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Azerbaijan - Includes an exact specification of the Azeri flag, and introductory information about Azerbaijan and its history, culture and politics. In English and Russian.
Denmark - Embassy of Denmark, located in Moscow and accredited to Russia, Belarus, the Kazakh Republic, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Presents information about Denmark, the promotion of exports, consular and visa support, and cultural and educational affairs.
New Zealand - With information about New Zealand, its politics and geography, and a noticeboard with advice to travellers in Russia.
South Africa - With news from and contact details of the South African Embassy to the Russian Federation, and basic facts about South Africa.
United States - United States Embassy in Moscow, with information on U.S.-Russian co-operation, including the Defense Threat Reduction Office.
Netherlands - Royal Netherlands Embassy in Moscow, with links, consular and political affairs, alumni associations, and contact information.
India - Embassy of India in Moscow, including a detailed explanation of the workings of the constitution and polity of India. In English and Russian.
United Kingdom - Details of the British Embassy in Moscow and consulates in Russia with information about services provided, activities and trade and tourist information about Britain. In English and Russian.
Australia - Located in Moscow and accredited to Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. With contact information for the Australian Honorary Consulates in St Petersburg, Vladivostok and Kyiv.In English and Russian.
Kazakhstan - Embassy of Kazakhstan in Moscow, with basic information about the country and its national symbols, and more in Russian.
Sweden - Includes information about the Embassy of Sweden in Moscow, consular affairs, calendar of events, list of related links, contact information for consulates of Sweden in the CIS. In English, Russian and Swedish.
European Commission - Delegation of the European Commission to Russia, Moscow/St. Petersburg, with information about the organization and the cooperation between the EU and Russia with details about programs. Also introductions on the EU and the euro. In English and Russian.
Canada - Located in Moscow the embassy is accredited to Russia, Armenia and Uzbekistan, and also provides visa services to residents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. With information on trade, visas, and other consular services.
Pakistan - Embassy of Pakistan in Moscow, featuring a detailed commment on Pakistan's climate and geography.
Singapore - Embassy of the Republic of Singapore to the Russian Federation in Moscow, and also accredited to the Republic of Ukraine.
South Korea - Has contact information in English for the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Moscow, and more content in Russian and Korean.
Estonia - Estonian Embassy in Moscow, with a history of the art nouveau embassy building. In English, Estonian, and Russian.
Iceland - Embassy of Iceland in Moscow, accredited to Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Georgia, Kazakstan, Kirghizia, Moldova, Tadzhikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
Finland - Embassy of Finland in Moscow, featuring information on Finnish history, media, economy, and visas.
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words Never be unfaithful to a lover, except with your wife. -- P. J. O'Rourke There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. - Henry Kissinger There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. -- Oscar Wilde Foreign The Republicans have a new healthcare proposal: Just say NO to illness! -- Mark Russell Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers. -- Rainer Maria Rilke "The rules for parents are but three... Love, Limit, and Let them be." (Elaine M. Ward) Foreign The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed by IRS employees, whose idea of a dynamite tax tip is that you should print neatly. If you ask th If it weren't for marriage, men would spend their lives thinking they had no faults at all. -- Anonymous Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson "Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world." (Oscar Wilde) Man is a natural polygamist. He always has one woman leading him by the nose and another hanging on to his coattails. -- H. L. Mencken Foreign Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands, but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Foreign "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) A poem is never finished, only abandoned. -- Paul Valery "Dreams are the touchstones of our personality." (Henry David Thoreau) For best results: wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not so good results: drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack. -- Laundry instructions on a shirt Love may be a dream but marriage is a nightmare. -- Joan Collins Foreign You have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash Foreign Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) "When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory." (Friedrich Wilhelm Ni "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Foreign Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. -- Thomas Dewar Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. -- Aristotle Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda Foreign That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. -- W. Somerset Maugham "Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself." (Gerald Brenan) The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who love me. -- George Bernard Shaw People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000. -- Pete Incaviglia, baseball player, 1990 Foreign Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. - Henry Ford There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Foreign Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts. Love is the essential reality and A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. -- Marvin Kitman "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way. -- Anonymous Foreign God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple, learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -- John Steinbeck Foreign My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me! -- Henry Ford Why yes -- a bulletproof vest. -- James Rodges, murderer, on his final request before the firing squad Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. "The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding." (Albert Camus) The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. -- George Bernard Shaw Foreign Whenever you eliminate the inedible, whatever remains, however unpalatable, must be food. -- Anonymous In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar--a practice which is still continued. -- Helen Rowland Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous Foreign "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Soul meets soul on lovers lips. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley "In married life three is company and two is none." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Foreign Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat. -- Rebecca West, Foreign Cricket is best described as organised loafing. -- Anonymous British Radio Broadcaster, 1996 There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Foreign Honeymoon: A short period of doting between dating and debting. -- Ray Bandy When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Foreign "Give me liberty or give me death." (Patrick Henry) Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. -- Susan Ertz "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) ARDOR, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein Foreign Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love. -- French saying "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "How can we know the dancer from the dance?" (William Butler Yeats) Foreign I criticize by creation - not by finding fault. - Cicero With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly good I thee endow. -- Wedding Vow, Book of Common Prayer "Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise." (Anonymous) There are only two things a child will share willingly communicable diseases and his mother's age. -- Modern Maturity Genius is 99 percent perspiration and 1 percent inspiration. -- Thomas Edison Foreign The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time. - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much. -- Zora Neale Hurston Foreign
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