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Posted: 7/31/2021 8:26:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What are the gun laws like in the Ukraine? You have to be citizen. Lots of cool guns are available. You can get a license for just about anything but for pistols concealed/class 3 stuff you need to know someone to get the permit. Shotguns are really common and I think you need to start there before you can apply for semi auto rifles. Cans are over the counter. The real bugger is the ammo cost. It makes recreational shooting a rich mans game. Hunting is not great unless hunting boar or your in the car pathians. The soviets pretty much turned everything into Ag land. With the war lots of black market guns are available too. However shooting them is not easy unless you own a giant farm somewhere. |
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Posted: 7/31/2021 11:15:44 PM EDT
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Quoted: I always assumed Russians would want to be armed considering the consistent problems they have with Russia...  Quoted: A woman's feet are a window into her soul.   |
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Posted: 8/1/2021 12:06:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: I always assumed Russians would want to be armed considering the consistent problems they have with Russia... Quoted: A woman's feet are a window into her soul. What? ETA- in case you're unfamiliar with Russian history, 99% of the average Russian's problems are due to Russia itself. “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” The fact that most Russians aren't insisting on being armed to me is mind boggling. |
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Posted: 8/1/2021 12:52:01 PM EDT
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Ok, but it's a strange way to say it, rather than Russians dealing with corrupt governments/criminals/dictators. It sounds like *Russians are scared of themselves.*
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Posted: 8/1/2021 1:12:59 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Ok, but it's a strange way to say it, rather than Russians dealing with corrupt governments/criminals/dictators. It sounds like *Russians are scared of themselves.* Who runs the government? Who are the criminals? Who turned in "enemies of the state" to the KGB or Cheka? Russians. |
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Posted: 8/1/2021 2:06:34 PM EDT
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great thread OP
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Posted: 8/1/2021 3:28:55 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Who runs the government? Who are the criminals? Who turned in "enemies of the state" to the KGB or Cheka? Russians. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Ok, but it's a strange way to say it, rather than Russians dealing with corrupt governments/criminals/dictators. It sounds like *Russians are scared of themselves.* Russians. If you ever speak against anyone in our current administration, do you label them Americans? *I can't believe what the Americans are doing to our economy/Constitution/etc.* I just think that's a very odd way to phrase things, and I'd have never guessed that was what you meant. I wondered if you meant to put Ukrainians there, especially in a thread about Ukraine. [shrug] |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:48:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you ever speak against anyone in our current administration, do you label them Americans? *I can't believe what the Americans are doing to our economy/Constitution/etc.* I just think that's a very odd way to phrase things, and I'd have never guessed that was what you meant. I wondered if you meant to put Ukrainians there, especially in a thread about Ukraine. [shrug] Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Ok, but it's a strange way to say it, rather than Russians dealing with corrupt governments/criminals/dictators. It sounds like *Russians are scared of themselves.* Russians. If you ever speak against anyone in our current administration, do you label them Americans? *I can't believe what the Americans are doing to our economy/Constitution/etc.* I just think that's a very odd way to phrase things, and I'd have never guessed that was what you meant. I wondered if you meant to put Ukrainians there, especially in a thread about Ukraine. [shrug] It was in contrast to the statement about Ukrainians having guns due to Russians. I said Russians should also have guns due to Russians. I'm super bored of this digression though, I don't think it's important. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 2:27:22 AM EDT
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Love these threads, but I also reminds me of how many things I should have tried when I was younger. She's absolutely gorgeous Op.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 7:11:27 AM EDT
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Great thread - thanks. My son married a girl from Uzbekistan. Wonderful girl. Very traditional. Unbelievable beauty and one hundred percent mother.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 8:26:19 AM EDT
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One thing I discovered over the weekend is Ukrainian Netflix is better. I got part way through Rick and Morty during downtime there and didn't know it's not on USA version of Netflix.
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Posted: 8/2/2021 10:12:29 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: One thing I discovered over the weekend is Ukrainian Netflix is better. I got part way through Rick and Morty during downtime there and didn't know it's not on USA version of Netflix. HBO Max has the rights to it here. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 12:38:13 PM EDT
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https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/-ARCHIVED-THREAD-My-Ukrainian-was-delivered-shooting-pics-pg8-now-married-page-11-/5-2153952/?page=1
Quote HistoryWill OP be man enough once she gets her perm greencard and files for divorce to let us know? Forgot to update previous thread that perm greencard was last year. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 1:05:47 PM EDT
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Great thread op !
Very interesting to see all pictures and explanations. |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 3:46:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Forgot to update previous thread that perm greencard was last year. Congrats!  |
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Posted: 8/2/2021 6:34:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Forgot to update previous thread that perm greencard was last year. That's great. Congrats! |
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Posted: 8/3/2021 8:58:53 AM EDT
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Awesome thread!
