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(Sorry for the quality)

I have just seen this picture today in the bus : this means that you can't drink beer ("пиво") in this place. You should think that is normal, but actually many people (even teenagers and women) drink beer in the streets.

For information, one can of beer costs 20 RUB (0,57 EUR) and one bottle of vodka costs between 60 and 500 RUB, but you can find some good for 100-150 RUB (2,84-4,26 EUR).

Next time, you'll have a picture of a 1-litre can of beer, I'm not kidding :-)

Everybody can be Samy Naceri

Maybe the title of the post sucks, but I don't care (just to remind, Samy Naceri is the hero of the four movies Taxi).
I wanted to present you a Russian practice : if you want a taxi, just rise your hand and in five minutes someone will stop. Then, you have to negotiate the price : 100 or 200 RUB (3 or 6 euros), it depends on where you wanna go.
Yes, that's true anyone can be a taxi driver and that's really convenient when it's 6 o'clock in the morning. Most of the time, they drive you in a Lada (with no belts):
It is the typical Russian car : not very secure and maybe very polluting, however in St. Petersburg half of the cars are Ladas.

Let's learn Russian

Who said that Russian was complicated ?

Russian Cappuccino

That is the reason why StarBucks Coffee had so many difficulties to settle down cafés in Russia. Кофе Хауз (or Café House) seems to be a huge company : it is very easy to find one in St. Petersburg (there are five of them in Nevsky Prospekt).
I went to the Кофе Хауз in Vassilievsky Island : it was quite nice. The cafés have a western style and you can order many things (even an "éclair au chocolat").

However the first StarBucks Coffee will open in Moscow in a few weeks...

Chinaman in Russia

So I've just uploaded some photos on my flickr account.
They're not very good and very interesting but whatever I don't like to be a tourist.

Just click on this link.

There will be more, stay tuned.