Originally posted by sunnysan
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2) Agree - Moscow Times does crime stats every week. In Winter the "bodies found" figure goes up to 500-1000 a week.
3) Depends what you want to do. I lived in a hotel and the bank paid for everything so it was pretty easy. $50 solves any problem you might encounter with the cops - I forget what it is now, but there is a very handy Russian phrase you can remember (something like "is there an on-the-spot fine I can pay").
4) If you can get above the middle class level, I'm sure it's brilliant.
5 & 6) They are crazy ****ers, but good luck to em.
7) If you've got specialist knowledge they haven't got in the country then you will be well rewarded (it was my best paid contract ever - at current exchange rate it would have been 1.5-2x the UK rate). It's not an easy place to sell commodity skills.
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