBIlXI26kEWR1xlYR7nLw9PyCKVzJtiRxE58WX9Eejd8RqjNAL_oOzDaNGe5oZCzTpSIhM-UZt3EUOtPoTrLVlO2bAky2mZDbrg9O-ROkzWLRtob_hWFYhVc-y3Mo/s320/505807.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 256px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;">Would it be possible for me, an outsider, to, over time, become accepted by the Russian people? I'm not saying I expect to be accepted as one of your own, but just to be considered another person, friend etc there. I really hope to be accepted as a person there and not "the outsider".<br /><br />My second question was: as I said, I want to go into writing when I have finished my education, probably as an author of books or something in philosophy, perhaps reporting if those two are not doable, but my main area that I really aspire to do well in, is teaching. I was wondering if there would be a lot of acceptance for a person like me with that kind of job, and whether I would generally be successful in your country with something like that.<br /><br />asked by Darryl, UK</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-style: italic;">Dear Darryl,</span><span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">I always believe that majority of our problems, when we are trying to settle down abroad, are related to a simply bad communication or absence of knowledge of local "communication codes". So I'll try to list the most important ones.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">KEYS to INTEGRATION</span><br />
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This applies to any country, but for the one like Russia where according to the State statistics only 5% of population speaks English, knowledge of Russian will open you many doors..including those of human hearts ))))<br />
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Another key would be the <span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">TIME</span><span style="font-style: italic;">. </span>Once again in order to be accepted by the people...you'll have to spend your time with them )))). It seems obvious but as a long-term expat I have to admit that the most obvious things are the most difficult to handle.<br />
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It is always very tempting to stay close to the expat community which is welcoming and understanding....but if you close yourself with those who are just like you, you'll arrive to the point where people around you will be complaining about "complicated Russians" while doing nothing to break the fence they created around themselves. <span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">(P.S. I have met a friend who in order to integrate had purposely cut all communication with compatriots to the strict minimum and in several years was completely adapted to the local life) </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #009900; font-style: italic;">It is true that people are different but when you hit an inevitable low point of your stay in Russian it is important to remember, that it was YOUR choice to come to Russia and it is up to you to make a bigger effort. </span><br />
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I always found Russians rather friendly and loyal as friends...but would not deny the certain idealization of the Western people.<br />
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Another success key would be <span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="color: red;">asking people questions or advice</span> when </span>you don't understand something. Don't suppose that you can get it yourself and don't hesitate. Usually, they 'll help...or at least one of them will ))) And that might help you to meet a new friend.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Now to answer your second question....</span><br />
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I really don't know what to say. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Teacher</span> is always a demanded profession....but being a writer of philosophy books ???<br />
The success of this project, I am afraid, wouldn't depend on the place of your residence, but on the content of your work.<br />
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Hope I answered your questions. So please don't be discouraged or demotivated if you found my advises hard to follow. I am sure that you won't be disappointed coming to Russia.<br />
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Besides, the good thing is that you won't be alone, trying to integrate the Russian society. As you could see from the listed below charts there will be officially at least 10 0000-12 000 people (from non-CIS countries) per year who would ask themselves the same questions.<br />
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I would love to give you some dynamics of development of this interesting subject but in order to save some time I will have to stick to <span style="color: red;">2009</span> only covering the market of new cars. (<br />
"The used ones" preferences are really hard to cover as the popularity really varies from one region to another (The Far East - Japanese brands, European part- German brands or so ))))<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">The 2009 rating of the most popular new cars in Russia</span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">was severely shaken by the latest economic crisis, when the sales of new cars in Russia had decreased by </span><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;">-50% comparing to 2008. </span>
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Sharp recession has touched almost all companies.<br />
It was especially severe to the traditionally popular in Russian Far East Japanese manufacturers. The Very high exchange rate of yen to dollar and Euro, not to mention the Russian ruble forced Japanese manufacturers to raise the prices for the car production.<br />
