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- Moscow
- Capital
- Russian Ruble (RUB)
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- 145,470,197
- Population
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Moscow Slideshow
Moscow
Travel Blogs from Moscow, Russian Federation
Lets start from the very beginning..........
... via Riga) on time, were picked up at the airport and deposited at our hotel. We dumped our bags and went down for our first Russian beer…unfortunately I was allergic to it and went as red as a beetroot (very apt) so Duncan got two and I ended up ...
Moscow day 2
... to wander around the Kremlin, to see the cathedrals and gardens etc. Then it was time to rest our sweaty, wearing bodies. Lunch in Moscow, what is the obvious choice?...Duh, Sushi of course!..And wow was this Sushi good. Was nice to feel like we were back ...
Arrived in Moscow!
Well we arrived yesterday late on and managed to find our hostel eventually! Mick is pretty good at reading russian which is great cos i cant read it at all and can only speak a few words!!! Hopefully getting our visas registered tomorrow, then to a ...
Arriving into Moscow
... class, which is a compartmentless sleeper carriage, seperated only by partitions between adjacent beds. Everyone on the train was Russian - felt a bit lost without other tourists around - who were probably sensible enough to either fly or take the day ...
From Russia with Love-or not so much in this City!
Unfortunately, Moscow for me wasn't a great experience. Although I enjoyed seeing the sights, and as part of this journey I’m glad to have experienced the city – but as a traveller it is not somewhere I would ever consider going back to. ...
The Ultimate Treasure Hunt
... as the Diamond Fund, this special vault holds one of the most incredible collections of precious jewelry on the planet, including the Russian Imperial Regalia. You have to buy a special ticket to enter, then you have to leave your cameras and cell phones ...
Moscow
... it is the size of Belgium and has 9 Million tube goers daily - more than New York and London combined. In comparison to Moscow, St Petersburg now seems like a small friendly village! We are staying in a complex of 5 hotels built to accomodate for the ...
Au Revoir Moscow
... and low and behold there was the Post Office, right next to the Metro Station. We bought our stamps from a kindly cashier, our broken Russian and her broken English were sufficient to get us by, and got the post cards into the Post. I have no idea how ...
Moskwa!
Po zasmakowaniu po raz pierwszy dalekobieznego pociagu (na szczescie wzial na pod opieke prowadnik, ktoremu bardzo przypadlismy do gustu:D) zjawilismy sie w Moskwie, ktora przywitala nas 30-stopniowym upalem. Mamy super hostel 5 minut od Placu ...
Mockiebckie urodziny!
Wczorajszy dzien zakonczyl sie nocnym spacerem nad rzeka Moskwa. Ni stad ni z owad, okazalo sie, ze juz po polnocy i Milosz z Obelem zaczeli swietowac swoje cwiercwiecze pijac nad rzeka tutejsze piwko. Z ranka Helmut z Magdalena przyodziali kawal chlieba ...
Kazakhstan
... was asked to do a mission spotlight, but fortunately they found someone else. The church service was nice. Both English and Russian were used and Gina gave a good sermon. We had some delicious gluten steaks in the evening, and then sang ...
The most expensive city in the world
... fans going crazy, singing and jumping in time on the train, which felt like ot was going to derail. There were also hundreds of Russian police on horses and Russian army, but even this did not seem to deter the fans, luckily we had Locomotive head bands ...
Living
... key. All turned out good when the landlady advised how to turn handles over the phone. We have the satellite TV and some Russian channels and I find myself watching mostly CNN - how surprised was I when I saw there the Red Square full of people during ...
Neo Nazis, Pepper Spray and the Super Bowl
One of the biggest worries before coming here was not about understanding Russian- it was definitely about whether I would get to watch the Super Bowl or not. Being in Ireland 3 years ago for the Super Bowl, I started watching the game at a bar but they ...
Moscow
... the Eussian alphabet. Once we had worked out what the letters were, they still didn't make any sense cos the words were all in Russian, but we got by somehow. We found some friendly people in Moscow, but we got some very cold stares as well. The metro ...
Goodbye St Petersburg - Hello Moscow
... like central London in that, it's often far faster to travel by metro than taxi! The only downside apart from trying to read Russian letters, which all seem back to front or the opposite to what they look like in Englisn, was the lack of smiling faces ...
Layover in Moscow
Welcome to the Moscow's top airport where -the crazy woman at the transfer desk screams Russian at everyone, even though no one can understand what she is yelling about because all the people here don’t have Russian visas and hence do not have any ...
Moscow Mayhem
... the sign, an arrow pointing left and right with names in Cyrillic underneath that as hard as I looked I couldn't make my brain interpret Russian. I took a picture of the map on my phone and pointed at the station I was trying to get to and tapped the odd ...
Mockba - dzien 4
Privet dziewojki i malcziki! Jak tylko swit nastal (o 11 rano) ruszylismy w ostatni dzien po Mockbie. Obowiazkowo nawiedzilismy obiekt kultu sakralnego - najblizsza cerkiew, naspiewalismy sie nieznanych piesni w nieznanym dla nas jezyku. Pozniejszym ...
Didn't catch the plane
... You have to stay and face your problems. RUN AWAY, Basty, RUN AWAY! The voices were screaming inside my head. The Russian actors where screaming something on the stage. I didn't understand it. Everybody was laughing. Terrible laughter. Sweat poured out ...
Via Moscow to Kazan
Hello, I am today in Moscow. I have very little time to take the train to Kazan. I decided to don't come back to Moscow cause the little time i have left in Russia, i will spend it in Oural and Siberia. Moscow is a nice city and i had local guide ...
Moscow Rules
... collection), the Tretayakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts - and managed to spend three hours at the Moscow Zoo! I saw by first Russian Grizzly Bear ;o) On Saturday we wondered over to the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour where we somehow ...
Old friends' day
Met up with a bunch of my old high-school friends today, had a great lunch together. They are all pretty cool guys, very talented, achieved a lot already, I'm very proud of them :) ...
Inside the Kremlin, Part 2, with bonus coverage
... subject in a future comment. Stay tuned. Now for the bonus coverage you were promised: For our last full night in Moscow we went to the Cafe Pushkin for dinner. For the second day in a row we were witnesses to a concert/recital ...