It seems that Kazakhstan is no longer in trend. We supersaturated it so that it no longer smells like Russophobia, but frankly stinks. Aboriginal people are evicted from rented apartments to rent them out at a high price to visiting Russians. Prices rose from everything and everyone, and the hospitable attitude fell below the plinth. This is probably why many of our compatriots went to Uzbekistan, neighboring Kazakhstan in their cars.
Oil Painting – 60 hours at the Russian-Kazakh border, then another 10 hours at the Kazakh-Uzbek border. But no mobilization and a lot of new emotions. That’s just not always positive. The fact is that a Russian cannot just come to Uzbekistan on his “wheels”. For starters, you need to register – without it, you can’t stay in the country for more than three days. This also happens in the hotel, but the majority of Russians who have long arrived here, as expected, are looking for cheaper accommodation. Apart from that, however, you will have to pay the infamous registration fee to the owner who rents the apartment. If he wants to, of course.
Almost everyone in the real estate market in Kazakhstan is “raked out”. Hotels are full, any apartments are indecently expensive. In this regard, Uzbekistan still offers the opportunity to roam. And that is not in Tashkent. Here you won’t find a more or less decent “kopeck piece” cheaper than $500 during the day with fire. More decent homes will ask for all 800. But in Bukhara or Samarkand you can find an apartment with a few rooms for 200 “dollars”. Not in the center of course. True, unlike Tashkent, Russian is spoken here much less and rather poorly. However, no one canceled the sign language.
The residence of a car with Russian registration plates in Uzbekistan is allowed for a maximum of 90 days per year. So let’s say it will therefore not work to roll out to neighboring Kazakhstan for “zero”. And then for each day of delay you will be charged fines, which you are obliged to pay when leaving the country. At the same time, even if you leave its borders not by car, but by plane.
In order to communicate on a mobile phone, you must go to the post office and register the device. Otherwise, the fashionable “iPhone” will turn into a useless stone in exactly a month. The procedure will take at least half a day due to the abundance of “come in large numbers”. You will also have to stand behind the local SIM card. There are up to 150-200 people in line to buy a SIM card.
However, there are assistants who are willing to help with registration, obtaining a SIM card and opening a foreign currency account for a fee. That’s just the result or the “durability” that nobody guarantees. By the way, about the bill. If the Uzbeks opened it to Russians in a week in the spring and offered the express option for three business days, confirmation is now required before applying that you have been in the country for at least 15 days. In addition, a foreign currency account is no longer tied to Russian SIM cards. Only for the locals. The ranks of our compatriots extend into the benches for several days. Really in Kazakhstan and for years?
But food, food in taverns and other goods are quite cheap. About two times cheaper than in Russia. They take a lot of stores and rubles, dollars and euros. Of course it will not be possible to pay with a card from our banks. However, it is better to stock up in local currency. So shopping will be much more profitable.
In addition, you are unlikely to agree with the police officers by selling them “foreign” money. And trust me, you’ll have to agree! Here they are still caught for speeding, and radar measurement equipment is often in civilian cars. Yes, and cars with Russian numbers attract more attention from law enforcement. They can “divorce” for everything: a supposedly incorrectly drafted power of attorney or lack thereof, the presence of an oversized jerrycan of petrol in the trunk, strange behavior and suspicion of using something “bad”. The fact is that law enforcement officers like people who have money. In that sense, there is nothing new for car owners who have fled Russia.
Oil Painting – 60 hours at the Russian-Kazakh border, then another 10 hours at the Kazakh-Uzbek border. But no mobilization and a lot of new emotions. That’s just not always positive. The fact is that a Russian cannot just come to Uzbekistan on his “wheels”. For starters, you need to register – without it, you can’t stay in the country for more than three days. This also happens in the hotel, but the majority of Russians who have long arrived here, as expected, are looking for cheaper accommodation. Apart from that, however, you will have to pay the infamous registration fee to the owner who rents the apartment. If he wants to, of course.
Almost everyone in the real estate market in Kazakhstan is “raked out”. Hotels are full, any apartments are indecently expensive. In this regard, Uzbekistan still offers the opportunity to roam. And that is not in Tashkent. Here you won’t find a more or less decent “kopeck piece” cheaper than $500 during the day with fire. More decent homes will ask for all 800. But in Bukhara or Samarkand you can find an apartment with a few rooms for 200 “dollars”. Not in the center of course. True, unlike Tashkent, Russian is spoken here much less and rather poorly. However, no one canceled the sign language.
The residence of a car with Russian registration plates in Uzbekistan is allowed for a maximum of 90 days per year. Let’s say that’s why it won’t work to roll out to neighboring Kazakhstan for “zero”. And then for each day of delay you will be charged fines, which you are obliged to pay when leaving the country. At the same time, even if you leave its borders not by car, but by plane.
In order to communicate on a mobile phone, you must go to the post office and register the device. Otherwise, the fashionable “iPhone” will turn into a useless stone in exactly a month. The procedure will take at least half a day due to the abundance of “come in large numbers”. You will also have to stand behind the local SIM card. There are up to 150-200 people in line to buy a SIM card.
However, there are assistants who are willing to help with registration, obtaining a SIM card and opening an account in foreign currency for a fee. That’s just the result or the “durability” that nobody guarantees. By the way, about the bill. If the Uzbeks opened it to Russians in a week in the spring and offered the express option for three business days, confirmation is now required before applying that you have been in the country for at least 15 days. In addition, a foreign currency account is no longer tied to Russian SIM cards. Only for the locals. The ranks of our compatriots extend into the benches for several days. Really in Kazakhstan and for years?
But food, food in taverns and other goods are quite cheap. About two times cheaper than in Russia. They take a lot of stores and rubles, dollars and euros. Of course it will not be possible to pay with a card from our banks. However, it is better to stock up in local currency. So shopping will be much more profitable.
In addition, you are unlikely to agree with the police officers by selling them “foreign” money. And trust me, you’ll have to agree! Here they are still caught for speeding, and radar measurement equipment is often in civilian cars. Yes, and cars with Russian numbers attract more attention from law enforcement. They can “divorce” for everything: a supposedly incorrectly drafted power of attorney or lack thereof, the presence of an oversized jerrycan of petrol in the trunk, strange behavior and suspicion of using something “bad”. The fact is that law enforcement officers like people who have money. In that sense, there is nothing new for car owners who have fled Russia.
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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