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I've just come back from Russia, ask me a question

 
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Privet! Какую пищу вы едите???
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Guess that didn't work. I was asking what food you ate that you enjoyed?
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What was the"differentest" thing you saw about Russian society? How long were you there and which cities/towns did you visit?
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What was the purpose of your visit? Where all did you visit?
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We are. Answer.
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I've just come back from Russia, ask me a question?
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Do they still make you leave your passport at the hotel front desk when you check in?

Are the Richy Rich's who pay extra for a blue cop light in their car still allowed to bypass traffic and park wherever they damn well please?
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08/17/2017 10:23 AM
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I would ask how they are coping with the sanctions and if they really are turning back to religion ( Orthodox Christian)

Did you see a black person or other minority?

How is the internet and is it totally controlled?

Is the media really free, what were the headlines?
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Privet! Какую пищу вы едите???
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Spasibo. щу вы едит&#1077 74998770:MV8zNjA4NzEwXzY0NDE2MTI4X0QyRUEyMEQ3]
Privet! Какую пи
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Guess that didn't work. I was asking what food you ate that you enjoyed?
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Salmon, and vodka with fresh lemon :)
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Re: I've just come back from Russia, ask me a question
Was trump running out of the kremlin ?
We are a REPUBLIC.If we can keep it MORAN!
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This could have been an interesting thread.
Communism is for LOSERS
Communism is SLAVERY

Fuck Joe Biden
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What was the"differentest" thing you saw about Russian society? How long were you there and which cities/towns did you visit?
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How unwilling to smile back they were, and able to go into deeper subjects quite quickly, and there is a poetic beauty of soul in them, somehow, and they ALL dress well.
In the cities that I visited anyway, St.Petersburg and Moscow.
The Moscovites were the more friendly.
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What was the purpose of your visit? Where all did you visit?
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I read the Russian classics as a girl, 'War and Peace' and 'Crime and Punishment' etc. so I've always wanted to see what they saw, and I was curious about how life was there, after communism.
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Was there any anti-american sentiment? Anything in regards to Obama or Trump?
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What was the purpose of your visit? Where all did you visit?
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I read the Russian classics as a girl, 'War and Peace' and 'Crime and Punishment' etc. so I've always wanted to see what they saw, and I was curious about how life was there, after communism.
 Quoting: MrsO


Love to hear your intellectual curiosity. :) Sounds like a great trip. Where all did you visit?
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Privet! Какую пищу вы едите???
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Nie magoo neitz ot tebya chitat
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I've just come back from Russia, ask me a question?
 Quoting: MrsO


Do they still make you leave your passport at the hotel front desk when you check in?

Are the Richy Rich's who pay extra for a blue cop light in their car still allowed to bypass traffic and park wherever they damn well please?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74775434


Don't think so, although we stayed in airbnb places.

I was expecting more heavy officiousness than we got, though there certainly is a fair amount of it, crossing the border on a train to Finland, the Russian border security guy took ten minutes or so to scrutinize my friend's Australian passport, confer with a colleaque, and the Finn came in making a friendly joke, the difference was striking.
I didn't see any of that blue light b/s either.
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They werent scary or filthy?
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Was there any anti-american sentiment? Anything in regards to Obama or Trump?
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Anti-American - not in any obvious way, more like a pronounced confidence in their own culture, an unwillingness to speak English, even to cater to tourism with their signs on public transport being usually only in cryllic.
To me it seemed they couldn't be bothered to speak of Obama or Trump, or even Putin, or maybe unwilling to talk politics with foreigners, I don't know. We mainly spoke to taxi-drivers, anyway.

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What was the purpose of your visit? Where all did you visit?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64689407


I read the Russian classics as a girl, 'War and Peace' and 'Crime and Punishment' etc. so I've always wanted to see what they saw, and I was curious about how life was there, after communism.
 Quoting: MrsO


Love to hear your intellectual curiosity. :) Sounds like a great trip. Where all did you visit?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 64689407


It really was great, thanks :)

The highlights were the opera in St. Petersburg, a jazz bar called 'The Hat'
the ballet in Moscow, cocktails at the Red Square, the Kremlin and the stupendously magnificent architecture, especially the churches.
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Privet! Какую пищу вы едите???
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Spasibo. щу вы едит&#1077 74998770:MV8zNjA4NzEwXzY0NDE2MTI4X0QyRUEyMEQ3]
Privet! Какую пи
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Nie magoo neitz ot tebya chitat
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YA dumayu, chto eto vzdor.
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They werent scary or filthy?
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Nope.
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Did the lack of questions in Russia leave you starving for questions so much that you had to come home, go online, write this post?
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Did the lack of questions in Russia leave you starving for questions so much that you had to come home, go online, write this post?
 Quoting: Fishticon


Mabe that splains it.

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What was the"differentest" thing you saw about Russian society? How long were you there and which cities/towns did you visit?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8177690


How unwilling to smile back they were, and able to go into deeper subjects quite quickly, and there is a poetic beauty of soul in them, somehow, and they ALL dress well.
In the cities that I visited anyway, St.Petersburg and Moscow.
The Moscovites were the more friendly.
 Quoting: MrsO


Russians don't smile. At any rate there is not such a thing as pro forma etiquette.
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Did the lack of questions in Russia leave you starving for questions so much that you had to come home, go online, write this post?
 Quoting: Fishticon


As a child, did your father forget to catch you after tossing you in the air?
- Do you really think you're free?
- Anything that requires a license, permit, or a tax makes you a serf/vassal to the entity that requires it of you.
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Any blacks? Rap music? Thugs? Homeless people?
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What was the"differentest" thing you saw about Russian society? How long were you there and which cities/towns did you visit?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 8177690


How unwilling to smile back they were, and able to go into deeper subjects quite quickly, and there is a poetic beauty of soul in them, somehow, and they ALL dress well.
In the cities that I visited anyway, St.Petersburg and Moscow.
The Moscovites were the more friendly.
 Quoting: MrsO


Russians don't smile. At any rate there is not such a thing as pro forma etiquette.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 75397611


No there isn't, the amount of smiling most Westerners do is quite nauseating, especially if it's not genuine. Russians do smile, it's rarer, but twice as close.
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Any blacks? Rap music? Thugs? Homeless people?
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Moscow was very cosmopolitan, all races, and yes, rap could be heard on the streets.
Some homeless alcoholics, but no thugs, it was very safe to walk around at night.
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I've just come back from Russia, ask me a question?
 Quoting: MrsO


Do they still make you leave your passport at the hotel front desk when you check in?

Are the Richy Rich's who pay extra for a blue cop light in their car still allowed to bypass traffic and park wherever they damn well please?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 74775434


Don't think so, although we stayed in airbnb places.

I was expecting more heavy officiousness than we got, though there certainly is a fair amount of it, crossing the border on a train to Finland, the Russian border security guy took ten minutes or so to scrutinize my friend's Australian passport, confer with a colleaque, and the Finn came in making a friendly joke, the difference was striking.
I didn't see any of that blue light b/s either.
 Quoting: MrsO


We like Finns, they come to Saint Petersburg for the express purpose of drinking like holes.





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