Although many parts of Russia are beautiful, don't fall for just the pretty pictures of the clean places presented to the public. And it's very inadvisable to travel there. Crime, bulgraries, and thefts are high, and it's very easy for Russians to spot foreigners: if you are dressed in nice new-ish clothing and look happy and not angry or hostile, you are a foreigner, and can be a target for a mugging, or be ripped off by a shop owner, or a taxi that drives you to the middle of nowhere and extorts more money from you to drive you back. The government is not friendly, too, and can detain you for any reason if they think you could be "brainwashing" their people with "pro western" propaganda. They can even detain you right at the airport and after interrogating you force you to fly back to your own country, even if you are only there passing through on a connecting flight. My parents' friends were flying to Germany for vacation through Sheremetyevo airport, and were detained and forced to fly back, forfeiting their plane ticket, losing money, and losing three days of their vacation, and that was a year ago, before the recent thing with Russia started.
But here are some more pictures to go with this thread's topic
(Moscow)
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