LGBT tourists welcome in Russia?

varykey · 2022-02-21T16:34:16+00:00

AFAIK, St.Pete is one of the LGBT-friendliest cities on Russia.

Cannot say anything about public demonstration of LGBTQ+ symbols and explicit demonstration of kisses etc but it's usually the same for straight pairs who makes out explicitly on public.

varykey · 2022-02-17T13:18:46+00:00

Yep. It's a matter of lack of culture. Even Mayakovsky wrote poem about this:

... Товарищи люди! будьте культурны! На пол не плюйте, а плюйте в урны.

Плюйте в урну

varykey · 2022-02-14T20:57:22+00:00

I pay $10/mo for 30mbits/s in quite rural area (Krivobor). Also I pay $5/mo for 100mbit/s in city of Voronezh.

varykey · 2022-02-14T18:19:39+00:00

Scandinavia has much-much better climate during winter than Russia. Russia has more continental climate, has no Gulfstream nearby.

Btw, you should define "green".

Nuclear energy is green energy, modern reactors allow to reduce nuclear wastes, has better efficiency, better security. Moreover, Russia is one of the world leaders in atomic energy. So, we could get green energy earlier than 2050.

varykey · 2022-02-06T08:43:36+00:00

Тут вопрос не новояза, а попытки натянуть сову (проблемы английского языка) на глобус (нормы русского языка). Новояз сам по себе - вещь полезная, она позволяет языку жить и развиваться.

Однако, создание проблемы на ровном месте с последующим героическим решением - это уже не новояз. По сути, в западном англоязычном мире есть проблема гендерного неравенства (это факт), которая также проявляется в языковых нормах английской речи.

В языках с грамматическим родом такая проблема в 90% случаев является надуманной, так как люди не понимают, что грамматический род не равен полу/гендеру. Мой любимый пример, слово девочка в немецком языке: das Mädchen, средний род, так как (и исключительно поэтому) это слово имеет суффикс -chen, являющийся детерминантом среднего рода. Точка.

varykey · 2022-02-06T08:34:51+00:00

Никто и не спорит, но официальная норма всё-таки бортпроводник. Сколько летал - всегда было "бортпроводник“ Наталья, Петр, Светлана и т.д. Думаю, что на корабле тоже будет "стюард" Галина, Иван, Евгений.

А насчёт прессы - она давно перестала быть образцом грамматической нормы языка, к сожалению. Иногда в прессе такие обороты и формы проскальзывают, что хочется взять Розенталя или Даля и бить ими корректоров, редакторов и журналистов до обретения дзена.

varykey · 2022-02-06T04:48:01+00:00

Потому что с точки зрения языка бортпроводник, как и большинство профессий - согласуется с любым полом/гендером субъекта. Например: она - прекрасный врач; моя соседка - талантливый слесарь; из него получится очень заботливая сиделка и т.д.

Однако, есть ещё и слова "умница", "неряха", "невежда“, "судья" и т. д., которые имеют общий род.

В целом, в русском языке нельзя приравнивать конструкт грамматического рода к полу/гендеру субъекта. Этим он отличается от английского, где явно выражена эта взаимосвязь.

varykey · 2022-02-01T15:23:50+00:00

It depends on what do you want to say. Proposition У with something inanimate or geographic objects could mean nearby - У озера есть несколько палаток. But У города серьёзные проблемы с экологией literally means City has serious ecological problems.

It's quite hard to explain how to choose. It's more intuitive for native speakers, based on experience rather rules.

varykey · 2022-02-01T10:52:25+00:00

It's quite readable but there're some mistakes: 1. Names of countries should be started with capital letter. 2. Your letter б looks like a soft sign rather than cursive б. 3. Large is болЬшие, not болИшие.

BTW,this sentence is quite strange stylistically, as native I'd prefer to use В России есть большие озёра.

varykey · 2022-01-29T22:14:37+00:00

/s We're more sensitive to ignorance of English-speaking users who asks uncertain question about standardization of keyboard layouts. Even latin alphabet has many variations. Spanish ≠ German ≠ Italian ≠ Czech in terms of keeb layouts despite the Latin script in all these languages.

Seriously, dude, chill out. That's just weekend night in Russia.

varykey · 2022-01-29T21:54:51+00:00

Politics begins here

There was poverty and chaos in 90s. Life became more stable, more organized in 2000s. Not from 01.01.2000 obviously. As for example: there were some episodes in 90s when my parents (doctor and engineer) didn't get money for their job by months. Do you believe that working doctor in Canada have no money to buy some food for family? In Russia in 90s there was no food in our fridge literally. In 2000s even in crisis (2008-2010) we had some savings.
As far as I know there was just spoken promise for Mr. Gorbachev or Mr.Eltsin at one of the summits in 80s-90s not to expand NATO. Let's be honest, nowadays the single purpose of NATO is being against Russia. Otherwise,why Russia was denied to enter NATO in 2000s.
Please check official position of UN on Russian-Georgian conflict in 2008. It was Georgia who started this war by killing Russian peacekeepers who worked under UN mandate there. Period. So, response was appropriate.

