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Moscow to teach expats rules of the game
Published: 16 June, 2010, 23:22
Edited: 15 July, 2010, 16:58
TAGS: Scandal, Russia, Prime Time Russia
Special guidelines for foreigners will be developed by Moscow authorities to help the new residents fit in.
The new “code of conduct” will include simple rules about behavior in the city concerning such issues as food preparation, religious practices, clothing, and languages.
The code will be composed with the help of ethnic community members who already have experience in adapting.
“This is for all the visitors from the former Soviet countries and overseas,” the author of the idea, Mikhail Solomentsev from the Committee for Inter-Regional Ties and Ethnic Policy, told RT. “I think it should be in different languages. This document will contain not just the code of conduct but also useful addresses and phone numbers. It will help the guests to adapt to Moscow life and become Muscovites more quickly.”
Solomentsev added that the measure was prompted by a number of unpleasant incidents involving foreigners who come to Moscow. For example, Muslims, whose holidays involve the sacrifice of sheep, sometimes do the slaughtering in public places, which is shocking to Muscovites. There have also been incidents when people were barbecuing on their balconies in apartment blocks.
The guidelines will also insist that foreigners should learn the Russian language and avoid wearing national dresses.
The code of conduct, however, will remain only a recommendation and not become part of the city’s law.
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It is called assimilation. It is teaching people to prepare how to live here, facing a new culture. How would you like standing out like a sore thumb amongst places so every swindler accosts you knowing you are an ignorant foreigner? "that's how all starts, just as a recommendation, and the thing you know, you put in jail because you were wearing inappropriate clothes." - do you even travel outside of your homeland? Do you ACTUALLY believe Russia arrests people for wearing inappropriate clothes? I know the USA has done so! In the state of Virginia the police have begun fining individuals with their underwear being exposed above their trousers. There was a Cincinnati man who was charged as a sex offender for walking without a shirt. Those were native people in USA. However, it is a good thing to learn a nations emergency numbers as not all countries use 911. Not everyone is raised with great educations to know that fires on the balcons are potentially dangerous. You speak of Democracy, yet you don't know that Democracy is a form of tyranny (majority rule). Keep laughing as multiculturism will destroy your country as people refuse to learn English in your home country. Keep laughing as you begin to celebrate their holidays as they have no meaning to your own nation. Maybe then preserving your nation isn't such a bad thing, but it takes intelligence to understand that. Maybe trying to guide foreigners to assimilate would make their lives better considering not every place is the same as the other. Breaking the law because someone else does it isn't an excuse to break the law. You make way too many assumptions that everyone is corrupt. Appropriate clothes means don't wear a burqa as it'll draw attention to oneself. I've seen all forms of dress in Moscow, even Hari Krishna, I doubt they'll be imprisoned. Really, you need to travel before making assumptions
that´s how all starts just a recomendation, and next thing you know, you put in jail because you were waring inapropiate clothes. I don´t understand Russian policy, in one hand they are promoting the so called "modernized state", meaning "western like state" but at the same time they are copying the islamic moral conduct style policy, so to speak. To me this beyond ridiculous, you Russsian politicians have to make up your minds. You either follow a real democratic system or go back to the soviet style. There´s no such thing as "RUSSIAN DEMOCRACY" I can´t describe how hilarious it is to read about politicians creating a handbook of conduct, when in fact they don´t even follow the constitution. They just interpret the laws to their convenience. I think they (government apparatus) should start setting themselves as an example first, by not being corrupt, then you can demand others to follow the rules.
If Russia starts recommending people that they should not wear their national costumes in Russia, the rest of the world will laugh.