Not in Russia
Guidelines, advice, and warnings: clips about what not to do in Russia. Many common-sense tips and things you could probably figure out yourself. Still, it’s useful to take note of, especially for those traveling eastward.
13 Things You Should Never Do in Russia
(alexusadays, 2017, 8 m)
Top 10 Things You Should Never Do in Russia
(Crunch, 2018, 6 m)
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See
- What is polite and impolite in Russia? (Russian With Max, 2020, 57 m)
- Never Do This in Russia (Easy Russian, 2019, 10 m)
- Good Manners: What to Do and Say in Russian? (RussianPod101, 2019, 26 m)
- Правила этикета (русский с носителем, 2019, 5 m)
- Don’t Do This In Russia! (Bald and Bankrupt, 2019, 9 m)
- 7 things foreigners shouldn’t do in Russia (Russia Beyond, 2018, 3 m), also see Which of your habits will be considered annoying in Russia? (2018, 5 m)
- Top 5 Things in America that are not okay in Russia (Living Life, 2017, 13 m)
- The Don’ts of Visiting Russia (Wolters World, 2017, 5 m)
- 8 Things NOT to Do in Russia (Destination Tips, 2016, 4 m)
- Правила выживания в России для иностранцев (Easy Russian, 2016, 5 m)
- 7 things you should NEVER do in Russia (Kris Amerikos, 2016, 9 m)
- Russian Culture Tips: What not to do (Lifey, 2015, 2 m)
See/read
- 10 things a foreigner should never do in Russia (Russia Beyond, 2018)
- 11 Things Tourists Should Never Do While Visiting Russia (Culture Trip, 2017)
- Как вести себя в России: советуют иностранцы (Rusbase, 2015)
- Russia for first-timers: dos and don’ts (Lonely Planet)
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The Netherlands holds a unique place in the Russian imagination. This is how our country, and we, are viewed through Russian eyes.
An interview becomes legendary when it gets its own page on
Wikipedia. On February 6, 2024, Tucker Carlson spoke with Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin. The report (127 minutes) offers a good, or at least broad, opportunity to hear the Russian perspective on the war against Ukraine.
What we would call ’tokkies’ or ‘gabbers’, and what elsewhere might be referred to as white trash or hooligans – in Russia, these are called gopniki. Folk culture in a tracksuit.
Since the age of sixteen, Игорь Мухин (1961) has been taking photographs. Armed with a
Смена-8М camera, he started his journey. So, when he found himself among artists and musicians in the 1980s, he already had a trained eye – and a better camera. Mukhin (sometimes Moukhin) witnessed major changes and began documenting them.
Freedom of speech is decreasing everywhere, though the reasons vary by region. Meanwhile, Big Tech’s power is growing, along with its interference. In this new era, a nearly forgotten Soviet answer is reemerging: samizdat, the underground DIY press and distribution network.
Every country has a flag and a coat of arms. The Netherlands has a lion, France has a rooster, New Zealand has a kiwi, and the United States has a bald eagle. In Russia, it’s an eagle with two heads and three crowns, and a man on a horse who has just killed a dragon with a spear.
