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Topic: Moderators' peformance |
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Forum: Way to Russia Feedback Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:30 pm Subject: Moderators' peformance |
| I think you guys are doing a good job. In addition to the fact that a lot of people dont post much anymore, I think the paucity of votes could do with the fact that there was already a "Rate our perfo ... |
Topic: russians visting usa |
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Forum: Russian Visa Forum Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 7:04 pm Subject: russians visting usa |
dennis06: Straight from the horses mouth, so to speak: http://moscow.usembassy.gov/consular/consular.php?record_id=reqvdocs
Good luck to you. |
Topic: russians visting usa |
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Forum: Russian Visa Forum Posted: Thu Sep 15, 2005 6:07 pm Subject: russians visting usa |
I'm not sure about the exact amount, but they do need significant amounts of it. The requirement is that Russians applying for a visa to US need to be "financially stable & secure".
You ought to g ... |
Topic: Hurricane Katrina |
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Forum: Talk Lounge Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2005 2:40 pm Subject: Hurricane Katrina |
That email is a bit off in a few ways:
FEMA became part of the Department of Homeland Security about 2 years ago, so technically FEMA is no longer an independent agency. It has to answer to the DHS ... |
Topic: Hurricane Katrina |
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Forum: Talk Lounge Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:53 am Subject: Hurricane Katrina |
| I think chucknfw is most correct here. It isn't the US govt that is to blame per se, but moreso local and state officials who seemingly didn't have an adequate plan other than to "get everyone out now ... |
Topic: VODKA |
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Forum: Talk Lounge Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:09 am Subject: VODKA |
| tdk2fe: The store Beverages & More has all Baltika beers (Light, Dark Drafts, etc) and some Russian vodkas that you dont catch in the US. Beverages & more is like a department store, but it only sells ... |
Topic: Ideas for Presents |
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Forum: Talk Lounge Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2005 11:45 pm Subject: Ideas for Presents |
Topic has been discussed to death in the past. Check out this threads here: http://www.waytorussia.net/TalkLounge/viewtopic.php?t=1688&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15
http://www.waytorussia.net/Tal ... |
Topic: SOCIALISM/COMUNISM WAS GOOD OR BAD TO RUSSIAN PEOPLE??? |
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Forum: Russian Contexts, Myths and Truths Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:14 pm Subject: SOCIALISM/COMUNISM WAS GOOD OR BAD TO RUSSIAN PEOPLE??? |
Verena: There are threads and posts all over this forum and pages on this website that should and can answer your questions. Try using the search option on the upper right hand corner on most pages.
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Topic: Electrical Compatibility |
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Replies: 8
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Forum: Transport Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 9:46 pm Subject: Electrical Compatibility |
| The UK is mentioned a few times in that topic. And as Wavetossed mentioned, some of the older plugs and voltage there don't conform to normal European standards like the newer plugs there do, so he sh ... |
Topic: Electrical Compatibility |
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Forum: Transport Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 6:00 pm Subject: Electrical Compatibility |
| We discussed this in detail not too long ago in this thread here: http://www.waytorussia.net/TalkLounge/viewtopic.php?t=3342 including pictures of what converters you need to use and everything. |
Topic: Racism and tolerance |
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Forum: Talk Lounge Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2005 12:41 am Subject: Racism and tolerance |
| e won the game. congratulations!! 'because of the little canal'. I would say the canal could have been anywhere as well... I must say i liked wavetossed remark about this area looking so tidy There ... |
Topic: Russian block of flats of communist era |
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Forum: Russian Contexts, Myths and Truths Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 6:37 pm Subject: Russian block of flats of communist era |
| Either they are in Germany or Holland. I'd settle on Rotterdam, or Amsterdam because of the little canal on the bottom left corner and the creeks that run through the complex You dont see that in Germ ... |
Topic: Russian block of flats of communist era |
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Forum: Russian Contexts, Myths and Truths Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2005 1:57 am Subject: Russian block of flats of communist era |
I'm gonna take three shots at it:
a. East Berlin (or somewhere in East Germany)
b. Prague, Budapest Warsaw, Bratislava (or any large city in a Warsaw Pact country)
c. Any major city in the Baltic ... |
Topic: Russian cases - HELP!!!! |
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Forum: Practise Your Russian Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 6:03 pm Subject: Russian cases - HELP!!!! |
No one was saying that it isn't a Slavonic language, but that its a different Slavonic language than Russian.
Secondly the latinization is influential in Czech because in order to pronounce some C ... |
Topic: Russian cases - HELP!!!! |
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Forum: Practise Your Russian Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 8:15 am Subject: Russian cases - HELP!!!! |
The closest language to Russian is definitly Bulgarian.
Funny thing about that: I recently saw that Tom Hanks flick "The Terminal" where he spoke "Russian" pretty well, only to find out at the IM ... |
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