30 facts about Serbia eyes of Russians

1. In Serbia, the passion for sports without exception: all rooting for someone and / or doing something. Pensioners, students (I live near the school, a feeling that most of the lessons - Training), guys, girls, women ... all for someone sick or track sports news. If you're not doing something than it is a genuine bewilderment interlocutor.

2. We - tea, they have - coffee. Only coffee much more in all respects. Coffee drink anywhere - at home, at work, in cafes. With a cigarette, Turkish Delight, or with a stack Vinjak (local brandy). Tea in Serbia is often perceived as something from the category of traditional medicine and find a normal tea in our understanding is not easy. By the way, the same story with buckwheat.

Coffee is usually home, Turkish or Serbian - it's the name of the same brewed in Turku ground coffee (well, maybe there are some substantial differences exist). While shopping malls and cafes for tourists drove home coffee espresso and cappuccino.

3. In Serbia, smoke a lot. More precisely, mnooogo-GO-OO-Oh! Not once have seen people, unable to finish a cigarette immediately grab the second and podkurivayut her first.

Cigarettes - goods, which is covered by a state monopoly, so no matter where you bought the pack, its price will always be one - that in a stall that in the supermarket, in a nightclub or restaurant. Basically, it's all the same brand as the worldwide - Winston, Marlboro, and dozens of familiar names. There are also local - Drina, Classic, Best, something else.

4. A drink - not much. Often you can see a group of men sipping coffee in a cafe with mineral water or soda. It happens and beer (starting at noon) or brandy (which often in the evening), but usually it is "to drink", not "to drink».

That, however, does not mean that there can not be as vdarit on the liver and not know what uporotyh unconscious - this also happens, but uporotyh behave well "socially-oriented". No one will climb to find out how he is respected around and from what part of the source.

5. Well, since we are talking about the evils of ... Hot fun - Gambling. In kladionitsah (the place where you can make a bet), which at every step, you can put on a football team (it does not matter - the Serbian, the Paraguayan national team, or Easter Island Cricket), and the cockroach races in, say, Indonesia or What advantage will win the presidential candidate in the upcoming elections.

6. prices. Unlike Russia, the price of the same type of product does not differ at times depending on the place of purchase. For example, a bottle of some of Pepsi-Cola will cost Belgrade supermarket, say, 50 dinars, in a stall on the other side of town 55 dinar, the store of a village in Vojvodina 48 dinars.

7. The water from the tap in Belgrade can drink absolutely calm. True.

Even in the cafe is often served with coffee water from the tap. If you are asked in surprise, "So this is it, tap, or what?", You will also surprise the answer is "Yes, why?" Because "the water from the tap in Belgrade can drink completely calm».

8. If you want to buy in the store a bottle or two of beer, get ready for the question "Do you have a container?". The fact that in Serbia beer glass (as well as some brands of soda) bottles of 0, 5 liters are not released, and after the use of surrender, preferably in a place where you purchased the product. If you do not have an empty bottle, in some places you can not sell beer / water, and in others - to sell at a higher price tag on the shelf with respect to price, which will include the cost of glass containers.

So, going to the store for beer / water, bring your empty containers. If not, get ready for an overpayment.

9. The most popular website in Serbia - Facebook. Judging by their friends, advertising on public transport and on TV, contacts that indicate even some government organizations ... Some government agencies use their page on the official website as a face. Facebook Serbia EVERYWHERE.

10. Warning! There is a difficult moment. If you can not feel it - it means that either the author does not speak the language sufficiently, or this category of very, very far from our mentality. Will focus on the lifestyle and values ​​- complex philosophical categories, which, obeying the rules of the chosen format, I'll try to fit in a few lines.

So.

One of the core values ​​in Serbia (I will not tell you about all the Balkans), which strongly differentiates us from them, it is so. N. Merak - kicks, "rest" in Serbian.

Whoever you are, whatever doing, no matter what your goals in life - the main thing that has always been a time for Merak. This reduces and morning coffee, and the work, which must necessarily be time to rest, and the schedule and the entire schedule (if one is). The same part I explain and abundance of cafes and kafeshechek in any town in Serbia.

Even if Serbia "stranded" in the pocket of 500 dinars, and to pay as to Moscow, still these last money he can spend on beer, snacks and something else, a couple of friends to gather and relax. Because it must be Merak. Life is not to break before losing momentum, then to look back in amazement, "Ela ... and where life somehow?».

Life - to have fun. Otherwise - nonsense.

If you are unable to convey an idea, then just forget this item.

11. By the way, I think this is the Merak explains quite liberal in most public and private institutions working hours - from 8:00 to 16:00 (in fact, often up to 15-30, especially on Friday).

12. In Serbia, it is difficult to determine the true age, especially for women. Look - beautiful girl, and she has three children, the eldest 15 years already. Or look - beautiful girl, and she is 14 (turns 2 years, as it turns out). Or, look at the back - a cool girl, figure, gait ... 20 years, probably thinking. Equals, look in the face, and then 40-55.

13. In Serbia mat not swear. It is said here. And this is no exaggeration. Spahr as a 5-year-olds, girls and old grannies-God's dandelions. Why are there! Had heard uncut mat in the newscasts on state TV.

The fact that the mat is not separated from everyday language as ours. To a large extent it is a way to paint it emotionally. In this case, in its brutality Serbian mat, perhaps, give odds Russian.

