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??

 

[Hardcalibres]

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.

.....and I clearly stated that:

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.

So yes I am referring to both urban and rural areas because I have traveled to both.

2) You think that guy has a russian accent??

He has the remnants of a Russian accent combined with an Aussie accent. His parents were probably Russian and he may well have grown up in Russia. I would bet he is also a Russian speaker.

People can and do have accents that are a combination of the places they have lived.....and/or the people they have lived/worked with.

When I was working in Russia, I met a translator that had never been to Australia......but spoke english with an Australian accent......because he had worked translating for an Australian company operating in Russia. He had picked up an Aussie accent from the guys he translated for.

In my experience, when you travel around a lot, your home accent becomes milder as you try to make it easier for those around you to understand you.

You can still freely travel to Russia.

But, for now, that is not a good idea.

Many expat Russians and children of Russians are quite patriotic. They mostly remain faithful to "mother Russia". That is the likely motivation he has for making a "everything is rosy in Russia" video.......but it is also the case that sanctions by the US don't have much effect on Russia......because the long history of sanctions between the US and Russia has prevented the development of strong trade links.

But I am more debating that I woudn't take a video like that on face value more so than suggesting that Russia's situation is dire.

I also assess that when discussing the situation in Russia, there are many parts to that including:

1. What is the situation for the Russian people
2. What is the situation for the Russian Oligarchs
3. What is the situation for the Russian leadership
4. What is the situation for the Russian military

 

[Amish Heart]

Regarding accents while foreigners are speaking english....it's who they learned from. When we lived in France, everyone I met that spoke english sounded British to me.

 

[Rick]

I am also fairly well traveled in Ruyssia and Ukraine and at his instant actually live in Central Europe. (logging in via VPN)
I (used to) speak a bit of Russian myself in addition to English, (used to) French and even now still fluent German.
When I speak Russian I have often been told I speak it with a French accent. though French is not my mother tongue, but it was the first language I learned as a Foreign language.

In any event, I could not detect an accent when the man spoke. Not sure if it matters too. Diminishing a point beause of who says it, is not good practice.

Also I believe challenging the mainstream narrative everywhere , to include, and especially, the Russia issue, as key to our national Survival.
Nobody benefits from it when the treason class gets to unleash an armed conflict with Russia, as it allows them to:

a) Decimate the number of patriotic men who would be the first to fight
b) Punish Russia for getting rid of communism and kicking out Soros' .
c) Paint anyone who figured them out, as "traitors" when it is they who are the traitors.

 

[Hardcalibres]

I am also fairly well traveled in Ruyssia and Ukraine and at his instant actually live in Central Europe. (logging in via VPN)
I (used to) speak a bit of Russian myself in addition to English, (used to) French and even now still fluent German.
When I speak Russian I have often been told I speak it with a French accent. though French is not my mother tongue, but it was the first language I learned as a Foreign language.

In any event, I could not detect an accent when the man spoke. Not sure if it matters too. Diminishing a point beause of who says it, is not good practice.

Also I believe challenging the mainstream narrative everywhere , to include, and especially, the Russia issue, as key to our national Survival.
Nobody benefits from it when the treason class gets to unleash an armed conflict with Russia, as it allows them to:

a) Decimate the number of patriotic men who would be the first to fight
b) Punish Russia for getting rid of communism and kicking out Soros' .
c) Paint anyone who figured them out, as "traitors" when it is they who are the traitors.

What Russia does, is not decided by the Russians......it is all about Putin.

 

[SLADE]

How much money does the average russian earn in moscow?
321 dollars a month average

 

[Hardcalibres]

How much money does the average russian earn in moscow?

Around US$10K per year.

 

[M0del_31]

I've been in IT for over 30+ years. Both, the experts and info babes get something wrong every time they try to talk about technology. Same with firearms, gun, hunting and fishing laws. Always something wrong. I see the agenda on the latters, but there not really a reason to mislead on technology.
I want to trust what my relatively local press says about foreign countries but cannot. I want to trust what foreign countries say about themselves but cannot. All either have an agenda or are just flat stupid on the topic and I'm not going over just to find out. I've talked to medical doctors that I respect that are familiar with the area and flat out said some of the Russian soldiers rape women and men in Ukraine. I think I'd like for the fighting and dying to stop over there but I do not have enough facts from sources I trust to suggest how to do it.

 

[SLADE]

Around US$10K per year.

At 321 average a month in moscow your yearly income seems quire high.

 

[Hardcalibres]

At 321 average a month in moscow your yearly income seems quire high.

It is around what office workers and translators were getting.

The Russian economy has a lot of inequality.......so perhaps the numerical average is moot. There may in fact be very few average people.

 

[TENNGRIZZ]

I've been in IT for over 30+ years. Both, the experts and info babes get something wrong every time they try to talk about technology. Same with firearms, gun, hunting and fishing laws. Always something wrong. I see the agenda on the latters, but there not really a reason to mislead on technology.
I want to trust what my relatively local press says about foreign countries but cannot. I want to trust what foreign countries say about themselves but cannot. All either have an agenda or are just flat stupid on the topic and I'm not going over just to find out. I've talked to medical doctors that I respect that are familiar with the area and flat out said some of the Russian soldiers rape women and men in Ukraine. I think I'd like for the fighting and dying to stop over there but I do not have enough facts from sources I trust to suggest how to do it.

& Ukraine does as well.

 

[Hardcalibres]

& Ukraine does as well.

Yep - there are almost no rules in that conflict.

It has got way past personal.

 

[Mountain trapper]

It is around what office workers and translators were getting.

The Russian economy has a lot of inequality.......so perhaps the numerical average is moot. There may in fact be very few average people.

It seems like I was paying my employees over there around $250 per month for mechanics and drivers. The income tax was 12%. I loved it.

 

[Hardcalibres]

It seems like I was paying my employees over there around $250 per month for mechanics and drivers. The income tax was 12%. I loved it.

It doesn't sound like they would be doing much shopping at the new mall.

 

[Snowman]

Facts or falsehoods, there sure isn't many shoppers according to that OP Video...?!?

 

[Mountain trapper]

It doesn't sound like they would be doing much shopping at the new mall.

True. But there are a lot of people in Russia that have plenty of money. Since the collapse of the old Soviet Union a lot of smart Russians started small businesses. I even mentored a few who ended up with very good contracts with the oil companies that I worked for.

 

[Hardcalibres]

True. But there are a lot of people in Russia that have plenty of money. Since the collapse of the old Soviet Union a lot of smart Russians started small businesses. I even mentored a few who ended up with very good contracts with the oil companies that I worked for.

Yep - when I travelled around, there were a lot of people in all points of the income spectrum.

Some are fabulously wealthy, some are very middle class and driving around in imported cars and eating in quite expensive restaurants........and many others are still living in Soviet Era apartment blocks.....of which there are still thousands in Moscow.

Overall Russia is more unequal than most other places I have visited.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Yep - when I travelled around, there were a lot of people in all points of the income spectrum.

Some are fabulously wealthy, some are very middle class and driving around in imported cars and eating in quite expensive restaurants........and many others are still living in Soviet Era apartment blocks.....of which there are still thousands in Moscow.

Overall Russia is more unequal than most other places I have visited.

Yep. They are free to succeed or fail on their own. No picking winners and losers by the government. No propping up certain groups of people. They have fair tax system where all people pay the same small percentage. It's the type of system like we used to have.

 

[Ekatarina]

And they dont aloud graffitis on walls

 

[Ekatarina]