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- <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" version="-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"><head xmlns:h="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" profile=""><title>В магази́не</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"/></head><body><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h1 class="title"><a id="d0e21764" shape="rect"/><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">В магази́не</em></span></h1></div></div></div><p>For the most part, you'll be shopping in Moscow and St. Petersburg in stores which operate
- the same way they do in the US. However, there may be times when you'll stop in at a Russian
- store which still uses an older, and at times frustrating, multi-step system of purchasing and
- payment:</p><div class="orderedlist"><ol class="orderedlist"><li class="listitem"><p>Decide what it is you wish to purchase. Ask the price.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>The salesperson will give you а <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">чек</em></span></strong></span> and ask you to pay at the <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">ка́сса</em></span></strong></span>. While you are doing
- that, he/she will be wrapping up your purchase.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>After paying, you will return to the salesperson with either a receipt showing
- payment, or your original <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">чек</em></span></strong></span> stamped, which you'll hand over in exchange for your
- purchase.</p></li></ol></div><p>Russian law now stipulates that there is one currency for the entire country and that is
- the <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">рубль</em></span></strong></span> which
- is divided into 100 <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">копе́йка</em></span></strong></span>. Because of inflation however, <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">копе́йки</em></span></strong></span> have disappeared. In
- spite of this law, you will still be able to make purchases in many stores (especially those
- which are foreign-owned) using <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">СКВ
- свобо́дно конверти́руемая валю́та</em></span></strong></span> freely convertible currency
- (dollars, marks, francs and pounds sterling). Major credit cards are readily accepted in many
- locations in Moscow and St. Petersburg, more rarely in other large cities, and almost never in
- the smaller ones.</p><p>Think big when you think of prices in Russia! When writing these large numbers, Russians
- use а <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">то́чка</em></span></strong></span>
- period to indicate the decimal point rather than а <span class="bold"><strong><span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">запята́я</em></span></strong></span> comma.</p><p>For example:</p><p>12.000 <span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">руб.</em></span>= 12,000 rubles</p><p>7,5<span xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em xml:lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"> руб.</em></span> = 7.50 rubles (7 rubles and 50
- kopecks)</p></div></body></html>
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