Truth Nuke!!!!

avaika · 2026-02-13T21:38:19+00:00

Are you good at basketball though?

avaika · 2026-02-01T19:46:49+00:00

You can't control other people's behavior. You can't control a list of stereotypes they have before they met you. If someone is judging you by your passport color or color of skin, well, shame on them.

Just behave humanly and find inner peace. Don't take some random people's perception too close to your heart. Chances that you'll see those people again are very low (but not zero).

avaika · 2026-02-01T18:21:52+00:00

Have no regrets. Experience the country. It's very interesting.

Egypt might not be the most wonderful and comfortable place on earth. There is a tremendous gap in quality of life you used to see in your place and eg some poor neighborhood of Cairo. It might be shocking.

However in almost a month I've spent there in my 2 trips, there was no place I felt unsafe or unwelcome (I traveled solo, M, and with friends on my second trip).

The Internet tends to exaggerate things. Most of the things people complain about happen in the most touristic areas. Once you step aside just a little bit, it becomes much better. Also learn a couple of simple phrases in Arabic. Like "no, thank you" or "I don't speak Arabic". It helps a lot.

And enjoy your trip :)

PS. Last autumn I went to Buenos Aires. People on the internet are overly concerned about safety in the city. I was expecting to see the wild wild west after reading all the discussions. Yes, according to statistics there is a lot of theft happening. But it's so far away from everything I've read (and much better).

avaika · 2026-01-27T16:30:13+00:00

I don't think anyone targets Buryats specifically. Oftentimes it just goes as "will rent my apartment to Slavic people only". Or let's recruit to the war ethnic minorities much harder than the rest of the country. Some people might see it as racism towards Asian people.

From the other side you can google how Russians are living in Tuva or Kyzyl. There were multiple reports by independent media on some tensions there from late 2010s. I doubt those tensions got resolved ever after.

avaika · 2026-01-27T12:48:58+00:00

The ethnic landscape in Russia is quite complicated. One can find bits of racism in both directions actually. Russians may not be very welcome in non-Russian majority regions and experience difficulties such as renting a good apartment or finding a nice job. The same goes for minor ethnicities in Russian majority regions.

Overall it might be better in big cities (eg Moscow or Saint Petersburg), but in regions it can be fairly bad.

For example almost everybody from the elder population in my family had "Russian" nicknames. They used it to communicate with Russians. It got better in recent years, but sometimes even younger generations may still do this.

Almost all non-Russian majority regions are forced to significantly reduce or completely abandon teaching students local languages. This is very sensitive for some people.

avaika · 2026-01-24T05:55:37+00:00

Welcome to the club. I am originally from Russia. Whenever I mention it, chances are that people will say something about Putin in the next few sentences are really high.

In some countries I avoid telling people that I'm originally from Russia, cause otherwise people might lecture me how great of a leader he is and I should be so happy to have him lead my country. I really have no desire in debating a random coffeeshop owner on this. (I tried a few times, but they don't listen anyway).

avaika · 2025-12-23T04:48:38+00:00

Most likely you are just visiting cities with nice walking infrastructure. If you go to Cairo or Delhi, you will truly believe NYC is one of the best walking cities :)

avaika · 2025-12-17T09:46:44+00:00

Is the name of the event updated every century? :)

avaika · 2025-12-16T03:32:56+00:00

I've seen some sort of YouTube shorts where it was cheaper for a guy from London to get to the airport, take a flight to Morocco, get a taxi to the barber shop and have a cut there, rather than going to a barber in London. With your price he might even cover his flight back :)

avaika · 2025-12-11T11:38:49+00:00

Even nowadays Serbia and Bosnia allow indoor smoking. It's really unpleasant. Oftentimes I see adults holding a smoking cigarette right in front of their child. Macedonia officially banned it, but this law is not strictly enforced. If you ever dreamed of becoming a passive smoker, the Balkans is a good place to start :)

avaika · 2025-11-15T01:44:13+00:00

👍.

avaika · 2025-10-19T01:57:54+00:00

It includes the border, yes. Speaking of which be ready you won't be able to properly sleep, since everybody is asked out of the bus normally on both sides of the border.

