Wow! Spasiba bolshoye! I'm gonna print this out and head down to Telemir next week after I get back from the mountains.
ни водка ни пиво, денги на ветер

@ Friendy, about the Goga character: in what way did you find his attitude to women offensive? I guess my language skills were not really good enough to pick up on that.. ) . About stereotypes and culture, I think this film was successful in showing culture precisely because it wasn't trying to do that at all. cf 'the Barber of Siberia' - rather poor IMO, despite all the money they threw at it.