Thank you for sharing! |
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Posted: 8/3/2021 11:41:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That store is much different than the grocery stores in Lviv here (but understandable):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF1Mp3X_g1kThe country store was a smaller village, in the hometown (around 10-15k people ) there is Sipo that I posted pictures of (one of largest chains in Ukraine), a McDuck, and this new store Trash Market. Prices in video seemed accurate. One thing a bit off from here is often large city stores are cheaper, there is more competition so stores in countryside would pay the same prices, with less competition and more delivery costs. So a Roshen factory chocolate store on outskirts of Kyiv you would pay 13.9 hryvnia (about $.50) for bubble cholocate but it may be 20 hryvnia in a store outside capital. In restaurants it varies of course, but in some beer will be cheaper than water, this is when you have a local beer vs a European Water both around ~$.70. Also from the video water is mis-represented a bit, you will find a bottle of Morshinska in the store but this almost always over 8 hryvnia ($.30) or small for ($.23), but in USA you would buy a 32 pack for $5 (about $.15 ea), most Ukrainians are actually paying more to drink water than people in USA are. In the country you would always get drinking water from the well and the bottle of water is just for traveling. Not sure what they do in larger cities.  |
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Posted: 8/7/2021 4:14:15 AM EDT
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Posted: 8/7/2021 4:55:17 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That was the best part about my last Russia trip. 90% of them simply do not give a fuck about covid, and will only maliciously follow the rules if absolutely required (mask under nose, mask on forehead, lol) and even that kind of rule following was rare. If you don’t mind, what kind of hoops does an American have to jump through to visit Russia nowadays, if any? I’d like to see the Moscow subway and some live music next year if things work out. |
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Posted: 8/7/2021 11:25:03 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: If you don’t mind, what kind of hoops does an American have to jump through to visit Russia nowadays, if any? I’d like to see the Moscow subway and some live music next year if things work out. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: That was the best part about my last Russia trip. 90% of them simply do not give a fuck about covid, and will only maliciously follow the rules if absolutely required (mask under nose, mask on forehead, lol) and even that kind of rule following was rare. If you don’t mind, what kind of hoops does an American have to jump through to visit Russia nowadays, if any? I’d like to see the Moscow subway and some live music next year if things work out. Right now you have to be married to a Russian citizen until covid is over. You'll also need a visa through the Russian consulate. I'd recommend going through a place like visa HQ to make sure it gets done right. There are some exceptions where if you're there for only a few days and only in Moscow or SPB then you don't need a visa... But you'll have to research that because I'm not sure of the details. Worthwhile trip though, highly recommended. The subways are indeed awesome.  Attached FileThis one is SPB though |
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Posted: 8/9/2021 4:17:57 PM EDT
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Russia is open for USA citizens or residents, I used VisaHQ also, they are great. Currently they require negative covid test and do not accept vaccines (Same as USA policy). The "invitation letter" from them (Visa-HQ) is overpriced and you can buy it from another source.
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Posted: 8/9/2021 5:04:20 PM EDT
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Excellent pic thread - thanks, OP.
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Posted: 8/9/2021 7:26:22 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Russia is open for USA citizens or residents, I used VisaHQ also, they are great. Currently they require negative covid test and do not accept vaccines (Same as USA policy). The "invitation letter" from them (Visa-HQ) is overpriced and you can buy it from another source. Oh nice! good to know, last time I went it was only open for immediate family members. Yes, the VisaHQ invitation is overpriced, but man it is easy lol. |
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Posted: 8/13/2021 11:06:40 PM EDT
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Quoted: Right now you have to be married to a Russian citizen until covid is over. You'll also need a visa through the Russian consulate. I'd recommend going through a place like visa HQ to make sure it gets done right. There are some exceptions where if you're there for only a few days and only in Moscow or SPB then you don't need a visa... But you'll have to research that because I'm not sure of the details. Worthwhile trip though, highly recommended. The subways are indeed awesome. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/45602/IMG_20190604_155219_jpg-2043376.JPG This one is SPB though Quoted: Russia is open for USA citizens or residents, I used VisaHQ also, they are great. Currently they require negative covid test and do not accept vaccines (Same as USA policy). The "invitation letter" from them (Visa-HQ) is overpriced and you can buy it from another source. Thanks you two. Hopefully I’ll be able to go next summer. |
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Posted: 8/13/2021 11:32:10 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thanks you two. Hopefully I’ll be able to go next summer. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Right now you have to be married to a Russian citizen until covid is over. You'll also need a visa through the Russian consulate. I'd recommend going through a place like visa HQ to make sure it gets done right. There are some exceptions where if you're there for only a few days and only in Moscow or SPB then you don't need a visa... But you'll have to research that because I'm not sure of the details. Worthwhile trip though, highly recommended. The subways are indeed awesome. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/45602/IMG_20190604_155219_jpg-2043376.JPG This one is SPB though Quoted: Russia is open for USA citizens or residents, I used VisaHQ also, they are great. Currently they require negative covid test and do not accept vaccines (Same as USA policy). The "invitation letter" from them (Visa-HQ) is overpriced and you can buy it from another source. Thanks you two. Hopefully I’ll be able to go next summer. I'll probably be there next summer too with my son and wife. Let me know if you need any tips  Oh btw the short term exception to visas doesn't apply to Americans |
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Posted: 8/16/2021 2:48:01 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Thanks you two. Hopefully I’ll be able to go next summer. Belarus is like Russia-Lite if you want to avoid the visa, but you can't buy tickets from a US vendor. I think we are going to meet the Russian family in Europe in future. |
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