Filip De Haes
Photographs
from a visit to Russia
Here you go for some of our impressions of Moscow: chaotic traffic; cops everywhere; public transport that actually works - if there ain't no metro tram bus or minibus, you can always stop a car; beautiful women - kurnikova is nothing, really; friendly people - even to foreigners, but hardly anyone speaks english, that's why 99% of the time we had a Russian accompaniment; cheap prices; shortage is truely over; a few huge international companies determine the city's view with their advertisments - ikea, pepsi, cola and lg on top; jobs exist for the most stupid work - e.g. there are actually people employed to sell cards on buses, a use that was vanished 50 years ago in western europe; people drink alcohol, everywhere, at any time - mainly beer ; a lot of old small cars - lada, volga, .. ; no one in Russia cares about nature - a green party will not be popular soon; a lot of military, and dozens of different military and police suits; and to end this paragraph with: moscow is huge, this ain't no town, it's different...
Inside a mini-bus, a faster and slightly more expensive way to travel short distances.
'Watch out, a car could drive in the back of our car'.
Moscow Metro.
View on the oldest and biggest supermarket in
Moscow.
Red Square.
Wall of peace.
Gorky Park, notice the grey sky - there were
forest fires during our stay there.
Phone cell, Gorky Park.
Probably the only ugly building in St-Petersburg.