I've not been to russia,
But I've worked in the 80's in the Soviet Union in the far east when they were starting to modernize their oil industry. What I worked on eventually became Yukos.
My brother also worked in a different part of the oil patch and his experience was the same as mine.
It was an absolute shiiite hole.
Good places in russia, sure. But it's a very big country
Most of it is an absolute bombed out looking hell hole
My experience is not shaped by your evil MSM but by what I saw and experienced and the people I worked with over the course of 2 years.
The russians I worked with said it was a shiit hole and there experiences were horrifing.
Big difference in being a tourist and living and working in a country
Much like Thailand or anywhere else.