If you have questions about Russia - come here! (Poll added!)

[Sharu]

PDF said:

Sharu said:

PDF said:

How do you feel about tourists because this picture tells me your not a fan

People in Russia are friendly to foreigners. Pictures you show have an unknown origin and methodics so put it into trash can. (also if you remember all the trash talking on Sochi olympics from Western media - its nothing strange.)
Its 2 big tourist places in Russia - Moscow and Sankt Peterburg. They have all the necessary infrastructure, so shouldn't be any problems for tourists. The rest of Russia is a Terra Incognita for foreigners. 
Well in fact there is some elite tourism which is not a part of a big picture: for example, mr Eric Clapton was fishing on salmon rivers on Kola Peninsula, and was quite happy with it. ;)

It came from this very thorough report http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_TT_Competitiveness_Report_2013.pdf

but the map is only made up of one part of that report.  A section where they surveyed 140 countries and simple asked the question "How welcome are foreign visitors in your country?"

So its just bad jourmalism, and not a sociology at all, ok. )) Real surveys are NOT made this way.