As a result, the decrease in sales in 2009 for major Japanese car manufacturers was dramatic for <span style="color: red;">Honda -72 %</span>, <span style="color: red;">Toyota -64 %</span> and <span style="color: red;">Mitsubishi -63 %</span>.<br />
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It also cost <span style="color: red;">Toyota</span> two places in the rating of the most popular in Russia car brands, and now it is only the sixth, Mitsubishi has dropped 3 places and was only 11-th, and Honda from 13-th place has dropped to the 19th. It is a bit better for other Japanese manufacturers - <span style="color: red;">Nissan, Subaru, and Mazda</span>, but their parameters for 2009 also stay below market average: decrease was 56 %, 57 % and 59 % accordingly.<br />
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Some producers, like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Saab</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chrysler</span>, for example, even had to close their car production facilities for Russian market, others, like <span style="font-weight: bold;">Alpha Romeo</span>, wished this year finished soon seeing the sales dropping to minimum (62 cars in first six months of 2009). The bad state of sales for all three brands of American Chrysler Group for 11 months of 2009 has resulted in -86 %. With the only one exception - <span style="font-weight: bold;">the Hummer</span>. Although Americans have sold this mark to the Chinese - the cars for Russian market were assembled in Russian Kaliningrad, that (together with the price reduction) helped the growth of sales of this huge off-road cars <span style="color: red;">+74 %</span>.<br />
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Despite the rather stable position of premium- brands, <span style="color: red;">Volvo</span> and <span style="color: red;">Saab</span> have suffered a significant drop of sales - 66 % and - 71 % accordingly.<br />
Still there was a company which managed to show during this crisis year an outstanding result on Russian market: <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Citroen</span> (growth of <span style="color: red;">+6 %</span>). Citroen has overcome in this year <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Mercedes-Benz, Subaru, Land Rover</span> and some other companies and climbed in ranking from the 31-st to the 23rd place.<br />
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The 2009 crisis of sale has practically left untouched "the big German three ": <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">BMW (-13 %)</span>, <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Audi (-12 %)</span>, <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Mercedes-Benz (-29 %)</span>. They now have headed the premium-class brands, having thrown off the pedestal <span style="font-weight: bold;">Volvo </span>and<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Land Rover</span>.<br />
After transferring to the factory to Kaluga (Moscow region) production of almost all brands of <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Volkswagen</span> and thus absence of high customs taxes Germans managed to keep the prices for the cars on a good level. During 11 months of 2009 VW has sold 36,500 cars and has risen from 17-th to the 12th place in rating. Drop of sales VW was only 19 % - which was one of the best parameters of this crisis year.<br />
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Other car brands worked hard to keep up the sales.<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">2009 Top 10 sales leaders of the most popular cars in Russia</span> (Jan-Oct 2009)<br />
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1. Lada Priora (84 779 cars)<br />
2. Lada Samara (77 679 cars)<br />
3. Lada 2105/2107 (57 513 cars)<br />
4. Lada Kalina (52 499 cars)<br />
5. Ford Focus (44 143 cars)<span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br />6. Renault Logan (43 595 cars)</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br />7. Chevrolet Lacetti (24 889 cars)</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br />8. Daewoo Nexia (23 275 cars)</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br />9. Chevrolet La</span>nos (21 144 cars)<span style="font-size: 100%;"> <br />10. Lada 4x4 (20 661 cars)</span>
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><em><span style="color: #33cc00; font-weight: bold;">HISTORY</span></em><br /><span lang="EN-US"><strong>Russia</strong> <span style="color: black;">has been</span><strong> Christian since 980 A.D. (for over 1000 years)</strong></span><span lang="EN-US"> and the Russian Orthodox Church still follows the </span><span lang="EN-US">old Julian Calendar.<span style="color: red;"> The Julian calendar is currently 13 days behind the </span><b style="color: red;">Gregorian Calendar</b> which is used by the majority of the countries in the world including the Russian State. A</span><span lang="EN-US">ccording to tradition, all Russian Orthodox believers celebrate their Christmas on <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">January 7th</span> of the following year.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHEBuKPbO6ftdwCXg1Y3KSWSFRSjgUuv0g3o4_n1_qfFxD5Yc7w89iQBNFB7Z9cRQ7-1lVx5KQlMdxZpgkhzebaoqmPkClpeLGraWL0T_IpnN8VT-8VWJgNeqvnKrtcwEQCE-p7OLCGnrb/s1600-h/22.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419961131829292866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHEBuKPbO6ftdwCXg1Y3KSWSFRSjgUuv0g3o4_n1_qfFxD5Yc7w89iQBNFB7Z9cRQ7-1lVx5KQlMdxZpgkhzebaoqmPkClpeLGraWL0T_IpnN8VT-8VWJgNeqvnKrtcwEQCE-p7OLCGnrb/s200/22.jpg" style="float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 200px;" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: arial;">It was not always like this. Until 1917 the Russian State celebrated Christmas as lavishly as the rest of Europe but with an official delay of 13 days. So kids received their Christmas presents on that day. This holiday opened seasonal festivities of Russian Imperial court and nobility, which continued until the Lent before Easter.