Travel / Can I enter first to Poland having a Czech visa? [13]


There WAS such thing as C+D visas (Schengen short stay + national long stay). AFAIK it was issued before Apr 5, so there is a lot of such visas still valid.


For me, it looks like that holders of modern equivalent of former D type visa now granted same rights as holders of former C+D.

Travel / Can I enter first to Poland having a Czech visa? [13]


Some useful reading...

ec.europa.eu/justice_home/fsj/freetravel/visa/docs/c_2010_1620_en.pdf

There _is_ such thing as national long stay visa.

From the document above:

Example: a Ukrainian national is staying in Spain on the basis of national long stay visa. He
wishes to return to Ukraine by car via France, Germany and Poland.
The Ukrainian national should apply for a visa at a French consulate in Spain (cf. point
2.3.2).23

News / Russia, Poland ready agreement on visa-free travel [71]

Hm... One more prophet... ;)

Well, see what happened in a republics that managed to break out from USSR in the past. I cannot say that everything is just perfect there.

The one of brightest examples is Georgia. Their nationalistic government break all ties with Russia... Just to find that there is not so much markets where their traditional products (overpriced friuts, parody to tea, second-grade vines, etc) is welcome. They was one of most prosperous republics in USSR, now they have little more than 1/4 of russian GDP (per capita).

News / Russia, Poland ready agreement on visa-free travel [71]

By the way, there was two Kaliningrads in Russia. One was near Moscow, and most people was pleased when it was renamed to Korolev (in a memory of legendary space program leader and general constructor).

So name swap story looks funny now. Koenigsberg/Królewiec now Kaliningrad, and Kaliningrad (former Podlipki) now Korolev. ;)

News / Russia, Poland ready agreement on visa-free travel [71]

If someone will come to invest substantial amount to new enterprise - I think he/she will not have problems with hiring russian-speaking Pole as a executive director. ;) Otherwise, obviously, he/she must be fluent in Polish and live in Poland enough to know local people and be able to avoid stupid misunderstandings that may cause serious problems with personnel from nothing.

I seen a lot of really stupid things that was done by "just from US" managers in Russia in a similar situation. ;)

News / Russia, Poland ready agreement on visa-free travel [71]


Is it great problem? ;)

History / Why Poles love Russia [105]


Not the same, but very similar. Smaller nation in such situation is usually much more aggressive in attempts to keep the differences intact and show to everyone that they are different, very different. ;) Look at Ukraine for example, they even replaced russian-like word "vertolit" with a english "helicopter" in their own language... ;)

News / Russia, Poland ready agreement on visa-free travel [71]


Some older trucks, motorcycles, older emergency generators or water pumps. Some small agricultural machinery. Not so much demand for this fuel as I can see on a local gas stations, but many have at least one distribution column with A-80.

Some of emergency machinery is intentionally made to operate on almost anything with octane nubmer starting from approx 65, by the way.

News / Russia, Poland ready agreement on visa-free travel [71]


Here WAS some problems with this, of course, especially in southern regions, but crooks usually gets what they deserve quite fast. Main thing was adding some octane number increasing additives to fuel with octane number 80 and selling it as 92 (as you can imagine it is nearly impossible to do at a gas station, so usually this was the "business" of small wholesale dealers, they then sold the mix to independent gas stations, with a counterfeit certificates or certificates issued for another lot of fuel). As I can remember there was no such problems with a "branded" gas stations like Lukoil, Sibneft.

Another thing (also at the south) was "chechen petrol" that was made in Chechnya from oil stolen from pipelines using some "homemade" distilling equipment - usually was sold as 80 but real octane number may be anywhere from 60 to 90, unpredictable. Now this is non-existent anymore, as current chechen administration declared total war to such "businesses", often linked to and used to fund operations of local islam terrorists.

News / Russia, Poland ready agreement on visa-free travel [71]

Already over 120000 on odometer of my Ford Taurus, purchased one imported from UAE with 40000 there. Since then - no any problems with engine, no any fuel additives ever used. Location - 20 km northwest from Moscow. ;)

News / Russia, Poland ready agreement on visa-free travel [71]


I suspect that gas stations along the Russian side of the border will be flooded with Poles from neighbour towns instead. ;)

Life / Languages understandable by Poles? [38]


Uroda is sounds very similar to a russian word that mean ugly creature, or mutant of some sort. ;) blad sounds very similar to whore, though russians still use this word to express their feelings if something goes wrong (in ancient times meaning was the same as in modern Polish, of course). ;)

Life / Languages understandable by Poles? [38]

Hm, be careful with words uroda and błąd when talking to Russian girl as well. ;)

Life / Languages understandable by Poles? [38]

Some practice (to abstract of how it is writen and concentrate on how it sounds) and over 60% of Polish speech become understandable to Russian. If the one know Ukrainian or Belarussian somewhat - even more, there is still some roots in use that was out of use in Russian long time ago. From my own experience - if Pole and Russian speak not so fast, choose simple words, and always ready to rephrase with synonims - it is pretty easy to understand each other. But again, there is some words that sounds similar but may have opposite meaning.

Lithuanian - quite difficult to understand for Russian, I would say <5% of words.

Ukrainian (especially subset that is in use on East and so much hated by Bandera fans) - no real problems for Russian, some people think that it is just malorossian dialect, with a lot of archaisms still in use. ;)

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]

Try to get permission for "naturals parade" somewhere. Most likely, this request will be declined "due to provocation and homophobic nature, to protect rights of minorities". As to gay parade - usually no problem (not in Moscow, though).

