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Clo-ser than Englsih, but not really "very close."
They DO watch Americans in particular.
Trust me.
Well, maybe with one eye
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Originally Posted by boxus
More to the list;
Irony of Fate (NYE custom to watch)
Moscow does not Believe in tears
Quiet Flows the Don (and reading the book is a must)
Love and Dove
Striped cruise (Polosatiy reys)
Love affair at work (Sluzhebniy roman)
Girls (Devchata)
Welcome, or no entry for unauthorised people (Dobro pozhalovat ili postoronnim vhod vospreshen)
12 chairs (only necessarily directed by Mark Zakharov with Andrei Mironov in the title role).
Incredible adventures of Italians in Russia.
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Originally Posted by boxus
Also;
Yellow flowers and even number flowers are for things like a grave. For a girl, give an odd number and any color but red. Put your empty glass bottle on the floor, not the table, and watch that spiced vodka, lol.
Why? I hear it for the first time. Many our girls like red roses.
Striped cruise (Polosatiy reys)
Love affair at work (Sluzhebniy roman)
Girls (Devchata)
Welcome, or no entry for unauthorised people (Dobro pozhalovat ili postoronnim vhod vospreshen)
12 chairs (only necessarily directed by Mark Zakharov with Andrei Mironov in the title role).
Incredible adventures of Italians in Russia.
Why? I hear it for the first time. Many our girls like red roses.
Yellow flowers and even number flowers are for things like a grave. For a girl, give an odd number and any color but red. Put your empty glass bottle on the floor, not the table, and watch that spiced vodka, lol.
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Originally Posted by boxus
Ah! Meant to say yellow, not red.
Ahhh, I see...
No, just the opposite... at the funeral usually use a red flowers.. roses or carnations
What do you mean people from the Moscow Metro watched you? I don't understand what you mean...unless you worked for them (you talk about the railyards).
The workers at the rail yards had a hard time keeping me safe because I was not familiar with the way things worked. I was there mainly to do warrenty checks on the work we would do to the control systems on the locomotives power systems, traction motors and other electrical stuff.
We worked on the systems of these and other larger intercontinental locomotives.
It was really dangerous in ways but aside from almost getting run down by several trucks (wheel/motor assemblies carriages ride on) I never stepped on an electrified rail (3rd rail) and cooked myself. At first they watched me closely until they saw I was competent enough to not get killed by doing something stupid. It took me awhile to start to see things that to them were obvious hazards. If I needed to pull a buss box to be shipped back to be rebuilt I was never allowed to be alone at first.
I can add something else that happened to my wife on Moscows subway in 2008 when we were there. She was relieved of her cellphone and wallet by an expert pickpocket on the metro. Keep your valuables in your bra.
Why does every thread about/concerning Russia turns into a 1000+ page arguing?
They don't. This one hasn't. We're trying to clarify whether Americans get watched or not (clarifying is not arguing), and some people on any of the Europe forums have a problem with seemingly naive Americans who don't speak the language of the target country they want to live in. That same dynamic (call it arguing, if you must) plays out often on the Euro forums. But our OP is studying the language. The differences of opinion are on whether his dream is realistic or not. But no one is fighting on this thread. We're simply discussing. This isn't one of those Ukraine threads...
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