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh93ydMhvEttgnvxX0n3Vx705CKXS3ydc4OrPa_YvmZ56e6d6Yokkfe3QXMqGn3CedmDIQoQuWL_C_FjrvqLW5m4aifl8hmn54yKqcUxGCgAdPGPsEFjreoPfrFIgJE74T3PTHxLLyQzt1F/s1600/U_prazdnichnoy_yolki.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5697929955713418130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh93ydMhvEttgnvxX0n3Vx705CKXS3ydc4OrPa_YvmZ56e6d6Yokkfe3QXMqGn3CedmDIQoQuWL_C_FjrvqLW5m4aifl8hmn54yKqcUxGCgAdPGPsEFjreoPfrFIgJE74T3PTHxLLyQzt1F/s200/U_prazdnichnoy_yolki.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 145px; margin: 0 0 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">When at the end of 1917 the Bolshevik government decided to adopt the Gregorian calendar, the Russian Orthodox church decided not to follow the rules set by the increasingly hostile civil authorities. Part of the reason was to protest against the Bolsheviks and their interference in church affairs. Another reason, probably, was to preserve <span style="font-style: italic;">the older/ Orthodox</span> (</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-style: italic;">read "unchangeable"</span><span style="font-family: arial;">) rules, and ways in which the previous generations of Russian Christians were praying, celebrating, etc.</span><br />
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So the new Soviet State also marked its territory by forbidding all possible reminders of "the Old times". That naturally banned Christmas trees and Christmas day became a working day.<span style="font-family: arial;"> But still parents didn't want to deny their kids the pleasure of decorating a Christmas tree on long winter evenings. My grandmother remembers that even though the people were afraid of repressions they covered windows with blankets when they put a small tree in.<br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm-5_7u20UEjKW2o_EqvI772EJYNKVYhyUFAvzkdZhs_SN7tWLOUhuW-ZPzFfClussLJwyiyLnOzCn0LQZtIlQ9-mRrC9D703PbZDGj9S9HvBAcC4XgWLaprFwJfuAYqWaMyxPzfuTQ8WW/s1600-h/Lenin++deti.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419943555608183554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm-5_7u20UEjKW2o_EqvI772EJYNKVYhyUFAvzkdZhs_SN7tWLOUhuW-ZPzFfClussLJwyiyLnOzCn0LQZtIlQ9-mRrC9D703PbZDGj9S9HvBAcC4XgWLaprFwJfuAYqWaMyxPzfuTQ8WW/s200/Lenin+%2Bdeti.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 138px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;">It was like this until 1935 when one of the party leaders addressed the Communist Congress with a clever note mentioning that <span style="font-style: italic;">"the most civilized State offering everyone an equal chance can't deprive its happy children of presents and the New Year celebration under the wise control of the Communist Party". </span>That argument was unbeatable and here once more - tradition won.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"> Now New Year became a Soviet version of an old Christmas celebration. Presents, Santa, and trees were adopted by the Soviet Union. Lenin had been dead for a long time, but every school had a right to a nice picture of him visiting children for the New Year.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj07Zssd9s7RC7NRVZNdG5DpU7qaEbsEWA5Emx_HcSqNhl6HRa6MPeT3NwYYMfkYIiJeVpvlhU4D0nktk3etHM2pAVy1PwBe_U6zz53qJRPllNNfqG6DEPqufx9JQogYEpyfdnWQiVpY2Lq/s1600-h/51-26-1b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419945322240840258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj07Zssd9s7RC7NRVZNdG5DpU7qaEbsEWA5Emx_HcSqNhl6HRa6MPeT3NwYYMfkYIiJeVpvlhU4D0nktk3etHM2pAVy1PwBe_U6zz53qJRPllNNfqG6DEPqufx9JQogYEpyfdnWQiVpY2Lq/s200/51-26-1b.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 148px;" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;">It was only in 1938 when the Communist Party officially organized a Christmas/New Year tree inside the Kremlin and every small visitor had a right to a small present offered from <span style="color: red; font-weight: bold;">Grandpa Frost</span> (<span style="color: red;">the Soviet version of Santa Clause</span>).</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuLvguhbvRq6811DDwMR6hssKxxeLk3CYaEJRWaoNgLHpt-gq5RRow26BUZbf_vZ_R81Jt9oChvzCFvVNe-iqLLU963wu0IguUhC26Ei7V4IBj29V7u9gVC2k9x672WE-3MXwuc08qgtfn/s1600-h/007-blokada.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419947157799825842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuLvguhbvRq6811DDwMR6hssKxxeLk3CYaEJRWaoNgLHpt-gq5RRow26BUZbf_vZ_R81Jt9oChvzCFvVNe-iqLLU963wu0IguUhC26Ei7V4IBj29V7u9gVC2k9x672WE-3MXwuc08qgtfn/s200/007-blokada.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 144px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 200px;" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">No one knew those days that in just 3 years, the decorated tree would be almost the only consolation for children in bombed and attacked Russian towns during WWII.<br /><br />The end of the war brought another calendar change, though. Now, the 1st of January officially became a day off.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZFBm1MxOHU2YG4jViKam4ljLE5gd6ZBcV982Gq6RzUvjCf96y_HMDhzxj18xS8zBzLUe_ifxeSLs0hRJd2pBCwzCJ4jQqh5Ms57_ZIdc9kmi_RtbnOw11nVeyUuuhsxbL-8PjmRi6LW9_/s1600-h/1949.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419948316566391314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZFBm1MxOHU2YG4jViKam4ljLE5gd6ZBcV982Gq6RzUvjCf96y_HMDhzxj18xS8zBzLUe_ifxeSLs0hRJd2pBCwzCJ4jQqh5Ms57_ZIdc9kmi_RtbnOw11nVeyUuuhsxbL-8PjmRi6LW9_/s200/1949.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 113px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">People were allowed to have a celebration and all Soviet newspapers showed happy families united for New Year's Eve.</span><br /></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWLOt2jDAWkrb-lB7HEY6cQM2RvoLgsr4Wk2Y0ErjCnKJMrWB_TuswNq8-8-H5nyDgqzNLN40BSXoHoyXS6sS_38aUk8vn7TQb6-U12y2vm1jTvzXFpRbTGC6tohDewgtvNPoIjG8kE0L/s1600-h/SovNovGod.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419956790605509202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsWLOt2jDAWkrb-lB7HEY6cQM2RvoLgsr4Wk2Y0ErjCnKJMrWB_TuswNq8-8-H5nyDgqzNLN40BSXoHoyXS6sS_38aUk8vn7TQb6-U12y2vm1jTvzXFpRbTGC6tohDewgtvNPoIjG8kE0L/s200/SovNovGod.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 155px;" /></span></a><br />
