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>blatant nationalism
>blatant racism
>blatant homophobia
implying something of this is bad
>fascist criminal justice
just in your media
>fucking bureaucracy
a little
>shitty visa restrictions
don't know anything about it
>paranoid security checks
we had not very peaceful situation there for a long time
>shitty no go areas with high criminality
like in any other country
>shitty cops
maybe they were
>shitty/unreliable infrastructure
one of the best for such territory
>rude as fuck people (mostly Moscow though)
cannot say anything about Moscow
>on average extremely poor knowledge on foreign languages
well, it's your fault that you cannot speak Russian(or use phrasebook), I know English a little and it's not my native language.
logical conclusion::
use services like couchsurfing, find a guide before you go there if you do it first time.
