third party vote is more of an explicit fuck you than not voting. if you don't vote, they can just say "lol they wouldn't have voted anyway!!!"
third party vote is more of an explicit fuck you than not voting. if you don't vote, they can just say "lol they wouldn't have voted anyway!!!"
i lived in volgograd for a summer and got a masters degree in russian studies. i found it depressing. the food was quite bad, the people are nice, but odd, and i felt everything was overcommercialized, which is strange to say, coming from the us. i went to a karaoke night with some friends and felt like a celebrity since it was mostly english songs. some drunk guy pulled me aside and said if i ever need a podiatrist to give him a call lol.
my impression is that a lot of the men i knew were overly macho and annoying and a lot of the women were very superficial. of course, the country isn't a monolith. I visited SPB and Moscow and had very different impressions than volgograd, but i didn't spend enough time in either place to feel authoritative. A friend from my program lived in Siberia for an extended period of time (like a year or two from what I remember) and he apparently had a blast. The Far East has the same kind of mentality as the American West, people are much more individualistic and anti-government / authority, for better or worse. I still want to travel across the Transiberian Railroad one day, but idk, i think it would get tedious pretty fast