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<em><strong><span style="color: #009900;">MODERN REALITY</span></strong></em><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">As time went by and the regime softened, Soviet traditions included great festivities for the New Year with an obligatory <span style="color: red;">Grandpa Frost's</span> visit often accompanied by his granddaughter <span style="color: red;">Snegurochka (Snow Maiden</span>).</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7iFxQxv56MLnjSZ3Nr4HqxZG3pthCF9nCbtfvytTYk221L43p3VUu85TL6m6u5pLnVC1dW06j25vPVjNZe4lMmand2Aw4XlcM3OxnziP-tpku4zlMouISxm-D9nXPbI8UqtresXqnkMiP/s1600-h/1971-Irkutsk.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419949422888212610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7iFxQxv56MLnjSZ3Nr4HqxZG3pthCF9nCbtfvytTYk221L43p3VUu85TL6m6u5pLnVC1dW06j25vPVjNZe4lMmand2Aw4XlcM3OxnziP-tpku4zlMouISxm-D9nXPbI8UqtresXqnkMiP/s200/1971-Irkutsk.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 136px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 200px;" /></span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Like his Western counterpart Santa, Russian DED MOROZ (Grandpa Frost) travels in a sled (albeit with a Troika) and there are no </span><span style="font-family: arial;">unreachable </span><span style="font-family: arial;">places for this omnipresent old man. He prefers the daytime for visits, though ))))</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: red;">Many people these days <span style="color: black;">start parting with their Western friends</span> on December 25 <span style="color: black;">(together with the Western World<span style="color: black;">)</span></span><span style="color: black;">,</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">then</span> continue <span style="color: black;">on the real</span> New Year Eve <span style="color: black;">with festive parties and Grandpa Frost </span><span style="color: black;">, enjoy</span> New Year's Day <span style="color: black;">with their families, </span><span style="color: black;">then</span>, celebrate Russian Orthodox Christmas on January 7th</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjFhSGKZ8x8fvwQiGqIDc-6gF8-rNjuiVr_RNAzN1awAm7E8hk2TtZ8hNITrakCRyvXUmSgL6UQ_bx52U8LWbP7dD9OR3W_UER_hauLOO0EPNBndlHV83z-CqpM6vDxqjl8UO8Ke34aTJA/s1600-h/PX.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419954714025551778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjFhSGKZ8x8fvwQiGqIDc-6gF8-rNjuiVr_RNAzN1awAm7E8hk2TtZ8hNITrakCRyvXUmSgL6UQ_bx52U8LWbP7dD9OR3W_UER_hauLOO0EPNBndlHV83z-CqpM6vDxqjl8UO8Ke34aTJA/s200/PX.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 93px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 139px;" /></a><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="color: red;">together with Russian Orthodox believers, <span style="color: black;">when children get another set of <span style="color: black;">presents</span></span><span style="color: black;">,</span> <span style="color: black;">and finally</span> every person <span style="color: black;">from </span>ex-USSR territories<span style="color: black;"> celebrates</span> the night of January 13 <span style="color: black;">(known as</span> Old-New Year<span style="color: black;">). </span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: red; font-style: italic;"><span style="color: #009900;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">P.S. So don't be surprised if your business partners in Russia wish you Happy New Year or simply are in the festive mood until January 13th. It's complicated, you know....well just like many other things in Russia.</span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-17253850994059222962009-12-19T21:59:00.029+01:002009-12-20T00:32:35.482+01:00Russian science today<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwO_MxX-arHy8zyPIfHnsWXOtqxYrCnuabS1vQZjKFyi6nq5DxM4qAAKXxp5bytIkU-H49S694LzyaliP2RtAROSEPFY7ZaXSaWltk1C5NW6SzJYvMy83JvJNE555o78kPtC4cUH91U8nj/s1600-h/untitled.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417072161918636962" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 146px; cursor: pointer; height: 200px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwO_MxX-arHy8zyPIfHnsWXOtqxYrCnuabS1vQZjKFyi6nq5DxM4qAAKXxp5bytIkU-H49S694LzyaliP2RtAROSEPFY7ZaXSaWltk1C5NW6SzJYvMy83JvJNE555o78kPtC4cUH91U8nj/s200/untitled.bmp" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">I always wondered what has happened to your country after perestroika. Where are all of your "great nation" science achievements?</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Asked by Roderigo, Spain</span></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Tough question to answer...may I say...and not because there is nothing to say, but just because there are so many topics to cover. </span></span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"></span></span><br /><em><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Well, to summarize and make it light,<span style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">science achievements </span>are still there)))</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > </span></span></em><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >To be more precise, I am going to mention most recent several ones:</span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"><br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrNtsWahZB-yXvAGOtslrLRiCo_HTHHv2Sdl3bvco9I9G7Qs-TWTEQFGBFzXY7-B9uxsYN7bGgRbIQ3SF_mNMOaFMfC5r6kAGYozhj-DePl1yWt2Y-hEZlzP9mNqRYZqweruvVHZueTrJt/s1600-h/nobel_medal.