Hello Peter, >>15 USD per day (usual wage here)? Believe me, it's truth... And yes, Foxpro is very popular here... >If I was ready to come and they would pay my way there, I would work for the $15 per day. Could I actually live on that? I mean have a modest room and buy food. Yes, you can live on that money pretty well here... At least, you can buy a hamburger and the pizza everyday! ;) >Clearly I would have to offer more than good programming skills which I'm sure are already available there, no air fare necessary. I would suggest you to find some of recruitment agencies (russian) on the NET. The good place for start is www.ru where you may find a lot of Russia related links. >Have you heard about the St. Petersburg group that has written Together/J, a Java modeling/programming tool? Nope... >>(yeah, I know that everyone knows about the bears dancing on the streets of Moscow >>and excellent russian vodka with a caviar ;))) ? >What do I know about Russia? Very little. My comments were based on certain theoretical expectations. US and Russia are the only countries in the world that border on both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans (with certain minor exceptions such as >Panama.) We both have large mineral and timber resources though ours are more used up than yours. I could make more guesses but why don't you tell me what you see as the biggest differences... The biggest difference is in our minds... I not mean that we have different type of minds ;), but I mean that in similar situation one Russian and one Americans will do absolutely different things and will have absolutely different thoughts... Take a guess about what you'll do if highway patrol will roll you over just because you drive on Mercedec Benz 600 instead of driving on old Ford? and you'll wondering that it is usual situation here when our patrolmans (GAIshnik ;) doing it everyday... Can you imagine that you can violate traffic law and then just pay the kickback to a patrolman and he will close his eye... It's hard to explain, you must live here to understand it. 80+ years of building a communism, a socialism and other "isms" (including capitalism, of course) are not good for any country... ;( >Where do you live? Yes, I live here, in Russia, Krasnodar (it's on the South), but be sure, I will leave Russia very soon. I'm going to immigrate to Canada. I think that if you're interested in further discussion, then we should go to regular email. I think that UT is not place for politic debates....