Bro's, Retabolil and Vovan are good guys, serious and knowledgeable. A great exchange of information and mutual concerns (the subject of a different, more serious post, so keep your heads up!).

It was cool! There we were for 3 hours in that noisy, crowded restaurant, passing amps back and forth across the table, comparing blisters, doing crush tests on the table! :)

Again, nice to meet you fellows!

Dexter

Hey Huck! I just noticed that your post was NUMBER 2000!

I'm not sure whether or not to congratulate you, because here in Moscow it is Friday the 13th...

Dexter

he-he! j/k

And all those amps and vials and blisters got me so excited, well, I needed a few beers to calm me down. :)

Yes, Retabolil, I like the crush test idea. Please give Dimotchka my best regards first!

Got your mail. You should have mine.

Dexter

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awesome, that you had this opportunity, bros. damn....next time invite Pharm A to your AMPFEST!!! LOL

Gee, we should make this a regular event, sort of an informal Russian Juice Association get together. All serious bro's welcome, though. Smokers and drinkers included, naturally (so to speak). :)

Hmmm. Maybe we should even form a non-profit association.

No. On second thought, that might antagonize the fucking monopolistic AAS syndicate here...

Dexter

I really enjoyed meeting you in Warsaw in August. Maybe we could get some other Eastern European bro's together, too. That would be cool.

But I won't be taking any 1998 Akrikhins with me, especially pass that diabolical Belarus customs!

Dexter

THIS IS STARTING TO FEEL LIKE A PARTY!!!

Great to see you here, Zhenya! I didn't think you were an EF person. Welcome. Don't be a stranger, okay? I know you can contribute a lot to this board, which is the best on the Internet.

Bro's, Zhenya is from Ukraine and he is cool. A serious and knowledgeable fellow.

Dexter

Dexter

Good luck Bro.
Keep me up to date.

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"Obsession is passion. Use it. Make it your strength." -by Puc

By the way, I was sort of wondering if you'd still be hanging out here, since you're all starry-eyed in love and whatnot. :)

bud, like the Club Med idea. Hmmm, maybe Club Royd.

Shirts and shoes required, though. And obnoxious imposters are kindly excused. :)

And you'll see some of the foxiest babes you could ever imagine. Real beauties.

Kneepads, it depends on a lot of things. Gear is generally very cheap in the Eastern European countries and in Russia. Sort of Economics 101: Cheaper to manufacture, and purchasers who don't have a lot of money (in proportion to the supercharged economies).

Price really depends on where you get it: the pharmacy or from a "supplier" who basically gets it from the loading dock of the factory.

In most countries of the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact, gear is considered medicine. While technically requiring a doctor's prescription for most gear, for example, I can go to a pharmacy and purchase Dutch Organon Sustanon250, no problem. Or, in fact, a variety of other drugs that are definitely scheduled in the west.

Moreover, the public just perceives gear here differently. Keep in mind that in the Cold War days, the Soviet Union and other Eastern Union countries practically made a science out of steroids for athletes (went way too far, in my opinion, based on stuff being revealed in Germany).

And it's still considered pretty normative that athletes use gear -- but now they just have to be more careful to get around drug testing restrictions.

Dexter

P.S. Day 1 of my Akrikhin guinea pig cycle.

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Dex,

ABC's 20/20 ran an interesting segment this past Friday re: the former East German program "State plan 1425." Nothing ground-breaking, and certainly followed the traditional anti-steroid slant, but it caught my attention.

We'll see. I'll keep in touch.

Dexter

He had this idea to commercialize a part of the satellite capacity they use for command and control of the Strategic Rocket Forces (that was back in the good old days when everybody was privatizing and commercializing state assets)!

That idea sucked, but I met some cool people in the process, went back to the U.S., pulled together a couple of million in investment money, and started and headed a telcommunications business here. Been living here since 1993.

Made big bucks; lost big bucks. Expanded the business. Married and divorced a stunning fashion model. Businesses got whacked during the financial meltdown of August 1998. Businesses got taken over by some predatory new investors. Dex got fed up and left his great job and 550 great employees in five companies.

Now Dex, well, spends time at the gym -- and watches his former companies (and stock value) going down the toilet under "new management." :)

Dexter

Second day of my "laboratory animal" test of that 1998 Akrikhin D-bol. I'm sick to my stomach; maybe it was bad food from last night, we'll see. Going to go to bed now, and it's about 6:00 PM here. :(

Dexter

Dexter