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417073411605345298" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 200px; cursor: pointer; height: 200px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrNtsWahZB-yXvAGOtslrLRiCo_HTHHv2Sdl3bvco9I9G7Qs-TWTEQFGBFzXY7-B9uxsYN7bGgRbIQ3SF_mNMOaFMfC5r6kAGYozhj-DePl1yWt2Y-hEZlzP9mNqRYZqweruvVHZueTrJt/s200/nobel_medal.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">NOBEL PRIZE </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /><a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br />http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/</span></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Russian winners of Nobel Prize (after 1990):<br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">1990 Peace: Mr.Mikhael Gorbachev</span> </span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">2000 Physics: Mr.Zhores Alferov</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2003 Physics : Mr.Alexei Abrikosov & Mr.Vitaly Ginzburg</span><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidh8LKyBq0UQab7l4BB0C5r4mHLhpNIytF4Fv-i1lJ3opULf_2eXhK7eeBy5NdvlWby9key_vcYgYgGr48Ueq67fS2QWAKPbQbIQEPmjayJwam55usDcBxUZBQz2sFVuRxvfiCGm49VjdP/s1600-h/180px-FieldsMedalFrontArchimedes.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417073206613962722" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 180px; cursor: pointer; height: 173px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidh8LKyBq0UQab7l4BB0C5r4mHLhpNIytF4Fv-i1lJ3opULf_2eXhK7eeBy5NdvlWby9key_vcYgYgGr48Ueq67fS2QWAKPbQbIQEPmjayJwam55usDcBxUZBQz2sFVuRxvfiCGm49VjdP/s200/180px-FieldsMedalFrontArchimedes.jpg" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">FIELDS MEDAL</span><br /><br />The <b>Fields Medal</b><span style=""> is a prize awarded to 2, 3, or 4</span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International congress - a mee</span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >ting that takes place every four years. The Fields Medal is often viewed as the top honor a mathematician can receive</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">.</span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > More on this medal you can see on Wikipedia: </span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal<br /></a></span><span id="formatbar_Buttons" style="display: block;"><span onmouseup="" class="on" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 3);ButtonMouseDown(this);" id="formatbar_Bold" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" title="Bold" style="display: block;" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);"><img class="gl_bold" alt="Bold" src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" border="0" /></span></span><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Russian winners of Fields Medal</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">1994 Mr.Efim Zelmanov</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">1998 Mr.Maxim Kontsevich</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2002 Mr.Vladimir Voevodsky</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2006 Mr.Grigori Perelman.*<br /><br /></span>* This funny guy has declined the medal even though he was awarded <span style="font-style: italic;">"for his contributions to geomerty</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> and his revolutionary insights into the analytical and geometric structure of the </span><a title="Ricci flow" style="font-style: italic;" href="http://www.blogger.com/wiki/Ricci_flow">Ricci flow</a><span style="font-style: italic;">"</span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><br /><br /><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRF35cISopi3zZlhSBLWY61dnLIdTloW3g40H62ig8MRFbgAIhQ7LX-bIB-666hOeRig9B9KYWLsc2tn8zBHdUZjwJbmS7rHk07myB2dTB1igA5ULwO1pB42jU80C5_KhrqkN7-qBO7Leh/s1600-h/Scale.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 144px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRF35cISopi3zZlhSBLWY61dnLIdTloW3g40H62ig8MRFbgAIhQ7LX-bIB-666hOeRig9B9KYWLsc2tn8zBHdUZjwJbmS7rHk07myB2dTB1igA5ULwO1pB42jU80C5_KhrqkN7-qBO7Leh/s200/Scale.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417094198771326786" border="0" /></a><br /><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;">ABEL PRIZE </span></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><a href="http://www.abelprisen.no/en/">http://www.abelprisen.no/en/</a><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="">Russian winner of Abel prize:<br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2009 Geometry: Mr.Michail Gromov<br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><em>SPACE<br /></em></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRYSgj5Z4xsEctpJuLLr2vFkUU0EvnPB2Yaxl719ZiLpXxq6oYdSJB_aIrxhvIhoOx0U1_Iw31UsoiA9Y_8r8zxA0id2GUWwBZew4cWEDpoau1-3xtm0CrDil2y4qEzPMjo0iOH5t0vsih/s1600-h/tma_15_undock.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 112px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRYSgj5Z4xsEctpJuLLr2vFkUU0EvnPB2Yaxl719ZiLpXxq6oYdSJB_aIrxhvIhoOx0U1_Iw31UsoiA9Y_8r8zxA0id2GUWwBZew4cWEDpoau1-3xtm0CrDil2y4qEzPMjo0iOH5t0vsih/s200/tma_15_undock.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417090236447771330" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><em></em> </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">I am not aware of any prizes for space science development but the fact that Russians are not doing that bad in this science can be proved by the blog of one of the members of the International Space Station.