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- <title xmlns:ng="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng">В магази́не</title><meta xmlns:ng="http://docbook.org/docbook-ng" name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.79.2"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The RUSSIAN Fast Course"><link rel="up" href="ch07.html" title="Chapter 7. Lesson 7"><link rel="prev" href="ch07.html" title="Chapter 7. Lesson 7"><link rel="next" href="ch07s03.html" title="Setting the scene"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center"><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">В магази́не</em></span></th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="ch07.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 7. Lesson 7</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="ch07s03.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="d5e12380"></a><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">В магази́не</em></span></h2></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" type="1"><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 lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">чек</em></span></strong></span> and ask you to pay at the <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em 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 lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em 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 lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">рубль</em></span></strong></span> which
- is divided into 100 <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">копе́йка</em></span></strong></span>. Because of inflation however, <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em 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 lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em 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 lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">то́чка</em></span></strong></span>
- period to indicate the decimal point rather than а <span class="bold"><strong><span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">запята́я</em></span></strong></span> comma.</p><p>For example:</p><p>12.000 <span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase">руб.</em></span>= 12,000 rubles</p><p>7,5<span lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"><em lang="ru" class="foreignphrase"> руб.</em></span> = 7.50 rubles (7 rubles and 50
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