Rubber Duck
15th December 2007, 01:58 PM
Take Moscow itself for example. It is Russia's biggest, most developed and most cosmopolitan city.
But if you can't read the Cyrillic alphabet getting around is almost impossible.
Only in the last year has the immigration department finally relented and starting printing immigration cards in English.
Before that foreign tourists arriving at Moscow's ghastly Sheremetyevo airport could be seen scratching their heads and muttering things like: "What the hell does this mean?" .....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7144560.stm
But if you can't read the Cyrillic alphabet getting around is almost impossible.
Only in the last year has the immigration department finally relented and starting printing immigration cards in English.
Before that foreign tourists arriving at Moscow's ghastly Sheremetyevo airport could be seen scratching their heads and muttering things like: "What the hell does this mean?" .....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7144560.stm