Russians Rage Against America -- Mikhail Klikushin, New York Observer
Enduring Sanctions, Anger Turns to Hate: Racist Names for Obama and Putin Disses Coca-Cola
If you talk to a Russian about the international political situation, sooner or later you will be informed that there is a country in North America that you’ve never heard of. Its name is ‘Pindosia,’ ‘Pindostan’ or, more officially, ‘United States of Pindostan,’ and you will be told that one part of it, called Alaska, used to belong to Russia. Part of the word—‘stan’—stands for underdeveloped state, as in ‘ Pakistan,’ ‘Kazakhstan,’ or ‘Uzbekistan.’ The citizens of this country in plural form are called ‘pindoses,’ in singular—‘pindos.’
There are more than 316 million ‘pindoses’ in ‘Pindostan.’
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Update: The stores and stripes: Russian shops show their anti-US sentiment by putting out American flag doormats for customers to wipe their feet on -- Daily Mail
My Comment: Here we go again .... anti-Russian sentiments in the U.S., anti- U.S. sentiments in Russia. The funny thing is .... if given a chance to have U.S. citizenship .... most Russians would jump on it. As for Americans .... well .... unless you are Edward Snowden .... running to Russia is not in the cards .... so far.
Wall Street Journal ran at least a few articles about people moving to Russia and opening up businesses.
ReplyDeleteOne guy opened up pizza parlors and maybe some other businesses in a Siberian city. He married a local.
I think many Americans unless they get homesick from missing friends or family, would move to improve their economic status if they could.
The business climate and has to be good and stay good. Ditto for treatment of foreigners. If you have those things sooner or later borders cease to be an issue.
IMO (& I might be wrong) the business climate seems unfriendly after BP got kicked out of Russia.
The oil industry in Russia is completely politicized ... like everywhere else. So I am not surprised by BP's problems.
ReplyDeleteMy recommendation to those who want to do business in Russia .... find someone that you can trust in Russia and who is a good person .... and work with that person. While corruption is endemic in Russia, there are also a lot of good people .... those are the ones that you want to be with.