Russia is a state within a state. To understand the population of Russia, you need to know the areas of the country; you need an understanding of the people and their interests.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Russia is very big and very varied. People are different in different regions.
In the Russian experience, although the Russian state is oppressive, it is their state, it is part of their fabric, and so the relation between Russian citizens and their state is complicated.
I am interested in the subject which is Russia.
I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the literature and the history to the place.
From the country with limited hope to grow your own business and express your own personality, Russia has become the land of significant opportunity.
I don't have any opinions about Russians. There are celebrity persons in each country. Different people do different things.
We must remember, too, that the Russian population of the Caucasus are to a large extent Muslims, and the areas such as Georgia which have aspirations of their own.
At the end of all this, Russia held in her hands a vast belt of land running from the Baltic sea in the north to the Black Sea in the south, comprising eleven nations with a population of 100 million people.
The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not.
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.