If Russia needs the resources to fund the war in Ukraine, why doesn’t it throw open its doors to visa free western tourism? Enough people would be interested, & it would start to get some hard currency as €, CHF, £, SEK, $, JPY in the tills at shops.
Last Updated: 26.06.2025 10:17

(Which rather explains something else)…
I can just see us westerners; all fighting each-other to get to the front of the queue…
Yeah, right…
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No-one in their right minds would ever, willingly visit Russia!
Cheers!
Or; more likely, fighting each-other - trying to push someone-else (anyone-else) ahead of ourselves.
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(…and the Russians are paranoid that we in the west want to “INVADE” them!!!… Yeah, right… >In their bloody dreams<)!
Carson, Segal, Musk, Trump… (add to the list as applicable)…