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Price
Standards
(As of Dec, 2006)
Here are the costs of
services provided by legitimate agencies. This won't guarantee you not
to be scammed by a scam agency, but if an agency has charges
ridiculously higher, you should avoid them. Living costs are below.
Addresses
$8 or $10 each (groups for
about 25% discount)
Translating
& Email Forwarding
$3 - $5 per page
Interpreting
$5-$10 per hour
(Or you could agree on a daily/weekly rate beforehand based on this
figure.)
Calling
$2 per minute
Internet
Fees
I pay $2 per hour ($1 on
weekends) at my internet cafe.
English
Lessons
$15 per hour with a foreign
teacher (private)
$5 per hour with a Russian teacher (private)
$2 per hour in group lessons
Meeting
Anywhere from $25 to $40. I
would not pay more.
A very few agencies have a system where everything is free, and if you
actually marry a girl from FSU, you pay the agency around $300-$500. I
think this is a great system.
Apartment Rentals
NO more than $100 per day
(Should be $50)
Gifts
Roses (11) - $70
Bouquet of Flowers - $50
Fruit - $30 - $40
Chocolate - $10 - $30
Large toy - $30 - $50
Russian Champagne - $15
Perfume - $75
Bus pass - $12
Cost of
Living in Russia
Moscow, St Petersburg and
Sochi are those few special places where everything is crazy expensive
and these prices really don't apply. The following prices are basically
what you will see in ANY other city in Russia. (I am sure that some guy
sitting at home in Texas with his Russian wife will argue with this
because he has traveled here a few times, whereas I have only lived
here for 7 years. But I think I might know what I am talking about.
(I give the prices in roubles to avoid confusion. YOU can calculate
it.)
US$1 = 28 roubles
CAN$1 = 24 roubles
Euro$1 = 34 roubles
AUS$1 = 21 roubles
Litre of gasoline (1/4 gallon)
– 15 roubles
Litre of milk (pint)
– 20 roubles
Litre of juice –
40 roubles
1 dozen eggs – 25
roubles
1 kilogram of apples
- 35 roubles
a
loaf of bread - 10 roubles
1 rose –
80 roubles
500 grams high grade ground
beef – 70 roubles
1 bottle (large – 400
ml) Russian beer –
1 bottle (large – 400
ml) foreign beer –
1 litre good vodka –
120 roubles
1 pack of Marlboro’s
– 26 roubles
(most other brands are cheaper)
toothpaste (Russian)
– 20 roubles
dinner for 2 at a middle class
Russian restaurant – 500 roubles
dinner for 2 at a high class
restaurant – 2000 roubles
taxi ride – 70-150
roubles for most city points.
1 room flat per month
– 6000-10,000 roubles
1 room flat to buy –
about US$35,000
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