From: phvas@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Vlad Soukhanovsky)
Subject: EXIT VISAS WERE NOT ABOLISHED (-- PART III---)
Summary: ... zhit' v der'me? zdes' nasha rodina, synok...
Keywords: VIZA, GUVSRAN, KUM  
Organization: Koala Zoo
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 01:14:49 GMT


The text below is reproduced without permission from
Sovokinform (c) Sergei Burkov 1993  
and doesn't express my opinions.

------------------------- HERE WE GO ! -- PART III --------------

Esche svidetelskie pokazaniya o passportah:
"I called the consulate regarding the passports, and they told me the following:
for now, until April the 1st, we can use "new" red passports and then, if
necessary they will replace them with "all-new" russian passports here (in US).
I haven't forgotten yet that we cannot rely on common sense dealing with our
motherland, but in this case they assured me that things will work. The person
said:"Imagine somebody who is going to business trip for 1 week, of course 
it's impossible for him to get his passport there, so he'll get it here."
What is it, Perestroika? By the way, here is the criterion for distinguishing
whether or not you have "new" red passport which is good until April: if it
does NOT have LETTERS in its serial # and does have WHITE STRIPES above the
photo, it's valid."

BTW, ya uhitrilsya pomenyat' svoi sinii pasport ne krasnii, pri etom mne
dazhe postavili mnogokratnuyu viesdnuyu visu, no tol'ko do 1 aprelya.
Govoryat est' takoi ukas na bol'shii srok nikomu ne stavit'.

Ya toje nikakikh Rossiskikh pasportov ne videl i bolee togo,
GUVSRAN ikh poka ne vydaet. Vyesdnaya visa eto sleng na samom
dele ona vsegda nasyvalos "rasresheniem na vyesd", kotoroe
ranshe daval Avramenko is Konsulskogo otdela GUVSRANa, a teper
u nego pecht otnyali i vse nakhoditsya pod MIDom. Ne putai
eto s "resheniem o vyesde" - eto bumajonka kotoruyu vydayut
molchalivye rebyata iz GUVSRANa, sidyaschie v komnatakh bes
tablichek.
(An added comment: GUVSRAN (former GUVS) stands for Glavnoe Upravlenie
Vneshnikh Snoshenii Rossiiskoi Akademii Nauk 
Vlad, OZ-land)    

Bilety v kassah Moskvy budut prodavat' tol'ko pri nalichie vyezdnoj vizy
po kraj nej mere do 1-go marta (rasporygenie po vsem kasam).

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-The domestic price of Russian oil is around 5,000 rubles
a ton, which is about 9% of the world price at current rates of exchange.
Draft presidential decrees envisaged raising the price of coal by 80100% 
and of gas by 150270%.
-RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT REVERSES PRICE CONTROLS DECREE

-iz Msk: "U NAS DIKO RASTUT CENY NA PRODUKTY: DLYA MYASA NORMALLNAYA 
CENA 2 $, DLYA KOLBASY - 6-8 $ "

-Ob'yavlenie v Mosk Komsomolce: "Intim. Bez-voz-mezdno, t.e. darom"
-Ob'yavleniya - hohmy v Koms pravde: 
	"300 bayanistov bez vrednyh privychek ozvuchat vashe novogodnee
zastol'e"
	"Budu tret'im. Srochno."
-Aviabilety podorozhali s 1 Jan v 5-8 raz. Primery: Kiev-Msk 6000, Kiev-
Vladivostok 43 000, Kemerovo-Msk 17 000. nabiraetsya po 20 chel i rejsy
otmenyayut - ne hotyat gonyat porozhnyak. Poezd podorozhal vsego v 2 raza -
v kassah lomka. Zh/d bilety teper soderzhat familiyu, dlya borby s perekup-
schikami. Ne ochen-to pomogaet, zato muhlevat nachali kassiry.
-Yalta. Dom tvorchestva pisatelej. Kormyat tolko kashami, postnymi schami,
pirogami s kvashenoj kapustoj. Stoimost putevki ne pokryvaet myasa ili moloka.
Sejchas tam "truditsya" tolko 3 pisatelya, + nekotoroe kol-vo kommercheskih
ne pisatelskih klientov (sportsmeny, shahtery); 80% komnat pustuyut.

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