Also note that some maps distort Russia's size. One may think Russia is bigger than Africa, when in fact Africa is almost double the size and can fit in the whole country.

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that’s because of Mercator projection. Land closer to the Earth’s poles looks bigger than it really is, and land further from the poles looks smaller than it really is.

@Weissenschenkel

2 жыл бұрын

Unfortunately you can't draw a sphere in a plain without having any distortion.

@andrewhuang818

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel The land shouldn't be smaller but true size at the equator.

I have been watching Ellie in Russia. She has been going to a lot of these areas to talk to the locals. It has opened my eyes to the vastness and richness of Russia. I was pleased to watch your video as it is a wonderful overview.

After watching this video, I am highly interested in learning more about that small desert surrounded by much colder regions. I think a very interesting part of Russia is Lake Baikal, a very large freshwater lake that has more water than all the 5 Great Lakes of the US and Canada combined, with it's own freshwater seal and giant shrimp

@dvchel

2 жыл бұрын

Lake Baikal is also the deepest lake in the world, standing at more than 1400 meters.

10:26 Wont agree here ; This video didnt give me "a bit of an idea", rather this video was the best informative video about Russia I've ever watched !!! Perfectly summarized, brilliant work

@smalls5001

2 жыл бұрын

nouu ja ga niet overdrijven maar t is wel hal aar

The Chara Sands really blew my mind. It was an awesome video all in all

Great vid, Paul! One point to add - Russia once possessed Alaska but sold it in 19 century if I am not mistaken.

OK, I'm not going to talk about politics. I've spent the 2008's Summer in St. Petersburg, having a Russian language course in the State University. Russian people are cold and straightforward when they don't know you, but once they consider you as a friend, you have a friend for your entire life! Saint Petersburg is often called the North's Venice but actually it looks like Amsterdam since the city was built upon several Dutch architecture's blueprints. The city was a swamp and Peter the Great was doing an effort to open Russia to the West. Moscow is a great city, but cannot beat St. Peter. Sorry but not sorry. lol Thank you for Sharing, Paul!

@Antti-ox1ho

2 жыл бұрын

I'd like to visit St. Petersburg in the future ans test my Russian language skills there. I have almost visited St. Petersburg in June of 2013, when I, my dad and some relatives from my dad's side visited Zelenogorsk, which located near of St. Petersburg. It called Terijoki in Finnish. My grandmother from my dad's side is originally from a small place called Sosnovo (Rautu in Finnish), which located just on the Finnish-Russian border before the winter war. Her family escaped from Rautu/Sosnovo to other parts of Finland when Soviet Union gets Karelia from Finland in the of winter war. Greetings from Finland! Terveisiä Suomesta!

@Weissenschenkel

2 жыл бұрын

@@Antti-ox1ho I always regret not spending a weekend in Helsinki, it was very close from Peter (2 hours by car.) I don't speak a thing in Finnish but the few people I know from there are awesome. Iukka was a guy from sowhere near Helsinki, Laura and Suvi from the capital. Laura even spent her New Year in my place in 2016 while she was on tour in Brazil. I miss these people so bad! Saudações do Brasil!

@siegfried487

Жыл бұрын

Well we Ukrainians also thought Russians were our friends. And then they came to kill us.

Thanks for a great video, Paul! You've managed to squeeze a lot of info in a 10 min video. It's really interesting for me as a russian to have a look at our culture from the oint of view of a foreigner. Btw, russian empire actually does have a major influence on our culture today. Like we still have a dispute wether we should modernize the way the rest of Europe did it, or we should follow our own way we have yet to discover/further develop

This channel is great and deserves more attention. Paul, you're really good at expressing how complex a country or language while giving people great pointers to continue researching these topics on their own.

Really really liked the culture sections!!! Must be fascinating to get to know the deep interior of Russia, with its diverse ethnic minorities

@dvchel

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. You should look up Tuvan Throat Singing. It's kinda like the Mongolian one, but different, due to the distinct Tuvan identity of the Tuvan people living in the Tuvan Republic. South-East of the country near the Mongolian border.

even though I'm russian, I still learned some things about my country!

The first known capital of Rus' wasn't Novgorod, it was Ladoga. Btw, a lot of people think of Russia as of country of everlasting winter and polar bears which is not true: despite the fact that a huge portion of its territory considered sub-arctic and arctic, the southernmost point is located in subtropics including Sochi

@PainterVierax

2 жыл бұрын

subtropics is a controversial term. Instead we can say there is parts of southern Russia along the Black Sea and Caspian Sea that have a subtropical climate.

@user-yu9sd5nq3l

2 жыл бұрын

@@PainterVierax there are parts of southern Russia that have a hell climate with temperatures down to -30C in winter, up to +45 in summer, and with wind up to 25 m/s (excluding coastal regions) in spring and autumn

@PainterVierax

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-yu9sd5nq3l and they also are "located in subtropics" according to some definitions, which is why it's more advisable to use the term "subtropical climate" instead.

