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Current life in russia ... what they eat how they dress and stuff like that . please help !

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They eat a lot of fish and potatoes. And tons of soup. Russians believe soup once a day is important for good health. Traditional Russian dishes like pelmeni and vereniki (types of dumplings with meat or potatoes inside) with sour cream are popular. They also like cake usually in garish colours and personally, I don't like them, chocolate and sweets. They are big tea drinkers, not so big coffee drinkers (only instant, even in the best restaurants). They also drink a lot of alcohol, mostly beer and vodka. Lots of people smoke, even women but they hide it because it's frowned upon by a lot of people.

Dress sense is similar to the West. Jeans with everything. The only difference is that they like a little bit more sparkle or a pattern on their clothes. A few wear fur but it's a myth that they wear massive fur hats. The women are erm.... glamorous, although I wouldn't say especially beautiful. They certainly make the best of themselves but I wouldn't say they are naturally beautiful. Sorry to upset anyone. The men are for the most part quite unattractive. I'm allowed to say that because my boyfriend is Russian and I love him to death but he aint no George Clooney.

Typical Russian pastimes - sitting in a friend's kitchen chatting, eating, drinking, smoking and listening to music. There's nothing better. Football (soccer) is very popular as is ice hockey. People often go skating and skiing in the winter and the Russian banya (a sauna where you hit each other with birch twigs and then go and roll around in the snow) is an institution. Brilliant fun. Also playing billiards or American pool is popular with younger people these days.

Hey, person below me: I live there, you pillock. I think it because I see it. I live in Siberian Russia with 5 Russian people, including my Russian boyfriend of 2 years. You might be talking about crappy Moscow, which in no way represents real Russia. I bet you've never even been to Siberian Russia or the provinces. My personal opinion is that Russian women are not as naturally beautiful as they are believed to be and hey, I stole my Russian boyfriend from a Russian woman so I must have been more attractive then her. You might be of Slavic descent but there is no way you are a Russian (or Ukrainian) because no Russian would be so needlessly rude. You don't even live in Russia so why don't you (if you even speak the language) 'Pashol na hui'.

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Your answer was very well, but I didnt understand why the cursing at the last paragraph

I thought her answer to be quite good as well.

Katya, mmm... I'm not quite agree with everything you wrote, but the whole picture is like this.
PS Was pleased to read "Poshel na hui" in English. Keep learning Russian and deliver it to world community :)