</span> <span style="font-family:arial;"><br /><br />Too bad Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev updates his Russian version of the blog from the </span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Aa6rnm8sSnolryCs2CzawMDDJky_0RCuStcSn1i86hRbrLupK7VWduyUiJabqlhli3Wi9Zc8XBAd8uAVKe0NcgPoqan2kAvg7yXfVblggnaEOgSjzPHxGWbHJJHPzR1v0H1MMHdLUerA/s1600-h/max_eda.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Aa6rnm8sSnolryCs2CzawMDDJky_0RCuStcSn1i86hRbrLupK7VWduyUiJabqlhli3Wi9Zc8XBAd8uAVKe0NcgPoqan2kAvg7yXfVblggnaEOgSjzPHxGWbHJJHPzR1v0H1MMHdLUerA/s200/max_eda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417090708741115458" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">Space Station </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://www.roscosmos.ru/DocDoSele.asp?DocID=528&ShowAdm=">http://www.roscosmos.ru/DocDoSele.asp?DocID=528&ShowAdm=</a></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" > more often that the English one</span><span style=";font-family:sans-serif;font-size:100%;" ><a href="http://rt.com/About_Us/Blogs/orbital-log/2009-10-15.html"> http://rt.com/About_Us/Blogs/orbital-log/2009-10-15.html</a></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://rt.com/About_Us/Blogs/orbital-log/2009-10-15.html"><br /></a></span><div id="let_body"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">P.S.</span><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">I hope my brief review gave you some ideas, Roderigo. Watch for the updates, though ))))</span></span>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-44912934287146158432009-12-01T22:14:00.021+01:002010-01-03T12:24:03.056+01:00Dinner and "good night" time for kids in Russia<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn2HITXo8AM0sXMTn9a53sO3V1ut_FPed-nw9zyCDqmOaAmFonWvLCpUqTqAncKK9PZZnkc0Q8MsovUvlKnuM3KaLxR6LBBDLPSUSbLqUhbZ_-0nK1X8jyI1mHZSRqngv411AjRG35hvES/s1600-h/21149589_1182779775_spk1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417053687899546626" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px; float: right; width: 200px; height: 150px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn2HITXo8AM0sXMTn9a53sO3V1ut_FPed-nw9zyCDqmOaAmFonWvLCpUqTqAncKK9PZZnkc0Q8MsovUvlKnuM3KaLxR6LBBDLPSUSbLqUhbZ_-0nK1X8jyI1mHZSRqngv411AjRG35hvES/s200/21149589_1182779775_spk1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div><span style="font-size:78%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">What time is dinner (supper) for small children? Middle age children? Older children? What time do Russian kids go to bed?</span> </span><br /><div><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:78%;" >Asked by Anza West</span><span style="font-size:78%;"> </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /><br />HISTORY</span><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOyPmGI7mdNJiPz6zdQ5o65ZB61y6Yw5xoIg5jzcIWn0WPxkJfq6yAMLcYx8CUg03qTYuiSAISPFAiTtC_0Xiz8bHRWUOpM4x7uVZDQ9-MPXRU94oN8hfE-4_m37IwEiv08WgLIswylrpJ/s1600-h/16.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411070173905689426" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 200px; cursor: pointer; height: 141px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOyPmGI7mdNJiPz6zdQ5o65ZB61y6Yw5xoIg5jzcIWn0WPxkJfq6yAMLcYx8CUg03qTYuiSAISPFAiTtC_0Xiz8bHRWUOpM4x7uVZDQ9-MPXRU94oN8hfE-4_m37IwEiv08WgLIswylrpJ/s200/16.jpg" border="0" /></a>T<span style="font-size:100%;">raditions of dinner time for all children in Russia (and I mean on all ex-USSR territory) have not changed much since Soviet times when everyday life of any family member was supposed to be organized according to the general recommendation of the State sanitary control.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">...Well, it sounds scary, but actually it was very well organized and every new mom could get an answer to any question regarding her child from her local pediatric center for children from 0 to 16 years old(polyclinic).</span><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgioXpYct7snX8HmIc15putFfPj0A-Cy4YwNVAz1n-t0SVnx-Hqu-aS2pr-A4LHkPTUxsBwL8b2TsNOoze1kQ-rGCJXspsC9fWd51NTANIA20zAmjfX_vbAvJTjcN-upuJofeYFJQ-9ZHBG/s1600-h/84899051_orig.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5411069386388105458" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; width: 320px; cursor: pointer; height: 290px; text-align: center;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgioXpYct7snX8HmIc15putFfPj0A-Cy4YwNVAz1n-t0SVnx-Hqu-aS2pr-A4LHkPTUxsBwL8b2TsNOoze1kQ-rGCJXspsC9fWd51NTANIA20zAmjfX_vbAvJTjcN-upuJofeYFJQ-9ZHBG/s320/84899051_orig.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Quiet often all walls of this centers were covered with the clear slogans. from how to teach your child to eat to what time to put him to bed. As you can see from the picture, it was advised that for the child's health the best schedule will be:</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">9 am -breakfast<br />1pm - lunch<br />4am - snack<br />7:30pm - dinner<br /><br />This recommendation applied to the children of all ages.<br /><br />It was important to finish dinner before 8:45pm, as at 8:45pm every child on the territory of ex-USSR was suppose to be in front of TV for his evening treat.<br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfl8Qk7jWlxW8yXSBnhEtGMRkxy3D8bSSGiiG07doNpOZvOebk4ocY-OMZUw-ooUbY3OuoKb-b9e4Zibw4Y57twamranCBOJFr-cG1xkPXwWBNCOwrlVS1kf_2ioNbQpbwsUfZ7qLhetiK/s1600-h/spokoinoi_nochi.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410755364899949906" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; width: 200px; cursor: pointer; height: 148px;" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfl8Qk7jWlxW8yXSBnhEtGMRkxy3D8bSSGiiG07doNpOZvOebk4ocY-OMZUw-ooUbY3OuoKb-b9e4Zibw4Y57twamranCBOJFr-cG1xkPXwWBNCOwrlVS1kf_2ioNbQpbwsUfZ7qLhetiK/s200/spokoinoi_nochi.