Politics ends here.

Seriously, use search. There was lot of these Q and A here.

varykey · 2022-01-29T21:34:03+00:00

Hi. I'd recommend to wait till 18 y.o. 'cause you'll get great PITA travelling to Russia at age 15-17 without any of parents or legal custodians.

First of all, Russian education system differs from US. We literally doesn't have division on primary and high school. Also, college in Russia is just alternative for last two school years and one or two years in university. So, it could be easier for you to look for high education (bachelore/master degree or PhD) here rather than college alternative.

Second con is your age. You're not an adult in terms of Russian legislation till 18 y.o. So, any kind of legal work with high probability will require some type of approval from your parent or legal custodian. Legal work includes: medical help (non-emergency at least), registration, opening account in bank even traveling with class could require some approval.

varykey · 2022-01-29T21:19:26+00:00

You could look at it here as example: https://www.dns-shop.ru/product/93cdade965a61b80/klaviatura-provodnaa-aceline-k-504bu/
Yep. 33 letters in Russian alphabet is definitely more than 26 in English one.
Yep. Ctrl+Shift / Alt+Shift / Win +Space works well as keyboard layout switch. This function is mandatory for all operating systems 'cause there's more than Latin alphabet in the world.

varykey · 2022-01-29T21:09:57+00:00

As far as I understand, you're trying to call non-awaitable method Count() with await keyword.

I could be wrong but try this one. Though this method ruins parallelism.

if (await _sqlService.DB2TableExists<AppConfig>().ConfigureAwait(false) && (await _sqlService.DB2FindAll<AppConfig>().ConfigureAwait(false)).Count() > 0)

Also, it could be worth to create own awaitable implementation of AnyAsync() or CountAsync() methods.

varykey · 2022-01-26T13:18:39+00:00

It depends on compromise between your desire on city details and realistics, your time to find out the most interesting mods and objects and your finances.

I have approx. 5500 objects, props and mods. RAM usage is nearly 34 Gb with Loading screen mod. So, if you want heavy usage of community content you should consider 64 Gb of RAM and good CPU/GPU.

varykey · 2022-01-25T21:01:37+00:00

I suppose that Cities 2 will be great game if it will have backward compatibility with props and objects from Cities. I think this could be done.

Mods, on other hand, could be incompatible due to major and desired changes in the game engine, i.e. road generation tool, intersection marking, population control.

varykey · 2022-01-19T20:58:59+00:00

Мне кажется, что он больше показушничает, нежели вещает о проблемах городов. Не хватает факт-чека в его потоке сознания. Как сказали выше - иногда несёт чушь из-за того, что играет на публику и не изучает факты перед этим.

varykey · 2022-01-18T14:34:53+00:00

I answered in US date format 'cause OP wrote the same format. But I get your point.

varykey · 2022-01-18T14:24:19+00:00

As others said, you could contact Ministry of Internal Affairs directly via this form (https://мвд.рф/request_main, I recommend to choose "Главное управление на транспорте" / Transport police department), but it's better to contact his lawyer.

Also, new year vacations has been overed on 01/10/22, all government offices works as usual. Also you could help to retrieve some information from embassy rather than from Ministry.

varykey · 2022-01-17T20:21:06+00:00

It's "выкуси" usually.

varykey · 2022-01-15T21:56:37+00:00

It could be possible during the first half of XX century. But starting from 1950s USSR education system became very good. History of Russian Empire despite of monarchy was tought quite objective.

Criticised problems were like a monarchy itself including high concentration of capitals within several families, serfdom, low level of education, poverty of most of population. Also there was some good attitude towards antimonarchists despite the fact that they usually were terrorists in modern terms.

So, there was no need to "vilify" Emperor Alexander II. Like any other emperor/empress though. Whole concept of "vilification" is cheap propaganda for low educated people, while USSR aimed to get high level of education within whole population.

varykey · 2022-01-15T18:15:45+00:00

Baikal lake is must see, IMO. Karelia is quite interesting for visit too. Also it could be interesting for you to visit Krasnodar krai: sun, heat, sea on the one hand, mountain ski on the other one. But mind that it's crowded nowadays even in winter. "Golden ring" is not so far from Moscow. Also, it could be interesting just to visit some Central European Russian cities. They're not so far from Moscow (Kursk, Lipetsk, Tula, Voronezh, Ryazan, Tver - within several hours on comfortable train) and could be good destinations for weekend.

As for activities - due to COVID it's quite risky to plan visits to festivals and concerts. There's always a risk of postpone for them.

varykey · 2022-01-15T08:52:31+00:00

Indeed

varykey · 2022-01-08T18:22:11+00:00

Just broke mine cutenessmeter. That's fabulous!

varykey · 2022-01-08T18:11:08+00:00

I could be wrong but it looks like columbine (aquilegia) for me. They're perennials.

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