14. One virtual friend once remarked that the number of geeks, freaks and shizanutyh in Serbia just hells. That's right.

15. On the road. If you see someone turned on the blinker, you have witnessed a rare phenomenon.

16. In Serbia, are very fond of all packaging. Going to the market, you can not take a package - even a small bunch of parsley you will be positioned in a separate package, and see that you have a lot of these bags can offer a package more. In supermarkets, do not be surprised to see, for example, canned, packaged, and even in cardboard boxes - each tin in his box.

17. By the way, about supermarkets: often they do not have cameras where we could leave bags of food in front of the hall. Instead, on the wall at the entrance to a row of hooks on which to hang these bags. E. All of your purchases made in other stores or in the market, you simply leave the entrance.

For safety, you can not worry about - basically, do not steal%)).

18. Women can shake, shaking hands. Moreover - this is the norm. The main thing - do not forget: first reached out to the woman, said hello, and then - to the man.

19. Serbian Serbo-Croatian or as it was called before the breakup of Yugoslavia - the language spoken in Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro, Bosnia. What would you there or rubbed.

Yes, there are small differences - the emphasis, the meaning of some words, and even geniuses Montenegrin two new letters invented a few years ago, but in general, the difference between the Serbian and Croatian is smaller than that between the Russian and Belarusian languages.

20. Even the language - be careful in expressing emotions in public. Firstly, some swear words in our language are the same, and secondly, a lot of Serbs, especially the older generation were taught Russian and something else remember.

21. And, here's the language - I almost forgot! In Serbia, the written language exists in two versions - in Cyrillic and latinichnom, each option with their specific characters. Officially a "one true" is considered Cyrillic - in the state. all institutions will be in Cyrillic, laws, decrees there it all ... But in real life latinica vse bolshe i bolshe tesnit Cyrillic. Most of the print media in Latin, more signage in Latin, not to mention about the Serbian segment of the Internet.

22. Belgrade - City-almost dvuhmillionnik, but there is still no subway. But here long bus lines and sat down, for example, on the outskirts, and provides direct access to the center.

23. A significant part of investment in the country (or direct income Serb families) make infusions from the Diaspora. Somewhere on this site I wrote that last year Serbia received more than $ 5 billion.

What we have in mind: someone's brother, someone's son or daughter working abroad - in Russia, the United States or Europe. With a minimum salary of $ 1500 (for example, Serbian builders working in Russia's Far East, get $ 1500-2500 cc. Per month depending on qualifications and working conditions) of the money sent home to Serbia. With a population of 7, 5 million. Receives an average of something like $ 666 per person per year (and this figure is probably not accidental!).

24. At the price tags in shops and supermarkets can often see the price, indicating the pair (Serbian analogue penny), t. E. 56, 47, or 88, 95, or 243, 19.

In fact, no one will require you to pay these penny (especially since they are already 8 years as out of circulation). Simply rounded up or down - depending on the mood. Here at this rather carelessly, even in large stores. A bottle of wine is worth, say, 378, 77 dinars, and you have only 372 dinars? Nothing, come here, then the rest of zanesesh. Next!

For me is still a mystery - as local accountants reduce the debit with the credit at the end of the month or quarter.

25. Funny moment - a rhetorical "how are you?", The phrase provided as part of the welcome social norms in Serbian is "where the BBC?" - "Where are you?". Certainly behind it any story, leaving the roots ...

26. The Serbs are very conservative in terms of food. Do not try to impress Serb dumplings, eggs, and even more roach - empty translation product. It is better to feed the this (and do not forget to pat) cat. Though he will be grateful.

27. In Serbia, there are specific for Serbia holiday - Glory. It is a religious holiday - the day of the saint, the patron saint of the family. Glory "inherited" through her husband. t. e. a girl, married, already marks a new glory of her husband's family. The glory taken to invite relatives, friends and acquaintances, often regardless of their religious beliefs. As a rule, must-see destination on the table is the glory of cookies and wine. Cookies has nothing to do with our biscuits in Serbia this word means roasted pig on a spit or lamb, at least - the bull.

Glory sometimes falls on the fast. Then all the meat dishes are often simply replaced by fish. A wine usual type, not "count". Rest assured, it will be in sufficient quantities. Part of fasting, certainly crossed, drink a couple of glasses of brandy. The most common in Serbia Glory falls on the day of St.. Nicholas, John the Baptist and St. Sava Serbian.

28. In the event that the family who had died, decided to write the so-called posmertnitsy - small ads with photos, name, surname, date of birth and death information in two lines about who was deceased. These ads are published in newspapers in special sections, as well as on poles, billboards, walls of buildings.

29. Serbia culturally divided into two parts - north of the Danube, which until the end of World War I was under the rule of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and to the south of the Danube, the former to the middle of the 19th century, part of the Ottoman Empire.

The influence of these two cultures is particularly noticeable in the architecture.

30. A separate issue - the church. Here you will not find groups of old women-guards, who came to the church with only one purpose - to find other parishioners hidden demons and apostates. Be prepared for temptation especially if you come to church, and then the wedding. Bridesmaids, female guests will be dressed not according to the canons. No scarves! Only mini-skirts and cleavage! And the depth of the neckline and skirt length will depend on the size of the breast and leg length parishioner.