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Going there on business next week, and the few threads about Moscow that we have are not very thorough.
I was able to find out a few names of bars where supposedly forum members have had luck - Papa's Place, Che Bar, Real McCoy, Dolls&Pistols.
I looked them up on the map and they seem to be clustered in a place about 5km from the hotel I will be staying. The hotel was described to me as being downtown, and it does look it on the map - but I guess the city is so huge that anything within 5km counts as "nearby".
Maybe I'll walk around the hotel at nights and see where the action is. Or I'll take the metro to the place where these bars are.
I hope to be able to devote at least a few nights to gaming, and will bust out a datasheet when I come back. Day game will not be in the program, because I will be working.

In the meantime, if you have any tips for me, please share.
For the record, I speak conversational Russian and have many Russian notches on my belt, so I'll be looking to mix in with the locals - hopefully avoid expat places where gold-diggers go looking for oil&gas executives.

Post: #2

Anything on the metro ring will be considered downtown. The moscow metro essentially has a ring of around 7 or 8 stops which basically all their train lines converge on. You can just go stop to stop till you find something.

Post: #3

I was there in October 2010 and we went to this club called Pacha near the Red Square. It was absolutely unbelievable, as they exercise face control. Back then it was very hard to get in. Also, I think Moscow is similar to NYC or LA in that the "hot" clubs last only a short time. Not sure of Pacha now is the same as it used to be. I have a video I can upload and attach of a girl there.

I wrote up a detailed email about my Moscow stint, let me try to find it and I'll post it here. This was pre-RVF days so it won't be as detailed a data sheet as I would like. Also this was pre-game so sadly I didn't hook up with any girls (though I did in Poland).