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...
...

Yobbo wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:31 pm

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...
...

One of the Ruskies was a police officer from memory, he mixed in pretty well!

YaTingPom wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:43 pm
Was the Last Hippie Standing a Russian joint? Pretty sure it was European, French actually.
Anyway, there was one report of it on FB, or online, and that was it. No blanket ban. I don't remember seeing reports of any dust up.

Felgerkarb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:46 pm A few tens of thousands of Russians would certainly change the expat scene in Cambodia...

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).

HaifongWangchuck wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:39 pm

Felgerkarb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:46 pm A few tens of thousands of Russians would certainly change the expat scene in Cambodia...

It's happened before. KPS used to be filled with so many Russians that their stores and businesses were all over town, and it even led to some rivalry between a billionaire and another well-connected Russian (though judging by his name, I believe was an ethnic Ukrainian) with Khmer citizenship and his son, which all ended quite dramatically. Since then, there are still a few Russians in Sihanoukville, most of whom seem to blend in pretty well, marrying locals and speaking Khmer, but it's not anywhere like what it was about 10 or even 5 years ago.

Felgerkarb wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:15 am

HaifongWangchuck wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:39 pm

Felgerkarb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:46 pm A few tens of thousands of Russians would certainly change the expat scene in Cambodia...

It's happened before. KPS used to be filled with so many Russians that their stores and businesses were all over town, and it even led to some rivalry between a billionaire and another well-connected Russian (though judging by his name, I believe was an ethnic Ukrainian) with Khmer citizenship and his son, which all ended quite dramatically. Since then, there are still a few Russians in Sihanoukville, most of whom seem to blend in pretty well, marrying locals and speaking Khmer, but it's not anywhere like what it was about 10 or even 5 years ago.

I was quite familiar with that...I was a regular for a fair while at The Snake Pit in KPS. Had a bit of a relationship with some rather, colorful, Russians in those days.

YaTingPom wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:45 am

Felgerkarb wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 6:15 am

HaifongWangchuck wrote: ↑Thu Feb 29, 2024 7:39 pm

Felgerkarb wrote: ↑Wed Feb 28, 2024 11:46 pm A few tens of thousands of Russians would certainly change the expat scene in Cambodia...

It's happened before. KPS used to be filled with so many Russians that their stores and businesses were all over town, and it even led to some rivalry between a billionaire and another well-connected Russian (though judging by his name, I believe was an ethnic Ukrainian) with Khmer citizenship and his son, which all ended quite dramatically. Since then, there are still a few Russians in Sihanoukville, most of whom seem to blend in pretty well, marrying locals and speaking Khmer, but it's not anywhere like what it was about 10 or even 5 years ago.

I was quite familiar with that...I was a regular for a fair while at The Snake Pit in KPS. Had a bit of a relationship with some rather, colorful, Russians in those days.

Wasn't it called the Snake House?