I was in Russia last week, amazing country, I enjoyed a lot and visiting there is highly recommended?

[Anonymous]

Is there anyone Russian here?

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A part of my heart remained in that land and the reason for that was the kind and loving people there. I believe that no country should be visited twice and I have always liked to see countries that I have not been to, but in the case of Russia, I really want to go back there.

[KostasKouvalis]

I wanted to visit Russia some day as well, as I always thought Russian culture was so cool. That was until I went to Turkey and was surrounded by Russian tourists and came to realize how fucking arrogant, hateful and self-centered they are.

[Asker]

I didn’t see them arrogant and self centered, instead they’re so kind and passionate.
I went to shopping some cosmetic products like cream, lotion, perfume… from a cosmetic chain store in Russia. What I wanted to buy were varied and in large number. When I went to count, my money was not enough. I showed them my wallet and wanted them to to reduce the number of goods as much as my money.
They said no need and started to use some of their own relief cards and one of them installed the store app on my mobile phone and so I received welcome off also.
So, while my money was not enough (I was almost 50 euros short), I could buy all of the items and that was amazing. 😃😃

[KostasKouvalis]

I'll be completely honest, I've heard a lot of people relay experiences similar to yours. But for some reason, whenever Russians are outside of Russia, they act the complete opposite.

[DryGermanGuy]

I was in Russia years ago and enjoyed the culture and the people immensely. But there is no way I will bring my money into that country while they are invading Ukraine and killing its people.

[Asker]

They think Kiev is for them because so many years ago, that was.
I really don’t care about politics
And you’re right Russians are very kind, influential and cultured.

[Ozanne]

False. Kyiv was not originally part of Russia. Kyiv was standing long before Moscow was even built. Kyivan Rus was not Russia nor part of it, despite having "Rus" in its name which often trips people up. This is all easily researched.

[Asker]

That was part of Soviet Union for many years

[DryGermanGuy]

Luanne was referring to the founding times of Kyiv, before even Tsarist Russia.
There is an embarrassing video online where Putin tries to prove with old maps, that the Ukraine and Kyiv never existed independently. The problem is, it’s clearly marked on his map that it does! 😂

[DryGermanGuy]

Ozanne, not Luanne. Stupid autocorrect. 🙄

[KostasKouvalis]

"Putin tries to prove with old maps, that the Ukraine and Kyiv never existed independently."

It DIDN'T.
Kievan Rus wasn't Ukraine. It was Kievan Rus.

• Kievan Rus'
882
• Galicia–Volhynia
1199
• Cossack Hetmanate
18 August 1649
• People's Republic
20 November 1917
• Soviet Republic
10 March 1919
• Independence declared
24 August 1991
• Current constitution
28 June 1996

[Anonymous]

i didn't know it was still possible to visit russia right now...

[Asker]

It’s possible and there were many tourists there mostly from china even in Moscow airport I saw flight information was written in Russian, English and also Chinese

[Alex8736]

Russia is not as evil as the media and social media portrays it

[Asker]

Are you Russian?

[Alex8736]

Italian but have a lot of friends who immigrated here from Russia

[Asker]

In Russia, people respect putin and they think putin has returned Russia to its previous power.

[slatyb]

I won't go to Russia as long as Putin is in office, or the atrocities in Ukraine continue.

[Asker]

I don't think that Putin leaves and so you would miss something big

[slatyb]

That's ok. There are many countries I won't visit because it's not safe, or because they aren't free.

[AviatorTom]

I visited St Petersburg several years ago, very nice. With what's going on with Ukraine now, Russia is not a good place to visit.

[Asker]

I’ve visited Saint Petersburg and also Moscow. Both of them are amazing. When I was there, I even didn’t feel there is war here. There was peace and safe