В Россию-- вперед! (с многих денег?)

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Entirely unrelated to this community, but I find that the members here are quite helpful and knowledgeable, so I'll give it a go:

Looking for travel options from the UK to Russia (Moscow) in September (TO LIVE NOT BE TOURIST), I'm seeing they cost roughly £150-£300. However, I've heard that it's "much cheaper" to just fly to a major Eastern-European hub inside the EU like Warsaw, Riga or Talinn and actually go into Russia by train. Is this bollocks? £200 isn't cheap by my standards, but it seems pretty cheap for a long flight like that. I have no clue how expensive/cheap a Polish long-distance train might be.

Finally, Russians always seem to tell me that "Russia/Moscow is one of the most expensive places in the world". Coming from a place like the UK, them's fightin' words. How bad is it, really? I mean, what kind of budget should I prepare as a student (who's only drunk ~1 night per week)? I don't want to end up on the street/starving/perpetually sober, especially in Moscow.

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thanks to all of you who helped me out with my poem problems. It turned out to be Утес by Михаил Лермонтов.

Sadly, it is our final day of russian class on friday, and we are all celebrating with a pot luck. So do you guys have any suggestions on what I should make for the pot luck? Im looking for something easy, that I can't screw up, perhaps a cake?