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Article: No place like home; Russia's travellers.(Russian travel more than ever but still prefer their own country)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 6, 2005
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Steamed up: Russia in Turkey
Russians' familiarity with other places breeds no contempt for their homeland
"BECAUSE Rimini is Russian," says the woman at the car-hire desk at Rimini airport, when asked why she speaks Russian so well. A week later, the mainly female passengers of your correspondent's charter flight from Moscow are back, tanned, wearing even less, and lugging improbably sized holdalls stuffed with Italian handbags and apparel.
Before the Soviet Union collapsed, travel beyond its borders was a luxury reserved for a privileged governmental caste. Many Russians still recall the fear and exhilaration of their first foreign jaunts and ...