haha, it's a character from very popular Russian cartoon and childrens book

to me like second home country... :)

I second what Jesus H said. Go Yalta (ing) but do it April-May, fyck, I just gave out my best getaway recipe!

I know, just making my usual bad taste remark.

I love the Crimea! I'm addicted to that air, it smells totally different. There are so many interesting places to see there!

Yalta is beautiful, and you're right, I'd stay away from it during high season since it gets too crowded.

I live in Russia, Novosibirsk.
Don't forget, Russia VERY big and therefore inhomogeneous country with very different cities. They have big and small city, clean and dirty, with police rules and without, with roads and without...
People in Russia not good or bad - just different than another countries like Canadian different than France etc. And have some special parts in charachter.
Many people very smart, but most people not smart - because they must fight to live, hard work for small salary. because our prices VERY expensive! Tax etc. Credits for house etc. 15% and upper per year (I know in America 4%). My rent $1000 for small apartment with kitchen, bath, 1 room and small bedroom.
In my city (3rd in Russia for biggest), average salary is $700 per month!
Politics made our life hardest, they don't wish to rich people with good life. Why? Because if people will have free time in life (not work, sleep...) - people wish to know where money from resource sale? Therefore politics everytime up our tax and scam money from resource sale.

"With bad laws and good government officials is quite possible to run the country. But if the officials are bad, do not help and the best laws. "
Otto von Bismarck

after reading this thread, i just became a gfy expert about living in russia

Yalta is a most shitty place in Black Sea you can even imagine:
1) The Sea itself is very dirty there
2) The beach is horrible
3) The territory is extremely dirty
4) People are rude and thievish (because it's Ukraine - a very poor country)

There are much more good places on the Black Sea. For example, if you are coming for hot girls and glamor parties, you have to go Sochi. If you want a crystal clear sea, no dirt, no poor Ukrainian beggars, no noise in the night time, got to some mountainous place near Anapa (e.g. Sukko etc). This is a suggestion from a guy who was every fucking where on the Black Sea (Russia, Ukraine, Georgia and Abkhasia) :2 cents:

Lilit, do you come from that part of the world or you just come visit?
What do you think about Yalta Gathering?

As i read the board many people go to Ukraine to have fun.

And... at least I have some other Sea resorts to compare like Mediterranean Sea, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. I'm traveling a lot.

Overall, "russians are people too"??

Being your next door mate i understand what are you talking about. But GFY crowd is US based mostly so they need more colors then simple facts to understand us :)

Exactly. Cheap HIV-positive whores, cheap weed and heavy drugs there.

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:pimp

And the most important thing. You DON'T NEED A VISA to visit Ukraine! Everyone can enter their country at any time :)

I have cyberxxx unbanned now. I can read all his crap. I'm not surprised we're not friendly nations anymore. I'd rather go Moldova then Russia for vacation because Russia is full of cyberxxx type.

Barely. Just a prototype. After all genetic mutaions.. barely.

Who are "WE"??? I have a lot of friends among of Ukrainians, but you are some sort of stinky junk who still dreaming about Nazzi SS guys who "came to give you a freedom in 1940's". I have no respect to such people like you, and more that 90% of Ukrainians will agree with me. You are usual Nazi бандеровец, who doesn't deserve any respect. So fuck off and die for your Hitler.

P.S. To the others. I have nothing against normal (usual) Ukrainians. They are the same people as Russians - no real difference. But I really hate all these Nazi nationalists from the west of Ukraine (most of real Ukrainians don't like them too). Simple look at his psi above about Russians. This fucking greedy animal doesn't deserve any indulgence :2 cents:

How many threads I did start about Ukraine? Right, not a single one! How please tell me someone, why this old and saggy troll is always starting his shit against Russia? WTF with you, Nazi worm?

Please, DO read Yalta gathering thread first, what I just posted for you. And if you get to refer to NAZI thing again i will do my best to get you banned for life here.

This thread is strated to see how Americans and other countries see Russia for themselves. There is nothing agins that in the rules. You, cyberxxx, are violating Rule #9 calling me Nazi and you should be banned for that.

Baddodg, or whoever is in charge, please, proceed accordingly.

Would you suck someone's dick to get me banned, or do you think it will happen for nothing? Everything has a price in this word, so be nice - pay for it!

