Russian Immigration

[theonlyone]

I would love to go to Russia and maybe in march Or may I might go.

St. Pertersburg, (Stalingrad). The factory district would be the ultimate for me.

And of course the hookers in the lobbies of certain hotels in Moscow  

 I spent one night in St. Petersburg sleeping on grass, bench in the park etc. No friends, no relatives, just me and the city! That was summer 1998! lol
 You will love it.

[Dos Equis]

Interesting and disturbing crime statistics:

Crime in Russia is present in various forms. Organized crime include drug trafficking, money laundering, human trafficking, extortion, murder for hire, fraud etc. Many criminal operations engage in corruption, black marketeering, terrorism, abduction etc. Other forms of crime perpetrated by criminal groups are arms trafficking, export of contraband oil and metals, and smuggling of radioactive substances.  In 1997, approximately 8,000 criminal formations operated in the country.  In 2000 it was estimated that nearly 50% of the nation's economy was linked with organized crime.   
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Russia

Human trafficking.   

Russia is a supply, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children being trafficked for various purposes.  The trafficking is multidimensional and it involves both commercial sexual exploitation and labor exploitation.  Russia is a significant source of women trafficked to over 50 nations.  Internal trafficking is a problem in the country; women are trafficked from rural areas to urban settlements for commercial sexual exploitation.  Men are trafficked internally and from Central Asia for forced labor in the construction and agricultural industries.  Debt bondage is common among the trafficking victims.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Russia

[Dos Equis]

 

"In 2003, homicide rate in Russia was among the highest in the world."  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Russia

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VBF-47YH39S-2&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=642723322b9fb624dd6e65e94ccd9ad1

[theonlyone]

 It is written in English, had it been written in Russian the statistics would have looked positive!

 Beach Bum why? Your countryman and the other mod on here will get shit scared and cancel his trip to Russia in May he had already booked Type something positive to get not Ozmo afraid to lift his fat American ass to Russia!

[theonlyone]

 

[Soul Crusher]

Most russian immigrants i have met are deep in medical fraud and scams throughout nyc area. 

[Dos Equis]

1998: YEARS OF BAD ADVICE CULMINATE IN RUSSIA'S TOTAL ECONOMIC COLLAPSE



SEARCHING FOR FOOD: Following the complete collapse of the Russian economy in 1998, the number of people living below the official poverty line--in Russia, a measure of truly desperate conditions--rose to nearly 40%. Seniors in urban areas--with no access to jobs or land--were the hardest hit. Unlike those in rural areas, who could subsist on homegrown food, they had nowhere to turn. As in Soviet times, Russians were waiting in lines, hunting for scarce goods, and hoarding what they could find. The devastation of Russian life was by all measurements worse than America's Crash of 1929. U.S. unemployment at the end of 1929 reached 1.5 million, representing 1.2% of the total population, but more than 11.3 million Russians were jobless at the end of 1998--7.7% of the nation's total population. In the 1929 crash, stock prices fell 17% by year-end--and 90% by the depth of the Great Depression, four years later. By contrast, the Russian stock market lost 90% of its value in 1998 alone. Millions of ordinary men and women who had deposited their money in Russian banks lost everything. Here, an elderly Russian woman takes fruit from a trash bin in Moscow, August 28, 1998.



. . . . more:  http://www.fas.org/news/russia/2000/russia/part08.htm

[Dos Equis]

CHILDREN OF RUSSIA: Two children receive free soup from the Salvation Army at a Moscow railway terminal in 1998. AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel

[Dos Equis]

Bump.