What You WILL Find In Russia

What You WILL Find In Russia:
McDonald's
Churches
Starbucks
More churches
Hard Rock Cafe
Yet even more churches
Carl's Jr.
Cbarro
Шуарума
Hot dog stands
American Diner
Pepsi
Coca-Cola
Лимонад
Miller Beer
Budweiser
A limited selection of American (Californian) wine
Кефир (mildly fermented milk drink)
Квас (mildly fermented bread drink)
M&M's
Mars chocolate bar
Snickers
Чёрный хлеб (black bread)
Beets
Lay's Potato Chips (Flavors including: bacon, cheese, sour cream & onion and шашлык kebab)
Газированная вода / вода с газом (carbonated water)
Медовуха
Путинка Vodka
Шампанское
$8 пиво that tastes like something one eightieth that price
Балтика 0-9 & Невское Светлое Пива
Hockey fans
Футбол
Hookah bars
Smokers
Чай
Instant Coffee
The most expensive city in the world
Recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkazia
Georgian restaurants
Ford Focus
Нефть (oil)
State-owned majority stakes in companies of key industries
1 копейка coin worth $0.0004 (at an exchange rate of 25 rubles per dollar)
Dial-up internet
220V electrical outlets
A new time zone
Cheap, legal DVDs
PAL Video Format
Satellite and Cable TV
A city that never sleeps
Beautiful Питер
Eurodance radio stations
Foreign TV shows dubbed in Russian (with the source-language track still played)
Torrential summer downpours
Белые ночи (white nights)
Large mosquitoes
Отчества
Futons used as beds year-round
Матрёшки
Superstition
Worries of becoming sterile from sitting on cold concrete
Paganism
Штрафы милиции
Xenophobia of Caucasians
One sixth the land mass of the earth
Lake Baikal
Monasteries
Дурак, the card game... of course
Cell phones without contracts
Билайн рекламы
Cheap cab rides
Inexpensive public transportation
Trans-Siberian Railroad
Stray dogs that seem to know how to use the metro and crosswalks
World-class musicians playing in the depths of the metro
War memorials
Tatars, Uzbeks, Ukrainians, Georgians, Armenians, etc.
More war memorials
A mummified former leader
Yet even more war memorials
Temperatures below zero
Businessmen in Armani suits
Women in D&G (authenticity disputable)
Homeless people
Handicapped missing all but one limb
Скинхеди
Цыганы
Chinese tourists
German speakers
American embassy
Тимати
Дима Билан
Men with "mullet" or "rat-tail" style haircuts
Baths from water heated off of the stove (when the city hot water pipes or plant are under repair)
Abundant medicine available without prescription (including antibiotics)
Memories of a fallen society
Dreams of a promising future

MOSCOW - Prospective Itinerary

The list below is a prospective itinerary of places to visit during my semester abroad in Moscow. Do you have any suggestions to add to the list?

MOSCOW
Prospective Itinerary

1. Trtyakovskaya Gellereya / Tretyakov (3 Votes)
2. Tsaritsino (царицыно) Museum-reserve (2 Votes)
3. The Kremlin (2 Votes)
4. Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2 Votes)
5. Mayakovsky Museum
6. Red Square
7. St. Basil Cathedral
8. Arbat Street
9. Pushkin Museum (with Elena Vishnevskaya)
10. Borodinskaya Bitva Museum
11. Bol`woy Teatr
12. VDNH
13. Vinzavod Gallery
14. Hram Hrista Spasitelya
15. Walk down the river Moskva,
16. Gorkogo Park
17. Pushkin
18. Lev Tolsoy Flat
19. Teremok Restaurant
20. Park Pobedi
21. All the circle line metro stations
22. Statue Park
23. детский мир
24. Chistye Prudy
25. Moscow Zoo
26. Kolomenskoe Museum-reserve
27. Bulgakov museum
28. Central House of Artists (across the road from the gorky park)