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what does the sign read both in its Japanese and Russian version? --Abdull 22:12, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

I don't know about Russian, but the Japanese is 外国人の方の入場をお断りいたします gaikokujin no kata no nyūjō o okotowariitashimasu, "Entry of foreigners is refused". It's polite, too, using gaikokujin instead of the more informal gaijin, and using a humble verb form. Quite unlike the terse English version :/ --Ptcamn 04:03, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

Russian is something like "We kindly ask foreign citizens not to enter the building". This is a very polite poite form, i've never seen anyting like this in Moscow. Notihng like our "NO ENTRY UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES!!!" signs. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 85.140.207.100 (talk • contribs).