If their nights are as LONG as their days during the winter, and they are, I can EASILY understand why they drink. DEPRESSING to live in the dark for so long.
I never saw so many drunks (all men) in my LIFE as I saw in Finland, Suomi, as they call their own country.
>>>>Besides, the Russians are BROKE. My husband and I visited Russia for a few weeks in 2008. It was a poor, sad place.<<<<
I know many ignorant Canadians who only visited US and Mexico and they think that Mexico is superior and United States is a fraud and a real 3rd world hellhole (people from BC who drove to Detroit and Flint).
The fact is Russia about as diverse as United States.