Mainstream media is telling you "Russia is collapsing, Malls are closing" meanwhile..

[Rick]

An Australian in Moscow just a couple days ago:

 

[Hardcalibres]

Strange that he is there......is it as a tourist?

The Australian Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade runs a "Smart Traveller" website which advises Australians about travel to each specific country.

From the Smart Traveller Site:

We continue to advise:


Do not travel to Russia due to the dangerous security situation, the impacts of the military conflict with Ukraine and the risk of arbitrary detention or arrest.

https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/europe/russia

Inflation in Russia is running at 10%.

That would not be popular with locals.

 

[Pearl]

If mainstream media is reporting it, I don't believe it!!

 

[Rick]

Strange that he is there......is it as a tourist?

The Australian Dept of Foreign Affairs and Trade runs a "Smart Traveller" website which advises Australians about travel to each specific country.

From the Smart Traveller Site:



https://www.smartraveller.gov.au/destinations/europe/russia

Inflation in Russia is running at 10%.

That would not be popular with locals.

You can still freely travel to Russia.

 

[Hardcalibres]

If mainstream media is reporting it, I don't believe it!!

Propaganda doesn't work like that.

If what a source reports is 100% lies, then it won't make sense and the reports will be obviously incorrect.

If instead you just change or even bend the minimum number of facts, you can usually make readers come to an incorrect (intended) conclusion from the report.

When you read reports from the main stream media, they will be >95% factual.

The reports designed to be misleading will only be changed to the minimum extent required to mislead.

I read many reports from the MSM.....I just ensure that I fact check the most important parts of the reports and use common sense to identify the angle the reporter might be pushing.

I have visited Russia several times over the last decade.......and most Russians don't have access to a shopping mall like the one in the video.

I suspect from the guy in the videos accent, that he is ethnic Russian and probably has a Russian passport in addition to his Australian passport.

 

[Hardcalibres]

You can still freely travel to Russia.

Of the many non-Russian people I know who were, none still are.

The Russians I work with in my day job, haven't gone back for a few years, out of fear of being drafted and sent to Ukraine.

 

[TENNGRIZZ]

If mainstream media is reporting it, I don't believe it!!

This^

 

[Rick]

And for good measure Russel posts a vid of a cheap supermarket..

 

[Rick]

1) I have visited Russia several times over the last decade.......and most Russians don't have access to a shopping mall like the one in the video.

2) I suspect from the guy in the videos accent, that he is ethnic Russian and probably has a Russian passport in addition to his Australian passport.

1)I been there as well and malls and markets look mostly like here. Except little kids are better behaved and thye are cleaner.
Now in the provinces, yes they absolutely do not have malls like this, but the guy clearly stated this was Moscow.
2) You think that guy has a russian accent??