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.
Probably not Russia or Ukraine because of the war but yeah.
It’s safe in Russia. Safier than in US. But still do not as safe as in Belarus.
Not safe if you’re queer. And there’s a shitton of censorship.
Safety is liberty.
Not safe if you’re queer.
bullshit, I have friends with non-tradicional sexual orientation and gender. All the mess - they do not have right to agitate others to be “non-binary” or something like that. Thats all, they work, live, relax and have relations with other people without any problem with their identity.
And there’s a shitton of censorship.
less than in UK, btw))
Safety is liberty.
What the bloody hell I just read?
Most liberate countries - USA, France - are in the top of the most dangeous places to live.
But Russia - is not safe because of… what?
Cause in Russia you can not kill or rape someone and say “It’s my right to live with my culture! My culture\religion do not punish for that! You can’t blame me for that by your awefull laws”?
Cause you can not change religious rules and just rewrite sacred books to cooperate with modern sjw ideology?
Or what?
Do not believe in shit you massmedia spread along. I’m from Russia and I see how it’s going in my country every f*ckin day.
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ok there dronie
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Are you looking for practicing your Russian?
Are you gonna suggest CS2?
@IHatePepRallies I’d vote for Kazakhstan although the country isn’t completely Russian-speaking but there are no problems getting by.
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.
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The latter then.
On behalf of my ancestral shtetl there, иди на хуй.
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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.
Armenia is perfectly safe as well and everyone speaks Russian there.
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.
Besides Tbilisi Georgia is nice, calm and pleasant. Kazakhstan is mostly a shithole, but if you’re not into interacting with people and enjoy flat steppes with endless views of nothing to the horizon, or beautiful mountains in the south, it’s a nice and calm place too.
I’ve been in Georgia a few years after the 2008 war and it was as safe as it gets. Only the younger people either didn’t speak or didn’t want to speak Russian. After 2022 there was an influx of Russian expats to the country, so the chances of finding someone to talk to should be even higher.
Even aside from the border issues, there’s definitive unrest right now. They’ve been spraying people with straight-up Camite. Definitely not recommendable just based on that.
It’s a shame, they have such an interesting history, and one that goes way way further back than most would guess.
Ah, you’re talking about the anti-government protests which started a year ago after the pro-Russian party took power. That’s a valid point, even though as far as I can see the protests have waned since then. The anniversary event this November was peaceful.
I guess it’s Belarus.
@yogthos@lemmy.ml
France is not russian speaking.
I doubt it’s safe for foreigners.
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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’m queer sadly :(
Then definitely Estonia, or Lithuania. Although I think it’d be much better to live in the non-Russian part and learn Estonian/Lithuanian (and use it) there. I strongly recommend you do that last part especially.
Alternatively, you could go to Slovakia, Russia is a minority official language there, though a lot of hospitals refuse service for transition stuff.
For queer in general, not trans, Estonia still would be the best option.
You could also go to Canada - there aren’t many Russian speakers, but there are small communities. Not enough to warrant a “minority” by a certain tyrant, thankfully. Winnipeg has some of them, I think.
You can also get away with being queer in Yerevan. Not anywhere else in Armenia sadly.
Good catch!
Definitely not good for queer issues. Better than sub-Saharan Africa, I guess, but that’s it. Even the fancy parts of MENA seem easier as that kind of traveler.
None of the above…