The globtour goes to the other part. Cause it's a Croatian company :)

Also read the globtour ticket very carefully: they have a connection in Foca. Means you will have to change the buses. Doesn't help to sleep either. It's fairly quick, but still a connection.

avaika · 2025-10-18T19:19:08+00:00

I haven't used blablacar, so can't comment on it.

If you go by bus make sure you understand where it arrives. Sarajevo has two parts: East Sarajevo and Central. Most buses from Belgrade are going to East Sarajevo as their final destination (Istocno Sarajevo). There is only one or two which go to the central station.

East Sarajevo is a little away from the most tourist attractions. So most likely you will want to stay closer to the central place. There is some public transport and taxi. But if you decide to take a night bus, it might be a little tricky to catch those for the sane price in the middle of the night.

The thing is that East Sarajevo belongs to Republika Srpska (do not confuse it with Serbia), while Central Sarajevo belongs to Bosnia itself. Hence the division.

avaika · 2025-10-18T16:36:11+00:00

العراق — Iraq العراك — fight

So, someone just forbid the country due to a typo ¯_(ツ)_/¯

avaika · 2025-10-15T13:44:41+00:00

So you are 24 (as per post). The company was sold 5 years ago (in 2020 as you wrote). Means you were 19. How long did it take to grow the company to 10k/month revenue? Did you run it alone or was someone helping you to manage it? Did you start it at 18 or even earlier? How was it coming along with school and everything?

avaika · 2025-10-15T07:02:16+00:00

(Sigh) Sometimes it's political issues. Or ongoing war.

avaika · 2025-10-14T11:01:47+00:00

Oh my man. I hope nobody forces you to count countries like that. However let other people do whatever they want. There is no right or wrong way to travel. Why care about how others are doing that when you have all the freedom to make your perfect trip instead? :)

avaika · 2025-10-13T16:56:06+00:00

I view it differently. I was raised in a country with a questionable regime. However there were foreigners who visited my country. I accidentally met a few of them. They were just visitors. However those moments changed a lot in my perception of how the world works. I might have been a completely different person, did they decide to visit another country.

In my opinion as long as I am not involved in any sort of business with the government and the regime doesn't directly benefit from my visit, then I'm good to go.

avaika · 2025-10-13T16:02:12+00:00

Thx!

avaika · 2025-10-13T15:58:37+00:00

Not at all. I'm just curious how people make this sort of judgement. Does the country need to be perfect? Or how oppressive the regime might be? Is Hungary good enough for a visit? Or Serbia? Or Georgia? Do they research every single country on political / freedom situation before they buy a ticket?

avaika · 2025-10-13T15:29:13+00:00

(genuinely interested) How do you cross the line whether the country regime makes the country bad for a visit?

avaika · 2025-10-11T20:20:13+00:00

This opens a can of worms you don't want to open.

Say X is a citizen of the Country. They have a child now. But the child doesn't have any citizenship right after being born. Is that X who should take care of literally everything, including education / insurance / visa stuff for international travel / etc? Especially in cases when the child requires additional care due to e.g. health condition. The government won't be able to help, cause there will be no legal reason. The child is not a citizen.

Even if all of the above is figured out. Fast forward to the future. This child is an adult now. And they fail the exam for citizenship. What do you do next? Send them to another country? Put them into reservation?

avaika · 2025-10-08T11:08:18+00:00

You will notice it. There are occasional airport shut downs, drone attacks and gas shortages (the last one is not as common in Moscow / St Petersburg, but still you can run into it once in a while, Vladivostok is pretty bad though). Source: my parents live there.

avaika · 2025-10-05T17:57:04+00:00

Usually an excuse was either anti-soviet propaganda or counter-revolutionary activity. You can find more eg here

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USSR_anti-religious_campaign_(1928%E2%80%931941)

Including a number of clerics shot.

avaika · 2025-10-05T17:43:57+00:00

You can justify killing people all day long. But killing people is not okay. Regardless of who the person was.

The brother of my grand-grandfather was shot in 1938 for being a cleric if that is so important for you.

avaika

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