On a personal level they are, but they are also a very suspicious people and the officialdom is a joke. You encounter anyone in any kind of uniform and you're going to have difficulties.
When you go over (might have changed recently) you have to check your documents at a local government office with 3 days.
3 days I went, 3 days I queued for 3 or 4 hours and each day the official would just pull down the shutter and say he was on a break and gave absolutely no idea when he would return (it was usually 2 or 3 hours later).
Not bad for being on holiday, eh! 3 days queuing in a gritty old, rickety scout hut.
They don't like you smiling at them either. Never smile at anyone in a uniform, they just glare back at you with disdain.
You’ve made Russia sound so appealing I’ve just cancelled the flights to Spain in the summer and booked for RussiaOn a personal level they are, but they are also a very suspicious people and the officialdom is a joke. You encounter anyone in any kind of uniform and you're going to have difficulties.
When you go over (might have changed recently) you have to check your documents at a local government office with 3 days.
3 days I went, 3 days I queued for 3 or 4 hours each time and each day the official would just pull down the shutter and say he was on a break and gave absolutely no idea when he would return (it was usually 2 or 3 hours later). I went with my in-laws and they said it was always like this and they encountered this sort of thing on a daily basis.
Not bad for being on holiday, eh! 3 days queuing in a gritty old, rickety scout hut tomsee a grumpy old git of a jobsworth.
They don't like you smiling at them either. Never smile at anyone in a uniform, they just glare back at you with disdain.
The people are lovely, but the red tape is ridiculous.You’ve made Russia sound so appealing I’ve just cancelled the flights to Spain in the summer and booked for Russia
Yeah, on a work visa you would have no problems at all.Perhaps as I’m on a work visa it’s different but I’ve been for a week before and had no such issues. The visa entry cost is £1,000 a year so that may be why.
Actually the entrance into the country through visa control has always been for me one of the easiest - no queue straight in. Stopped once in a car in Moscow and had to show all paperwork but was always pretty amicable.
Yeah, on a work visa you would have no problems at all.
I have been to Sochi, Volgograd, Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Same problems all over.
My experience of them is that they’re loud, brash but friendly on an individual basis. Good sense of humour to. Don’t think much to their football fans, animals.The people are lovely, but the red tape is ridiculous.
Much prefer St. Petersburg personally.I like the place - going next month. Great sights, great bars and places to eat. Especially in Moscow.
I do find a few aspects of this intriguing not over deaths or Lives at risk .
But the potential for at least 15 recent deaths mostly explained away as natural but now finally treated seriously with due suspicion felt originally from within this Community under threat of liquidation .
Then If they are deemed as murders the techniques employed that covered those tracks or not, preceeded and followed by
the two extreme cases that have employed Sinister substances while being transported on domestic flights.
I have always thought our response on the very first one Involving Plutonium being carried on a domestic flight was inadequate .
Then we get into the deaths of this guys wife and son and that up to now at least this attempt has been unsuccessful and I hope that remains the case.
If that remains the case the weapon of choice would be deemed poor and unsuccessful for somebody.
No I'm not that's whats tacitly suggested by emphasising the two cases from the run of the mill strangling or whatever.You are assuming that the method was being used simply to kill someone. That was only part of the idea. The message of a horrible death even in a ‚safe‘ country is more important than merely a quick death.
'Twas ever thus, Otis. When I was working there in the late '80s, I had to chase up some official paperwork that was late. It seems that the bloke whose job it was to sort out this paperwork was on holiday and wouldn't be back at work for another 2 weeks. No-one was deputising for him, so all his work piled up until his return. Madness. I will agree, however, that on a personal level, the Russians are very friendly and extremely warm hearted. But officialdom are the most frustrating and inefficient bunch of bastards in the world.On a personal level they are, but they are also a very suspicious people and the officialdom is a joke. You encounter anyone in any kind of uniform and you're going to have difficulties.
When you go over (might have changed recently) you have to check your documents in at a local government office with 3 days.
3 days I went, 3 days I queued for 3 or 4 hours each time and each day the official would just pull down the shutter and say he was on a break and gave absolutely no idea when he would return (it was usually 2 or 3 hours later). He would send a whole queue away, all the people departing grumpy and saddened. I went with my in-laws and they said it was always like this and they encountered this sort of thing on a daily basis.
Not bad for being on holiday, eh! 3 days queuing in a gritty old, rickety scout hut to see a grumpy old git of a jobsworth.
They don't like you smiling at them either. Never smile at anyone in a uniform, they just glare back at you with disdain.
Is there any proof they didn't murder Stephen Hawking as well, because if there's no proof they didn't then they must have done it!
Is there any proof they didn't murder Stephen Hawking as well, because if there's no proof they didn't then they must have done it!
Cretin.
I’m quoting Tom Watson - you’d better go and ask him.
For once I have to agree - on foreign policy . Corbyn for some reason never outwardly condemns brutal regimes - there was a toe curling interview on Venezuela where he would not condemn the violence from the government - saying I deplore violence - without actually criticising the oppressor is always his way.
The veneer slipped for a minute as well and he started to get very agitated.
Turn the gas off?Coz they might turn the gas off..?
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Anyone getting the feeling more is going on behind 'just this particular episode',gastly as it is.
It feels to me there are other triggers in play given the introduction of certain historical factors.
Crimea /Ukraine etc.Like what?
'Theresa May' and 'intelligence' are seldom words I would place together in the same sentence.Still getting the feeling something else has gone on or is going alongside this case.
TM sharing extra inteligence with certain EU leaders last week plus the points I made earlier .
Yep! Only yesterday morning his neice was saying they had only a "1% chance of survival".Interesting development regards his daughter starting to show signs of recovery after a couple of interviews suggesting they might be better off dead ,so good luck to her.
Three and a half weeks to detrrmine the door handle though??
Interesting development regards his daughter starting to show signs of recovery after a couple of interviews suggesting they might be better off dead ,so good luck to her.
Three and a half weeks to detrrmine the door handle though??
Yep! Only yesterday morning his neice was saying they had only a "1% chance of survival".
Nothing adds up, does it?
"Police said 500 witnesses had been spoken to and officers had trawled through more than 5,000 hours of CCTV."
And yet no descriptions or CCTV footage released?
Yep! Only yesterday morning his neice was saying they had only a "1% chance of survival".
Nothing adds up, does it?
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