If you didn't get it, I can repeat it again: you are real Nazi. Everyone who don't understand what I mean, just read this:

:321GFY

This is an answer to a question given above. And following your logic they are Nazi too because they are asking this question. I personally think Russians are from Moon or Mars because their genetics has been modified many times.

But what you did is a direct violating of the rule #9.

Go on clown, prove it, suck someone's cock and get me banned. I'm waiting.

You are sooooooooo disgusting and pathetic....

Compared to what...?

This thread has turned a bit aggressive :(

Yalta looks nice but seems a bit cold.

I was thinking about maybe going to odessa. but after this thread im thinking sochi, well all over the place!

i checked hotel prices in Odessa but they were horrible - and i wasn't even looking at super high end places.

but for those who like beach, music and hot chicks: http://www.kazantip.com/

Thanks for the heads up! I was hooked on kazantip when i saw the video about it on VBS.TV. I wanna go so bad. I admit Im hooked on russian girls

You are wrong here. NKVD was not RUSSIAN, it was SOVIET organization ruled by people of different nationality (mostly Jews and Georgians), and NKVD didn't kill only Ukrainians, it did kill millions of people in the USSR. The biggest part of killed were Russians (simple because they were the majority in the USSR).

What about starvation, so it also wasn't happened only in Ukraine. It was everywhere in the USSR those times. And every region has his own butcher who was taken a decision to confiscate grain (the main food for those times). For example in Ukraine the role of butcher was played by Vlas Chubar - the chairman of SNK Ukrainian Soviet Socialistic Republic. Yes, you got his name right - the bastard was Ukrainian. So not some unknown Russian guy has initiated starvation in Ukraine. It was an Ukrainian commie with a name, biography and picture:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...61/Chubar1.jpg

I mean the starvation in Ukraine has absolutely real face. The the name of this face is Vlas Chubar (just google about this motherfucker).

As I said above, many other regions of the USSR were hit by starvation and many millions people of that multi-national country have died of it. Don't blame Russians, blame COMMIES.

So you guys have a lot to learn about the Soviet history if you are going to argue about it. For example, have you seen me arguing about the American history? Guess why? :)

I haven't tried Russian food, anyone got any recommendations for vegetarian Russian dishes?

Why is your old bones getting cold? Dentures getting too hard to put back in?


HI, I AM SALLY RAND!!! and I FIX THINGS! like a computer monitor with my son. I am a 60+ year old fuck who gets off pretending to be a girl.

http://media.lawrence.com/img/photos...cf7613005fe067

yes the gray haired old guy in the picture is "Sally Rand".

During 3-year German occupation of Ukraine, Nazi (mostly from Ukrainian Waffen-SS) have killed 800 thousands of Jews, more than 500 thousands of Ukrainians, 200-220 thousands of Poles, and more than 400 thousands of Russian war prisoners.

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http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/k/a/kazibad/075bui.jpg

Doesn't sound good even if they were "just looking for a protection against NKVD" :2 cents:

I think there are problems with human rights in every single country. Can you name a place where human rights are honoured? :winkwink:

Be careful in Odessa. I had a not so pleasant experience there :)

what happened?

Beautiful women and lots of crazy people..

Why every conversation about Russia in forum threads or in comments section on you tube turns into a fight, argument about WW2 or stuff like that... People are so full of prejudice and just can't let it go. I choose not to participate in this

I have to agree. Yalta is my favorite place to visit. :thumbsup

S-Petersbug, my impression

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this is how i see russia... looks like it's grey, sad and depressing everywhere... no wonder there are so many alcoholics there

Russia looks good in pictures with a good camera angles. A lot of smart people.
But in most cases a lot of aggression. People rarely smile from the good. More like laugh with someone else.
Highly developed caste system. People on the good cars are cool. Officials have likened to the gods - they are all allowed. The police are working for themselves.
BTW, the same in Ukraine.

It's St. Petersburg not grayer than Finland, and has much less alcoholics than in Finland.

However, Russia is very huge and there are lots of much better (I mean the weather and nature) places. I'd say thousands of times better than gloomy holland and other dwarf northern countries :2 cents:

Its grey but its also very criminal and very corrupt and ive had first hand experience of the kind of poor ethics of dealing with Russians in business. Also its kind of a criminal state when you look at what has happened to the likes of Khodorkhovsky.

http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-russ...l-trial-speech