News / Minsk threatens to take gas destined for Poland and EU [16]

All those buzz is not about gas itself, it is more about oil export customs duties (or what it is named in English). In the past, Belarus got all their oil duty-free, and then reexported a lion share of it after processing, making a huge profits (I heard about $2 bn/yr or so). Starting from Jan 1, Russia offered to supply 6.3 million tons of oil per year to Belarus duty free (it is approximately equal to complete internal consumption of Belarus) and everything extra - with regular Russian duties, as for export. Lukashenko goes crazy about this, just processing of oil does not make superprofits by itself... Not so easy to lose such amount of free money...

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]


But I have more than enough fingers on one of my hands to count my descendants that I will protect by any means from influence of totalitarian religious sects and gays. The remaining 6 billions have much less interest to me.

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Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]


Hm. If wide-minded YOU do not care about survival of your genes in future generations, others will be very glad to occupy freed space. ;) The ones who poke right hole have more chances to do so. ;) Your sisters will be a nice addition to collection of some arab guy.

And, of course, i'm already immune to words "rigid", "limited" and so on.

Feel free to do anything you like, poke any hole of any creature you like. But if this will have any relation to my descendants - beware.

Life / 3 reasons why you hate Poland. [1049]


Hm. I still asking myself, WHY people should LOVE someone just because he poking a wrong hole? ;)

By the way, gays that actively promote their "life style" around and trying to recruit as many as possible still bisexual dumbasses to join them is a real threat for everyone - they lessen everyone's chances to ever see their grandsons. So, some reasonable level of homofobia is a healthy thing from evolutionary point of view, IMHO.

Law / "FART" shop in Poland - WHAT DOES THIS SHOP SELL? [55]



Imagine the field "Place of birth" in Russian passport with such a toponym... ;)

News / Unbelievable but, its truth. Poland is finally happy to share border with Russia [57]

Hm... Not original, of course...

Pushkin written many, many years ago...

Не верю чести игрока,
Любви к России поляка,
Не верю я французской дружбе
И бескорыстью немцев в службе.

Will not even try to translate. ;)

News / US to deploy Patriot missiles to Poland [404]


Pretty, smart and loving woman is much more precious thing than a litle bit drunk guy with Kalashnikov. ;) So, this sort of weapon will be reserved for very special opponents. ;)


Hm... I think you still not realizing how powerful that weapon is... ;)

News / US to deploy Patriot missiles to Poland [404]


Yeah... It is not known who really pay, it is pretty easy to print few truckloads of fresh&crunchy $100 bills and send them abroad... ;) To never see it again. ;)


Did you heard russian jokes about Russian Independency Day? ;) Something like "in this day Russia finally became independant from Turkmenbashi"... ;) I don't think we will take them back so easy. ;)

Western Euarabia... Do we need it, really?

Off-Topic / Slavic languages - oldest European languages. [12]

Something in my memory tell me that modern Lithuanian is a live language that is closest to sanskrit... Maybe I'm wrong?

News / Jarosław Kaczyński sharing his words with Russians! [57]

I do not judge overall pilots skills by landings, of course, but it is only thing that I can feel - glideslope is not drawn in the air and I do not see speed indications on a display in front of me during landing. ;) But there is another reason why I don't like harsh landings - there was special course in my university about non-destructive structural defects diagnostics, materials fatigue, etc, etc. And I believe that if some extreme loads can be avoided safely - they should be avoided. (BTW: more than half of gamma-ray and ultrasonic images with various types of hidden cracks and other internal defects that professor displayed to students was related to space vehicles and aircrafts - probably because there is a lot of such checks done on that stuff).

Maybe really asian pilots trained to treat any runway as short field, cannot say anything about this. But I just feel the difference..

News / 1945-2010 Poles will march on Red square [66]


Sure?


LJ, article comments on news resources like gazeta.ru, russian-speaking forums with not so tight moderation (and even in offtopic lounges on quite good moderated tech forums like ixbt.com there is a lot of such persons or bots - they stick to gas and ukraine related threads mostly but periodically throw some sh*t everywhere).

Just seen how fun for such guys was the news about explosion in a coal mine...

News / Jarosław Kaczyński sharing his words with Russians! [57]


I already posted some stats - yes, there is a bit larger ratio of crashes to a number of planes manufactured if compared with, say, B-737, but if you thoroughly look - there is just a few accidents where aircraft failure was blamed - mostly stupid human errors. And quite a lot of them - small airlines in Asia.

BTW, I recently flown from Moscow to Beijing, then to Hong Kong, then to Taipei and back - and wish to note that two landings on which I doesn't noted touchdown at all was Aeroflot flights - chinese pilots from Cathay Pacific/Dragonair dropped plane to runway much more agressive way. Also remembered my previous experience with Air Asia and Singapore airlines - also quite harsh landings, compared to Finnair, Aeroflot or Lufthansa flights. Yes, it is just my own observations, but someone else may share their own experience.

News / 1945-2010 Poles will march on Red square [66]


Things not so bad there, of course. If you'll analyze who is writing sad comments about Poland, you'll find that many of them do almost the same about Russia in another threads. There is some (in)famous people that must throw some **** to the fan in any thread. Ukrainian nazis is most active...

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [682]


1. It seems too uniformly distributed for a few flames that may be somewhere around.
2. Most flammable thing should be remaining fuel, but when I seen burning kerosene, it either burned with no smoke at all, either give blask smoke. Most plastics also give carbon-rich blask smoke when burning. On a video we see something white...

Your comments on this?

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [682]

Been in similar situation many times, when lived few km NW from Sheremetyevo airport and had to drive there from Moscow at evenings. Clear air, and, suddenly, visibility drops to 300-500m.

Once had so dense fog in a darkness, so I (was a passenger that time) was forced to lower window glass and watch for edge of road while driver watched for a taillights of a car that was in front of us (we all drive about 3-5 km/h). Due to headlights light diffused in a fog, driver was unable to see road in front of them, it looked like a milk with two faint red lights in them.