Are there skinheads in Mosow who could beat me up?

Yes, we've got plenty of skinheads in Moscow. Some genetic kink in the Slavic gene pool causes some people to have very little hair on their head, have very pale skin and blue eyes. Somehow they feel that they must be part of the great 'white-power', neo-Nazi movement.

If you are a not a white person, take the following precautions to avoid being beaten up into pulp:

1) Stay in your hotel at all times.

2)

If you must go outside:

1) Wear a blonde wig, blue contact-lenses and apply make-up to make your skin white.

2) Hire a car-full of AK-47-touting bodyguards. (Ask to speak to Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov at your friendly car-rental office.)

3) Wear an armband as seen on any "white-power" website or in any WWII movie (the red and white ones, dammit!).