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">He had a right for 15 minutes long </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >program <span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0); font-style: italic;">Good night , babies! (Spokoinoi noch malyshi!)</span> which was often the only daily TV entertainment of a child from 3 to 9 years old . </span></span></div><br /><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ></span></span></div><br /><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" >Music from this program put all babies in the sleepy mood and they were ready to go to bed leaving some free time for their parents.</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">REALITY</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Well, of cause many things has changed since then and now parents have access to all recommendations possible from all over the world. Some leave kids to eat when they want and to play until they fall asleep on the couch, others stick to a good old tradition of the grand-mothers.</span><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiLAc9Uip7Ix41MsRDwiTf5HsXeLBDNuv5rab9tNsfWjkUDo4p-Uhln5qW9vdtFjsBoeW1jTbmUOJf6YmqUwpp-3JV1hIimRPoNOMf9Xxg_gZMwOv4OkjHx1lmV8cQqPvBPg4kdUAGChLW/s1600-h/1254345661_b82eed2a7e7d.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiLAc9Uip7Ix41MsRDwiTf5HsXeLBDNuv5rab9tNsfWjkUDo4p-Uhln5qW9vdtFjsBoeW1jTbmUOJf6YmqUwpp-3JV1hIimRPoNOMf9Xxg_gZMwOv4OkjHx1lmV8cQqPvBPg4kdUAGChLW/s200/1254345661_b82eed2a7e7d.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422472711989570258" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">But usually, since many parents work and are rarely home before 7pm, the dinner for all is around 7 30pm, unless grandma or nanny helps to feed hungry small kids before that. Teenagers will wait for parents or will eat before 8pm if parents left something to be heated.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You rarely will see small kids wondering around on the street after 9pm. The rule of </span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">9pm-sleep-time</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> still works but even if kids don't go to bed right away they are not allowed to go outside after the dinner. Those who will not go to bed might spent evening in front of computer or TV....just like in any other country)))))</span></span><br /></span></div>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1198778372698078884.post-71776892684519771522009-11-29T14:19:00.029+01:002009-11-29T23:09:14.011+01:00Why so many Russian women go abroad<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjJpKe7Gd-V8wEErqHOSVVm0-pN1xzy-SC6uzki-brcAjIZKU7n93fl6GYn-fva_I83EYqep5GZTuHwDoB_wDHoHOIHLWIY8tc3ILzUjTIiWr593EzHgIH85H4jYUCHSIxcWWzrRxRetpM/s1600/1218144861_zagranicei2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjJpKe7Gd-V8wEErqHOSVVm0-pN1xzy-SC6uzki-brcAjIZKU7n93fl6GYn-fva_I83EYqep5GZTuHwDoB_wDHoHOIHLWIY8tc3ILzUjTIiWr593EzHgIH85H4jYUCHSIxcWWzrRxRetpM/s200/1218144861_zagranicei2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409535438249585730" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >I am an engineer and had seen many Russian speaking ladies in my field who left Russia for other countries. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >Why so many Russian women want to live abroad? </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" > asked by Akshay, India<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="font-family:georgia;">I don't know much about Russian emigration to India (still subject to be studied)...but Russian speaking emigration to European countries after perestroika has brought there over 5-6 million people.<br /><br />Well, it is bit too general as an observation to say that there are all girls ))))) but it is true that we see a way too many Russian ladies living in other countries comparing to Russian men. There are several reasons for that.<br /></span><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">TYPES</span><br /></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigl9yichS0h6yVtt2bWtV8jYZJzEsA4w0MIUsXLpZfHa-xJl6XrBqJMWrAX0_9eoIk4MVyICT9Fy_lJg4kVclMiMU3498ZS9PL1z9xxALGDHl9R-RktcxUAkZwDMo_6JAXVzp4W9R0bA9H/s1600/03.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigl9yichS0h6yVtt2bWtV8jYZJzEsA4w0MIUsXLpZfHa-xJl6XrBqJMWrAX0_9eoIk4MVyICT9Fy_lJg4kVclMiMU3498ZS9PL1z9xxALGDHl9R-RktcxUAkZwDMo_6JAXVzp4W9R0bA9H/s200/03.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409552677120721602" border="0" /></a><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>I am sure the modern population movement of Russian Federation is a subject of many studies in demography and social sciences. I might be wrong but my observation showed that there are 3 types of Russian speaking girls leaving their country:<br /><br />- students. Those who decided that they would want be able to get the most exclusive education ( read to move to Moscow or St.Petersburg) available back at home.<br /><br />- women in their 30th. Often already divorced with 1 or 2 children or just single. Who want to have another chance of having a family. (Looking at the demographics below will explain why it is gong to be harder for them at home)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /></span></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrrPGX79QZqi9QsnrdfLKoAIwRghiFJNMoGHXZy_UDxSBdFkktsxhM3YMdMaXYei3czTX2LwDHW7K53ddKsgJt4trny8b1EJxjrHw2QrlxoaORsgTZi1JVUsKQvZIGA9M60Ozephotn5BM/s1600/2gw9m4p.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 179px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrrPGX79QZqi9QsnrdfLKoAIwRghiFJNMoGHXZy_UDxSBdFkktsxhM3YMdMaXYei3czTX2LwDHW7K53ddKsgJt4trny8b1EJxjrHw2QrlxoaORsgTZi1JVUsKQvZIGA9M60Ozephotn5BM/s200/2gw9m4p.