The ads for these show them in laundry rooms the size of my whole apt and they are aimed at rich Russians or foreigners.
I'm not rich, I'm not even middle-class and I can easily afford them.

Dry cleaning is also very expensive for the average salary here even though the prices are the same as in America. Most people I know don't dry clean but use spot removers and brushes to clean winter coats.
Don't know about Moscow, could be, come to St Pete, it's dirt cheap here.

Most people dry their clothes on their balcony or in the bathroom. Socks are frequently dried on the bath hot water pipes. If it's raining or winter it can take days to dry things. My cotton shirts are stretched out and my towels are crunchy from line drying.
No wonder they are - I mean if you will do such silly things... Most Americans I've known couldn't handle their ropes properly. Come to St Pete, we're all mostly sea-faring folk, we will teach you how to hang dry your clothes without ruining them.

Laundry habits here have to do with economics and not care for the environment.
Just what the hell do you know about us anyway, gall spitting propaganda artist that you are.

If people here gave a @@@@ about the environment the parks and forests would not be covered in plastic bags, papers and broken beer bottles. Russian recycling consists of leaving the beer bottles intact on the curb for poor people to collect and get the refund.
Lies, lies, all shameless lies. Those few piles of rubbish you've seen were no doubt around areas populated by the people from other parts of the ex USSR - it's not that I'm blaming them or anything - when the USSR chose to transform itself slightly many people became very curious to see large Russian cities and naturally they were overawed by their splendour. Unfortunately the side effect was that some of them suffered a strong culture shock which prevented a bunch of them from acquiring our Slavic traditions of taking care of the environment. Nevertheless most Russians and all other ex-USSR peoples remain the most environment-concious people in the world.

BJ, you cannot post such negativism about this glorious country - first of all what you post is not true and secondly you will never master Russian if you speak so desparagingly of its people. Most foreigners, rejected by the Western civilization, come to Russia in search of succor and support which they find soon enough if they respect our unique Slavic ways. I can see you derive extreme pleasure out of posting lies about my country. Evil people like you will come and go but the glorious Russian Empire will exist for ever.

Rule Rossiya, [/i]Rossiya[/i] rule the waves
Russians never, ever, ever shall be slaves!