@user-yu9sd5nq3l

2 жыл бұрын

@@PainterVierax nope, not subtropics. this is what we call a temperate climate zone. 400+ km to the north

@user-yu9sd5nq3l

2 жыл бұрын

@@PainterVierax you see, i'm not talking about the climate, only about zones

Very nicely done.

Quite an informative video aboud the country profile, geography, languages and cultural background. Thanks to the creator.

what?? i never knew paul had a separate geography channel lol. i literally discovered it right now in my feed

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

The feed does its job on occasion!

Great video!

Another great video Paul. What amazed me most was the on topic courtesy of the comments, a pleasant surprise. You have a fine channel here 😎

Enjoyed your video

Would be cool to hear a word or two about the music in this context Both modern and traditional/folk

@notnicenicholas

2 жыл бұрын

Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff. So many greats came out of Russia.

@bluecoldarcticicicle3806

2 жыл бұрын

Otava Yo (Отава Ё) is a good folk band I would recommend

Gran vídeo, y muy de actualidad 👍

Great job!!!

Good job, Paul, it can't have been easy to summarise such a large country in few minutes. I realise how little we know about the non-Russian inhabitants of Russia, each group with its specific culture and language. We also know very little about the geography of the lands they inhabit despite their making up a massive chunk of Earth's landmass.

@sodinc

2 жыл бұрын

Who are "we"?

@dvchel

2 жыл бұрын

@@sodinc Americans and Europeans etc?

@sodinc

2 жыл бұрын

@@dvchel majority of these "non-russian inhabitants of Russia" are europeans and I'm pretty sure they know about themselves. I guess "native English speakers" would work better.

Great video! I studied a lot about the USSR/Russia both at school in my country and by myself, and I traveled there too, and I think this video succeeds in covering the basics of such a huge country in a very limited time. Well done! If I can just correct one thing that I believe isn't Paul's mistake though, it's the map shown @5:36 that appears slightly mistaken: it's South Yemen (or People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, capital Aden - 1967-1990) that was communist, not North Yemen (the Yemen Arab Republic, capital Sana'a -1962-1990), that was conservative. Although other Arab countries had ties to the USSR, it was known as the only communist Arab country during the Cold War.

Have a nice ... day, Paul!

A trip through this country sounds amazing but the language is a huge barrier.

Excellent video for KZread!

I was planning to visit Russia next summer. My best friend and I wanted to take the Transiberian. I am even studying Russian. But I have lived in Kyiv, Ukraine, for long time and my husband is Ukrainian. So I don’t think I will want to visit Russia soon. What a pity. I’ll just watch the videos about it and hope that it will get a better, peaceful governments.

@bartholomewtott3812

2 жыл бұрын

There's only one aggressor in this equation.

@Nasengold

2 жыл бұрын

Just go anyway?! Politics have no real impact on real people.

@cocaiitaliano816

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nasengold well, 1st of all is very unlikely that they will give me a visa, 2nd I'd prefer not spent my money in a country that bombs another country.

@timakornniranrai7457

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nasengold politics have real impact on people if not there wouldn't be any war in this world

@goatgamer001

Жыл бұрын

@@Nasengold would you go to a country with war anyway?

I am fascinated by Yakutia. Very nice that you mentioned it.

I've always been interested in visiting the Kamchatka region / peninsula. I love volcanos, the Pacific Ocean, sparsely populated areas in general and the overall environment there. Another interesting place would be the Caucasus region especially Chechnya.

lnteresting video, and not just for the fact that there were no ads! l liked the fair disclaimer in the beginning! The name "Russia" stems from the Norse, or Swedish, ruler Rurik, a common Swedish name still today; "Ruriks land, in Swedish, became today's Ryssland, the Swedish name for Russia. What interests me most about Russia is the Finno-Ugric peoples that still inhabit many out-of-the-way regions of Russia; the National Museum in Helsinki, Finland, has a large, fascinating hall dedicated to the "other" Finnic peoples.

The most fascinating is about that sandy desert you talked about. Love for Tatars Bashkirs Circassians and Chichens from Algeria

This is the type of country that would demand you to create a specific channel to cover (deeply) all their land and people, but this was a very good overview focusing on the country from east to west, isn't something we are used to in other scenarios having around 70% of Russians only in the european part. Answering the question, I didn't know they had that big % of muslim people, in a so diversed country that's a lot, so as the number of people that should be like 14 million, more than several arab countries.

@ediskuko5947

2 жыл бұрын

Well, the biggest mosque (by capacity) in Europe is - in Moscow. :-)

8:15 This marked region here falls to The Pontic-Caspian steppe, and mostly consists of black soil lands. Its indeed one of the most fertile geographies in the world

Thank you for this video, it was very informative. Some day I want to visit the ancestral homelands of my wife, whose family had to flee from a genocide by the Russians in the 19th century. These homelands are still a part of the Russian Federation, but her family is not Slavonic but indigenous. In any case, some small mistakes I noticed in the video: 1. when talking about the densely populated areas near the seas, the arrows are at the Caspian and Black Sea, not the Caspian and Baltic Sea. 2. the preferred name for Russia's largest minority is "Tatar", not "Tartar". They have nothing to do with Tartarus. 3. Crimea is not part of Russia but of Ukraine. What was new to me is that the church revival is actually that strong, I had thought there would be more atheists after 1991.

