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  1. Sergo

    Another kind of beauty!

    Hi Rustam - good to hear you again. I like Zelenograd, I have been there a lot of times - but always on business, so those beautiful photos were a surprise for me - I've never seen those places there. That's great you are in love - I remember myself twenty years ago... The difference was I...
  2. Sergo

    Another kind of beauty!

    You know, our old cemeteries are usually more like a forest with big trees then lawns. When we come to visit graves of our relatives - we usually take with us some food and drinks (very often Vodka). Some of that is usually left on the graves - for the birds or even for the homeless people to...
  3. Sergo

    What do you pay for gas?

    I understand you, Robert - of course there are people everywhere who just LUV big expensive cars, no matter if they need them for practical reasons or not. But I think that even in the USA there are lots of people who need SUVs for driving, not for showing off. Life is never in two colors, you...
  4. Sergo

    Hello from Russia!

    :) At least I will try.
  5. Sergo

    Lawns & The American Obsession

    Thanks Moto, green is greenish... This Summer had not been all that hot here, I had to turn on my system of autowatering only for a week or so. Not much pests too - the least quantity in several years... But I hadn't made any new lawns so far, being too busy with construction works done on my...
  6. Sergo

    Another kind of beauty!

  7. Sergo

    What do you pay for gas?

    And I think that quite a lot of people buy SUVs because they HAVE to, not because they think about the status thing etc. We had to buy our Suzuki Grand Vitara, as otherwise it is too difficult to get to our country house even in Summer - the road is good only for tanks... And last Winter we had...
  8. Sergo

    Another kind of beauty!

    Not yet. Though talks are in progress even now. Customs people uderstand the situation, but militia wants to get its cut, so it is not as easy to solve as I'd hoped.
  9. Sergo

    Another kind of beauty!

    That's you I want to thank for a possibility to speak about Russia, dear Flower. As to labirinths-like streets... You know, as the SPb had been a city to be built according to a plan from the beginning, most streets are straight and comparatively wide. But as some more modern buildings...
  10. Sergo

    Hello from Russia!

    Yes I did - I've always liked to listen to SW on my radio. But when you have two different versions of the same event - you can only guess which one is truth. By the way, those waves were very heavily noised then... We even had a "noiser" station near our house in 60-es... I've meant Belousova...
  11. Sergo

    What do you pay for gas?

    Nevermind, Moto... It is my love for money that helped me here. And my nature to look out for mistakes of others... :) Bye, I'll leave for home in a minute.
  12. Sergo

    What do you pay for gas?

    Vice versa: that's one pound that equals 1,86 dollars. So roughly it is half pound that equals one dollar... Alas, dollars are much cheaper than pounds... :D
  13. Sergo

    What do you pay for gas?

    Ehhhh... Let me see... We pay for 1 L of mark-95 gas about 17 roubles. Mark-95 is the kind of gas we use for our Grand Vitara, and most people use for their imported cars. 17 roubles today is exactly $0,60. Not too bad for a country with LARGE resources? By the way, your arithmetics is...
  14. Sergo

    I just finished reading...

    I agree with you to some extent. Though, an average prostitute and "a provider of faith" both do not believe in what they supposedly sell, and do not especially like their customers. And there are some exceptions in both cases: there are prostitutes who like their business "for the fun of...
  15. Sergo

    Another kind of beauty!

    Yep, SPb is a beautiful city, especially if you look on the facades and walk the city center. There are lots of sites there I long to make photos of, and I already have lots of photos from my TWO previous visits to Leningrad: I came there with my friends for a week some Winter 25 years ago or...
  16. Sergo

    I just finished reading...

    No, no - Religion is MUUUUCH MOOOORE profitable business, than prostitution. And much more dangerous. Wrong choice of a prostitute could lead to an illness, supposedly cureable without difficulty, and wrong choice of a religion could cost one's life and even much more lives of innocent people...
  17. Sergo

    I just finished reading...

    Ha, really my opinions on the Faith and Religion differs very much: I think that faith is good, and sometimes is the only thing that holds a person in the upright position. I happen to see it here in Russia quite frequently. And religion is just the business of those whom I call "the providers...
  18. Sergo

    I just finished reading...

    Errr... ;) I've thought you had here some restrictions... I could have told you my personal opinion on religion... But I rather not: I like to keep coming here sometimes. Yep, I am - though I do not believe my language skills would make it possible for me to understand fully the beauty of...
  19. Sergo

    I just finished reading...

    Yep, thanks, I know, but Michelangelo is much more interesting for me, as I was quite interested in sculpture some time ago... And am even now. And all those obstakles are the realities of life one must learn to live with. Yep, "Historical fiction". I think that Stone accomplished good...
  20. Sergo

    I just finished reading...

    Hi Jenn! Thanks for noticing me. As to Kenny... Of course I cannot own him. So I hope we will be able to keep our small talk, and as to your losing him... Mmmm... I really do not think I could be able of stealing something, and even less so - somebody... :D
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