only no one has banned btc (yet) here and no one is looking down on homos (well no more then in any other country).... dont believe the tv mate
My apologies. Still on the fence about that though. A European country would be a huge change for me, but it would still be Western, you know? I don't know if I could handle Russian culture shock. I'd also be afraid because of the Ukraine situation... in the event the US were to get drawn into a conflict with Russia I'd be the guy with the American accent.
No worries, for some strange reason people think its still 19th century here. Well Russia is just VERY different from the West, it will never be the same as the West. The thing is people dont want it to be that way. Even people that belong to the opposition dont want to follow the West footsteps, wheter in culture, development ways, laws or whatever else.
So defently you are right about culture shock, as its nothing alike Europe. As for the Ukraine part - well.... i dont know to what extent you guys are expossed to the information in your media, but i highly doubt there will be a third world war begging over the situation. For now the situation has slighlty stabilized, although there are still a few hundred thousand refugees from the Ukraine in Russia. As for whatever anyone tells you - well Russia pays daily income to those refugees per person and helps with finding homes and jobs. I am personally involved in those situation so no need for me to watch the news over this one )))
Im sure at the end of the day the situation will stabilize and it will take some years to bring it to what it was (10-20 years) but thats just the beggining, unfortantly things like what happened in the Ukraine will begin to happen more frequently across the world and Europe too i believe.