Never heard of Magadan?
Magadan is associated with far far east of Russia. It is associated with cold and people-less places, taiga, beautiful nature and interesting people. Of course this Region is famous for former Soviet GULAGs too.

Vyacheslav Nikonov

If you live somewhere in the “West”, you may often hear or read something bad about Russians. What you hear and read is mostly “something like truth”.  Mostly these “news” are presented in a way, so that they cause bad opinnion about Russia. I personally don’t like it.

Therefore I found the following citation interesting, funny and truth. Vyacheslav Nikonov, a prominent Russian commentator, has quoted his Canadian friend, who came up with the following explanation of Russophobia:

The main problem is that these Russians have white skin. If they had been green, or pink, or came from Mars…or had
flowers sticking out of their ears, then everybody would have said – well, these people are
different, like Turks, or Chinese, or Japanese. We have no questions about the Japanese. They
are different, their civilisation is different. But these Russians … they are white but they have
totally different brains … which is thoroughly suspicious.

Half an our ago Russia defeat Netherlands with 3 to 1! Realy good play!

The game against sweden and today’s game against Netherland had so much dynamic and tension! I hope they willl continue and will reach finale!

Congratulation Russian team, well done!