Russians ordered to leave Sri Lanka within two weeks.

Yeah, that place out 'there'. Anything not really Cambodia related should go here.
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Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, my online teaching business has found many new customers with young students whose families have fled Russia/Ukraine and found refuge in various EU countries. Mostly learning Science from me, but also Geography. I always find Russian and Ukrainian students to be very technically-aware and study hard, (unlike many of my lazy Chinese students!!)
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simon43 wrote:Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, my online teaching business has found many new customers with young students whose families have fled Russia/Ukraine and found refuge in various EU countries. Mostly learning Science from me, but also Geography. I always find Russian and Ukrainian students to be very technically-aware and study hard, (unlike many of my lazy Chinese students!!)
Mainland Chinese students are just recovering from the hazing ritual known as the Chinese educational system. Even in the hospitals, in the study rooms, they study with an IV in one hand, pencil in another.

After escaping that hell, Chinese students probably want to just play, enjoy life, and just be kids and normal human beings.
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A few tens of thousands of Russians would certainly change the expat scene in Cambodia...
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Felgerkarb wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:46 pm A few tens of thousands of Russians would certainly change the expat scene in Cambodia...
They tried that already, back in the days of the dueling Russians and Turks down in Kampong Som. I'm sure they could still make an impact but not in quite the same way. They should be allowed to stay anyway so long as they comply with local laws and pay their own way. They are refugees too.
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The Russians are coming, or going. Have read of quite a few numbers in Eastern Europe. Vacation or War-evasion. Putin made a statement that 'they' will be hunted down for their dis-service.

Where are these Russians going to eventually land. It may well be like the Vietnam War when Americans fled to Canada and becoming Stateless.
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HaifongWangchuck wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:04 pm
ItWasntMe wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:02 pm
HaifongWangchuck wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:58 pm
ItWasntMe wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:58 pm
HaifongWangchuck wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 5:56 pm

Russia has never had a history of a colonial empire that politically and legally subjugated other races in the way European empires in Africa or Asia did: Every ethnic group in the Imperial Russian Empire was incoporated as part of the nation and given citizenship (which admittingly had extremely limited rights, but they were politically equal to ethnic Russians nonetheless), so this isn't really a mindset of the Russian people because they don't view other races with the same exoticism and mystique as say, the British guy who fetishes the whole pith-helmet experience (also why I'd say Russians are so open to dating interracially, between the Russian historical experience and the Soviet experiment at creating a New Socialist Man).
Bro that is funny, so how much they pay you per post?
You don't actually have any valid response I'll assume, so you resort to insinuation as a means of fallacious distraction. Good game, Shlomo. Good game
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Go to the frontline where you can be of more use.
I gave you a meaningful response to your post, and all you do is respond with trolling. Believe it or not, people can hold an opinion different than you and not work for a foreign government that is adversarial to yours (funny enough, another poster just accused me of being Chinese today on the same criteria).

Why do people like you struggle so much with the idea that there are those out there who think that everything you fundamentally believe in and were taught since the tit is wrong? Are all those billions of us getting cut paycheques?
How on earth would you be able to know everything an individual (let alone a group) believes in and has been taught their whole life? Based on a few internet comments? Reducing people and places down to pithy epithets based on one's limited personal experience takes far less energy than addressing the real complexity of each in a patient, rational way.

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Just over 288,000 Russians and nearly 20,000 Ukrainians have traveled to Sri Lanka in the last two years since the war began, according to official data.
Could anyone take a moment and read this carefully? This is the total amount of Russians (and Ukrainians) within 2 years. This doesn't mean, that there are RIGHT NOW 288.000 Russians in Sri Lanka. I think (assume!) this number is simply the amount of issued (tourist) visas, which means the same person might count multiple times. Then don't forget, that a lot of them might have already left and went somewhere else
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stevenjb wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 1:42 am The Russians are coming, or going. Have read of quite a few numbers in Eastern Europe. Vacation or War-evasion. Putin made a statement that 'they' will be hunted down for their dis-service.

Where are these Russians going to eventually land. It may well be like the Vietnam War when Americans fled to Canada and becoming Stateless.
fleeing Americans in the 60's became Canadians!
wish i had gone that route as a few friends did
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Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:33 pm Sri Lanka ends visas for hundreds of thousands of Russians staying there to avoid war

Investigation launched into order asking Russians to leave country amid blacklash over ‘whites only policy’

by Shweta Sharma
28/02/24

...thousands of Russians and a smaller number of Ukrainians staying in the country for an extended period of time and even setting up their own restaurants and nightclubs

It comes amid a furious social media backlash over Russian-run businesses with a “whites only” policy that strictly bars locals
. These businesses include bars, restaurants, water sports and vehicle hiring services...
Curiously none of you noticed, or chose not to highlight, one of the main reasons for their expulsion... Forbidding locals to patronize their establishments. ...that is very bad form. Reveals the true bully-hayseed side of Ruski-dom...

Russians also formerly got in trouble at Otres over the same thing: there was even a dustup or two after they forbade entry to some Cambodian visitors to a nightclub on Otres beach called "Last Hippie Standing"...

So, I am all in favour of Sri Lanka giving the Ruskis the boot. Like too many of the insular Chinese, a lot of them are very poor at mixing with others who are not also from Russia or who don't speak Russian, etc...
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orichá wrote: Thu Feb 29, 2024 11:37 am
Kung-fu Hillbilly wrote: Wed Feb 28, 2024 12:33 pm Sri Lanka ends visas for hundreds of thousands of Russians staying there to avoid war

Investigation launched into order asking Russians to leave country amid blacklash over ‘whites only policy’

by Shweta Sharma
28/02/24

...thousands of Russians and a smaller number of Ukrainians staying in the country for an extended period of time and even setting up their own restaurants and nightclubs

It comes amid a furious social media backlash over Russian-run businesses with a “whites only” policy that strictly bars locals
. These businesses include bars, restaurants, water sports and vehicle hiring services...
Curiously none of you noticed, or chose not to highlight, one of the main reasons for their expulsion... Forbidding locals to patronize their establishments. ...that is very bad form. Reveals the true bully-hayseed side of Ruski-dom...

Russians also formerly got in trouble at Otres over the same thing: there was even a dustup or two after they forbade entry to some Cambodian visitors to a nightclub on Otres beach called "Last Hippie Standing"...

So, I am all in favour of Sri Lanka giving the Ruskis the boot. Like too many of the insular Chinese, a lot of them are very poor at mixing with others who are not also from Russia or who don't speak Russian, etc...
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One of the Ruskies was a police officer from memory, he mixed in pretty well!
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