Considering Russian is not only spoken in Russia but also in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, what would be the safest country to travel to where you can speak Russian? Probably not Russia or Ukraine because of the war but yeah.
Are you looking for practicing your Russian?
Are you gonna suggest CS2?
Estonia is like an extension of Finland (although using Russian there might be hard for the same reason). Kazakhstan has a good rep.
Moldova, Georgia and Armenia have fighting or unrest. Azerbaijan too although they kind of won, and Belarus is party to the whole Russia/Ukraine thing. Turkmenistan has a bad rep for other reasons and is hard to legally get into.
I know less about the other Baltics and 'stans from a safety perspective, although presumably the Baltics are similar to other poor areas of the EU.
According to the travel advisory, that would be Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan where you can all “exercise normal precautions”.
Would not recommend people to go to the Baltic states in order to use/practice their Russian though. Central Asia is probably the way to go for that purpose.
Why not? Not spoken enough or frowned upon or something else?
Afaik it’s somewhat frowned upon in Baltic societies since the Russian war in Ukraine. You’ll probably find some people who’ll happily speak Russian with you, but others might judge you for speaking Russian but not their national language.
None of the above…
Depends. If you’re queer, definitely not anywhere in the former USSR (except for some of the Baltics).
If you’re not queer, and speak a language of that region, probably that area is your best bet to blend in.
I guess it’s Belarus.
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France is not russian speaking.
I doubt it’s safe for foreigners.
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Safe for whom? Also, speaking Russian might not be the most popular right now, depending on where you go.
I’ve kind of wondered if they’d fault a foreigner for using Russian in Ukraine. It’s just so much more widely spoken, learning Ukrainian makes no practical sense.
Practical sense has nothing to do with common courtesy.
You dont have to study up until you speak Ukranian perfectly. You just have to make an effort to be a compassionate human being instead of a husk of a person.
Are you Ukrainian, or biting my head off for no reason?
Do you often go to foreign countries to piss on their culture or only when its convenient?
Russian is the second most commonly spoken language in Ukraine, and your opinion that speaking it is “pissing on their culture” puts you in league with the far right who were doing ethnic cleansing in that country since 2014. Reconsider your opinions.
It’s Zelensky’s first language, even. I think he avoids it now, but if it’s that or English I would hope there’d be no judgement.
Edit: And it shares a lot of vocabulary and ~all grammar with Russian, anyway.
The latter then.
On behalf of my ancestral shtetl there, иди на хуй.
