Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Europe or US to meet? Visa questions.	QUOTE (Rob_Lesya @ Sep 28 2009, 11:56 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> QUOTE (Rutherford @ Sep 28 2009, 11:36 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> No regulations when building tall apts , they fall down a lot . Reminds me very much of one of my trips to Moscow --- I happened to be there at the time when the roof collapsed on the huge aquapark in Moscow (I don't remember the exact date--- late 2003, early 2004). Anyway, while I was there I was reading an article in one of the magazines where they were interviewing some of the city planners talking about the growing trend of building taller and taller buildings in Moscow. And they actually said that one of the problems was that they had no building codes and no fire protection codes, etc that covered such tall buildings. And they actually quoted one of the guys saying that the only way they could develop such codes was to build a tall building and wait for something bad to happen --- then they could write the proper codes to prevent it from happening again. I'm thinking --- Uhhhhhhhh..... so you've never heard of "structural engineering"???..... or "Computer modeling"???..... or maybe even, I don't know, simply looking at other cities that have built tall buildings and "borrowing" some of their codes and regulations??? Larisa tells me they are tight on regulating restaurants , but nothing more . Food supply , medicine , anything that comes from China is bad bad bad . I met no one who did not wnat to return to the SU days , life was better then . I know it was not better for all. As far as building codes , , they did fine before the crash of the union , why not reach out to other first world countries for help . Russia is a pathetic country , they have wasted years of social evolution, I mean they are far behind the rest of the would in sooo many ways , they have done much harm to the people because isolation . To be honest , when my wife talks about the old days , I sometimes wish I was there	Rutherford	Male	Russia	2009-09-29 08:18:00
Russia, Ukraine and Belarus	Europe or US to meet? Visa questions.	Yes , as some others have expressed , go to Russia and visit her family and friends , that's what I did , as the experienced suggested to me. My wife and her Russian girl friend has said , America is very much like old SU , lots of law and order . Russia is full of corruption and has almost no order , my wife's stories explains it all , only if you could hear her. No regulations when building tall apts , they fall down a lot . The local police grabbing kids out later at night , demanding money to release them . The stories are endless . I never had a problem in my 18 days there in Chelny	Rutherford	Male	Russia	2009-09-28 23:36:00