Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The Internet can give young people a fantastic platform to become financially independent and have global businesses without leaving Russia.
I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.
We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
So I started to learn Russian and I was one of those probably way too eager, annoying young actor kids who was trying to change all my lines to Russian, much to the dismay of the director and Nic Cage.
In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
My biggest entertainment in Moscow was to go to the subway and watch people. When American students visited, I watched them; I learned English from them.
I started like many young Russian people in the beginning of perestroika when it seemed that everything was possible.
The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.
The great drama of Russian history has been between its state and society. Put simply, Russia has always had too much state and not enough society.
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