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Those Russians: Evgeny Maruskin

2020-04-28 by Phil Butler

Evgeny Marushkin

Profiles of the real Russian people so few in the west ever come to know. What a tragedy it is, for a great people to be so misunderstood.

Tags: Eastern Europeans, Evgeny Maruskin, Karelia Region, Kremlin Palace, people, Russia 1, Russian celebrities, Russian people, Russian personalities, Russians

Tokyo Woos Russian Travelers to Japan

2018-01-24 by Argophilia Travel News

This week Moscow hotel “Radisson Slavyanskaya” held an event for the travel agencies and the media, and organized a new office for the promotion of tourism in Tokyo, for Russia under the motto “In Tokyo. A Meeting of Old and New.

Tags: Japan, Radisson Slavyanskaya, Russia, Russia outbound, Russia travelers, Russian tourists, Russians, Tokyo

Faces of Russia: Mila Arutyunyan on Immortality

2017-02-26 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Mila Arutyunyan

Anna Novikova with a story about the immortality of the human spirit via Mila Arutyunyan, an Armenian-born Russian shopkeeper.

Tags: Defender of the Fatherland Day, Mila Arutyunyan, Russia, Russian people, Russians, Vitaly Vakhrushev

Yaroslavl’s Sergei Pimenov: Defying the Physics of Life

2017-02-13 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Sergei Pimanov

Yaroslav’s Sergei Pimanov was a physics professor once, but the fates and a bad system abandoned him to a different fate. Today he teaches love and life, selling his magnets and magnetic charm on the streets of the city.

Tags: Among the People, Anna Novikova, Russian destinations, Russian people, Russians, Sergei Pimanov, Vitaly Vakhrushev, Yaroslavl

Among the People of Russia: Vitaly Vakhrushev

2017-01-25 by Phil Butler

Valentin in Yaroslavl

We met the man in the Summer of 2016. We noticed him every time we passed the city center on business. In the evenings he was always there, this good-natured 70-year-old, always, always smiling. On our first meeting I stopped just to say hello, this is when I learned his name is Valentin.

Tags: Among the People, Russia people, Russian photographers, Russians, Vitaly Vakhrushev, Yaroslavl

A Window Into the Russian Soul: An Epiphany 2017

2017-01-20 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Anna Novikova from Moscow

“Where are we going to?” I asked my brother this morning, as he was driving in an unknown direction with a cheeky grin on his face. When no reply seemed imminent I asked; “Are you going to tell me?” Finally his response was; “To wash off our sins in the Volga”.

Tags: Anna Novikova, Epiphany, Orthodox Cathedral in Paris, Russian tradition, Russians, Volga

Winter in Russia: What the Simple Folk Do

2016-12-08 by Phil Butler

Surfing solitude in Kamchatka with my friend Sergey Rasshivaev

For most people who live very far west of the Dnieper River, Russians are an enigma.

Tags: Epiphany, ice diving, Ice Swimming, Russia pastimes, Russians, Sergey Rasshivaev

Russians Spend More & Travel Often – Visa

2015-09-25 by Aleksandr Shatskih

Visa Global Travel Intentions Study 2015

According to the most recent figures from a global study bv Visa, Russians spend on average $2,730 dollars on foreign travel, roughly 20% more than the worldwide average.

Tags: Russian travel, Russians, Turkey Travel, visa, Visa credit

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