Aren't Communists cute?
On a related note, Russia birth rate fell by 10.7% over the previous year. That makes three years in a row of declining birth rates, so maybe they need the births?
Giving advice to women about their sex life/habits and getting pregnant......not so sure that's a bad thing, is it?
There are probably a lot of Russian women who look at the influx of foreigners as an opportunity to escape Russia.
I learned it at the Capstone. When I was in Moscow, I was able to make myself understood.
Hey TW, since you speak Russian, are you interested in leading a Black Sea Impregnation Cruise? International cooperation to help raise their birth rate. My wife has already said I can't go.
How very selfless of you and how selfish of her. She can't share a little of the tremendous wealth she has? Sounds like she's a Republican.
you've got to keep those sluts in line, otherwise there's no telling what they will do
My Russian grad student teacher spent a quarter at Moscow State in the early 1980s. It gets a bit nippy (below zero F) there in January, so he bundled up in layers. On the metro, however, it is normally above freezing, so he started to peel off a layer or two. A babushka (literally grandmother, but colloquially any old woman in Russia) scolded him: "Young man, we don't take our clothes off in public."
Under the odd system you describe, it seems to me the frequency with which one found themselves sowing wild oats would depend on ability, technique and physical equipment. Jealousy would naturally be generated among those less gifted.
my wife had to go to st petersburg a couple of times for business (before i was working with them). they quickly decided after a few loads that russia was not a market they wanted to deal with. we do a lot of business in the republic of georgia and azerbaijan. those are some interesting folks.
I think humans are generally monogamous. Not everyone and in all cases, but generally. Intellectually, people can see, "I'm in an open relationship," but people tend to pair up and when the one you think you've paired up with seeks company elsewhere, it hurts.
There are a lot of unstated "taxes" that come from doing business in Russia. If you open a business and do not pay the police (or the local criminal gang) their protection racket money, you'll find your business torched (if the criminal gang was demanding money) or seized for failure to pay taxes (if the racket is run by the cops).
a lot of the south american suppliers we work with do huge volumes into russia, i am not sure how they have it set up to not get screwed repeatedly. i have heard several stories about multi million $ losses from selling into russia. i think if you work with the right folks, you can generally be ok as long as the market is good. i think with the u.s. and e.u. sanctions the russians have had to learn to be a little better customer (at least in the fruit business) so they can get fruit.
I have not dealt with Azeris, but the Russian view of political power tends to be that the whole point of having political power is to abuse that power for personal gain.
