Basic Russian Phrases for Airport Customs

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"Nikolai Pankratz with American Resource Network for Expert Village. Then the next step once you get through the passport control, you'll get to the customs. Customs in Russian is damogiana, damogiana. They will ask you for your declaration. That's declaratsa, declaration, declaratsa. After that, if nobody, if your people that were supposed to pick you up never show up, well, anything can happen. The car broke down, whatever, then you're facing a mob of Russian taxi drivers that are just eager to take the American dollars. Well, because most people at the airport that you met are very far from the city and that's obviously money for a lot of people. So taxi is taxi. Driver, vadidu. Vadidu. You might say, are you the driver of this taxi? Vu vadidu et ta va taxi. Vadidu et ta va taxi. I don't understand. You might say something in Russian, you say I don't understand. Nier banni mi. Nier banni mi. Or you can say Nier banni mio padowski. Don't understand Russian. Where is the restroom? Du toilette? Hotel. Gastine. Money. Janke. Thank you. Spiceba. Thank you. Spiceba. Your welcome. Bashalc. Bashalc. If you know these words you get through the airport."