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Russia and Belarus (Lonely Planet Country Guide)

By: Patrick Horton Steve Kokker John Noble Louis Regis Mark Elliott Mara Vorhees Simon Richmond
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
ISBN: 1741042917
ISBN-13: 9781741042917
Released: 01 Mar 2006
RRP: £19.99
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Notice that the other reviews apply to the old edition - By: Malik Coli, 30 Aug 2007
The three reviews below refer to the old edition of this book. The new version has been entirely rewritten & re-researched. As part of the team who helped write it I should leave the reviews to other people, but I think the criticism of not including Ukraine is quite unfair given that the book never claims to do so!
Ignominious - By: Antonio, 30 May 2004
A few days ago I bought "Russia & Belarus". The guide is "technicallly" good (it has lots of useful information about these two great countries), but I'm completely dissaponted with my adquisition because:

1.- It seems that authors think that they are still living in "cold war times", & that Russia is the enemy. For example:

"The first stations are so deep because they were designed to double as bomb shelters (you'll notice the newer stations aren't as deep after it was realised you just couldn't dig down far enough to escape a hail of American nuclear bombs)". Incredible!

2.- It seems that author think that russians are "wild people", beeing american & british people the only civilized people in the world. For example:

"In Europe & America people travel in a train fully aware that it belongs either to a state or company & that their ticket grants them only temporary ocupation & certain restricted rights. In Russia people just take them over"

I think that we, thee readers of this book, are not interested in any kind of comparison between american/british culture & russian culture/facts.

There are many more examples of points 1 & 2 through the book.

More examples:

"When entering a row in a theatre, face the people you are passing in the same row. Transgressors will be grumbled at & females will probably get their bottoms pinched or slapped by oportunistic Russian guys". Of course, this wouldn't happen if the "guys" were american or british...

"When sitting on benches keep your feet on the ground. Anyone attempting sideways lounging or picturesque knee-hugging posses in risking death by babushka laser vision". Simply ignominious.

Russia and Belarus sorted - By: , 13 Jan 2004
This book is excellant it covers comprehensivly Russia & Belarus. It has great depth covering Siberia, the Russian Far East & the ural region as well as the population centers of Western Russia. There is a seperate lonely planet book covering exclusivly the Ukraine as well as it being in the Eastern Europe book.
Do go to Kiev, but not with this book - By: Tastydogs, 30 Oct 2003
Kiev is wonderful but for the Lonely Planet's latest edition the section on the Ukraine is missing- Ukraine is now in the East Europe Lonely Planet