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409650982896933778" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span>- professional expat women of any age. <span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51); font-style: italic;">You can include here Russian models too</span>. What will we do without them)))) Often very successful in the work who consider their emigration as a new swing of their carrier . (This will make them part of the international professionals).<br /><br />Something tells me that you are more referring to the second group. Am I right?<br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">DEMOGRAPHICS<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJH6OEQALz4SXfS7zsi7Xkj4KPi7_qsWJhCq4F-Rw34f0eVdO6fk3B0y_fdvSi_l2ByMxNoNEt-n36zVmV7rEIuMWUmxkYXdtCJkdUI_s1TS65-Q4-_aSvrbh84VehyeYQO_aaO7PSQCi/s1600/Russian+men+vers+women.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 344px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoJH6OEQALz4SXfS7zsi7Xkj4KPi7_qsWJhCq4F-Rw34f0eVdO6fk3B0y_fdvSi_l2ByMxNoNEt-n36zVmV7rEIuMWUmxkYXdtCJkdUI_s1TS65-Q4-_aSvrbh84VehyeYQO_aaO7PSQCi/s400/Russian+men+vers+women.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409530298878759090" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As you can see from the graphics it is simply country specifics to naturally have more girls then men. I found an interesting graphics showing the proportion of population (in millions ) of the Russian territory by the age groups and gender. </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0); font-style: italic;"><br /><br />So it's true that there are more girls (pink) in Russia then there are boys (blue). </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><br /><br /></span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">PROFESSIONAL<br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Another reason could be their desire to work and really gain well their own life.</span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqSK5CyuXgYOHVQ5ugYsnaMdwntSV257jtdEwtVsEgJRkih8z1aPfT6iahhnyj0Hw45njyBgvsaL-AXWzLUKLZrd-lTrCYnR-cOslnM3WwcqkQ1VSL4tgbJP4U8hztXxPPs3HhNT6r6ezj/s1600/russian+mother.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqSK5CyuXgYOHVQ5ugYsnaMdwntSV257jtdEwtVsEgJRkih8z1aPfT6iahhnyj0Hw45njyBgvsaL-AXWzLUKLZrd-lTrCYnR-cOslnM3WwcqkQ1VSL4tgbJP4U8hztXxPPs3HhNT6r6ezj/s200/russian+mother.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409537945275460674" border="0" /></a></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">During the Soviet times Russian women may be didn't have access to the latest fashion trends, but they were definitely those of the first ones to vote in Europe (in 1917). Very few industries were closed for women and this cultivated the image of Soviet women-mother-comrade known to the rest of the world.<br /></span></span><br />Now the times of guaranteed work and stable salary in Russia have gone and many women and girls hope to gain their life at least as well as their sisters in Europe and other countries.<br /></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">They don't count only on the men to support them and since their early age know that they will have to work. That is why it is so important for our girls to study well and to learn foreign languages, hoping to get later in life chance to make their own assets work for them - </span><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">so called return on investment</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">"NATURAL" SELECTION<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />All women are known for their ability to adapt to new situation easier and quicker then men. There where men will feel frustration and anger women will be more patient and wise. Remembering that <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakboSSMK-ycbx3OsFPH9G1qR5yUaUFk1yw0u0TTocqp19-60i_7WsXHsKj8sT2oFJUu10lqbj1jh9eTzKcjBj1_Vl3OzUcp7EypJNOA5Lv1ICCpKe3jFarn_SvC3zyQkRmjlJTeGyuWAN/s1600/107253.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 128px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjakboSSMK-ycbx3OsFPH9G1qR5yUaUFk1yw0u0TTocqp19-60i_7WsXHsKj8sT2oFJUu10lqbj1jh9eTzKcjBj1_Vl3OzUcp7EypJNOA5Lv1ICCpKe3jFarn_SvC3zyQkRmjlJTeGyuWAN/s200/107253.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409551270029018226" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);">Besides those who already left once their home country are strong and ambitious. This applies to all internationals.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0P_TSpqsMWmAD9sGm3mg_2i5uMpPQpri8CxG5r1aCsI_cEnk55lAfqfYApPnX26NaYvF27BjvEuM8qdjyA_yoMr2nE0gTgNi3FSELQroDp7sJo_EyxJg06Zq0nzCIByWL73rSwiX46H7b/s1600/links(2)_kurnikova_otkazala.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 149px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0P_TSpqsMWmAD9sGm3mg_2i5uMpPQpri8CxG5r1aCsI_cEnk55lAfqfYApPnX26NaYvF27BjvEuM8qdjyA_yoMr2nE0gTgNi3FSELQroDp7sJo_EyxJg06Zq0nzCIByWL73rSwiX46H7b/s200/links(2)_kurnikova_otkazala.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5409551511528838994" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;" ><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Having said all of this, I must mention that it is not that Russian girls don't want to go back...it is just hard for them to do ones they get married and have children. (<span style="font-style: italic;">Like Ms.Natalia Vodyanova, for example)</span><br /><br />And surprisingly.... they are rarely single for a long time </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">abroad (<span style="font-style: italic;">like Anna Kurnikova, for example</span>) </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">))))</span></span></span><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" ><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><br /></span></span></span>Ask a Russianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02806511264932329695noreply@blogger.com0