r/nottheonion • u/Jessicas_skirt • 1d ago

Moscow Says Europe Is ‘Shooting Itself in Foot’ With Russian Tourist Ban

https://easternherald.com/2026/08/30/russia-europe-tourist-flows-schengen-visa-restrictions-moscow/
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u/Chaotic_Attack 17h ago

It’s almost like Russian government doesn’t represent its people

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u/Levstr1 8h ago

As a Russian, this is absolutely true, it does not reflect the interests of its people in any way, it rather acts to benefit from it as someone else's government.

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u/flooberoo 3h ago

Yet polls (even independent ones) show that the government does represent its people.

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u/Chaotic_Attack 3h ago

Oh yeah, political polls in a country where you get arrested for holding a blank sheet, I’m 100% sure they accurately represent the public’s opinion

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u/invinci 16h ago

It very much does, the oligarchs is a different matter, they are used to the freedom of being rich. 

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u/TopTopTopcinaa 13h ago

So Trump represents all Americans?

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u/invinci 5h ago

He represents American, so kinda. But the support from the Russian people to putin is insanely high, they have been throughly brainwashed.