I'm Russian and I'm proud of that but ashamed that THEY are Russians

@ankokunokayoubi

2 жыл бұрын

who are 'they' you refer to?

@xXxSkyViperxXx

2 жыл бұрын

@Richdragon wat? who? huh?

@wheeliebeast7679

2 жыл бұрын

Vagimir Puto et al

excellent Psul. Russia is old friend of India, and true one. We love it but it should not attack its neighbours. Peace

I always thought “Siberia” was a really stupid name for a region as big as it is. Like the Sibir Khanate it’s named for is as far west from Chukcha as you can get while still being in Asia. It really fits the “we steamrolled east extremely fast and don’t care about describing this with much specificity” feeling. Note there was a revolution in 1905 and 2 revolutions in 1917. The pre-USSR post-Revolution years might have been interesting to touch on since on paper a few regions were supposed to be mostly independent (Ukraine, Belarus, Transcaucasia, etc) but confederated until they were centralized in the direction Stalin took the Union.

@user-dl1zx9sr4q

2 жыл бұрын

Well, calling everything east of the Urals Siberia is typical for foreigners. In Russia, this zone is divided into three large zones - the Urals, Siberia, and the Far East. Well, there are smaller zones, which, although they belong geographically or administratively to these three, do not include themselves among them, such as the Zauralie or Altai.

@CraftsmanOfAwsomenes

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-dl1zx9sr4q Thanks. I knew the region was described with more specific terminology in Russia, but I didn't want to speak without hearing it from someone who knows better.

@sampejke

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-dl1zx9sr4q yes, but ural and the far east are still the part of Siberia. if we go independent, we will choose this name for the region and moscow can continue harassing ukraine, but without all them lands behind the Ural mountains

@user-gh6lt5tu8w

Жыл бұрын

@@sampejke Siberian identity is pretty non-existent in the Far East. Far Eastern identity too, as it is more common for people to identify with country, city or official region, probably like in most of Russia

For the whole time watching this video I thought I was watching the geo guy (who has a 20 min video about every single country) until the end where he said "thank you for watching and have a nice day" then I was like OMG IT IS THE LANGFOCUS GUY NOT THE GEO GUY hahha

@GEOfocusChannel

Жыл бұрын

Well, I’m the GEOfocus guy, just not some other GEO guy. 😄

Here's something I learned from a native Yakut here on KZread, Kiun B: In Yakutsk, the capital of Yakutia, during the summers it can get up to around 30 degrees Celcius, and in the winters, down to -70 degrees Celcius. That's *100* degrees Celcius difference - all in the *same place*! Pretty crazy in my opinion. It's thanks to the unique geography of the area - there are mountains all around that trap heat in during the summer, and prevent heat from coming in during the winter. For anyone interested in Yakutsk/Yakutia, I recommend her channel.

@sampejke

2 жыл бұрын

actually no. Yakutsk has never experinced such temperatures. -62 that was the minimum a few decades ago. now it is rarely colder than -50. -70 temperatures was in Oymyakon and Verkhoyansk, they are very far away from Yakutsk and also such low temperatures happened a few decades ago. -60 is what u can expect in the coldest day in Oymyakon and no, there are no mountains around Yakutsk. there are some hills, but they don't have any impact on the low temperatures, u can climb them hills and ride 10-100 km away and it will be still the same temperature. these hills have impact on winter fog, that's true. Yakutsk is often foggy, when temperature goes down -40, u climb the hills - no fog, the sky is clear, the sun is shining (still cold asfck) if u mean the Verkhoyansk mountains, which are 500 kms to the east of Yakutsk.. well there is no heat coming from the east, that region is even colder in Winter as I already mentiioned, and it is still warm in summer, it is +23 now in Oymyakon. about summers. it can get up to +35, that happens almost every summer, +25 is what u can expect most of the summer time hehe, from Yakutia with love tho! U had some wrong information, but thank u for the interest in our cold region!

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The desert with no transition zones next to it is a real mystery to me.

As Russian, I know so little about ethnic minorities living in Russia. I want to notice: “Plyaska” is just a word that mining dance, not certain type of dance

I've read in several places that Russia have between 11 and 14 time zones?. depending on who you ask. Also the faberge eggs?

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

I've never heard 14 before.

@eddygonzalez6018

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel Yes that was odd when I read it somewhere on the internet. Perhaps thay were including some other territories. I know there is only so much you can cover about Russia, which It does have a most interesting past. Thank you for staying off politics.

@ediskuko5947

2 жыл бұрын

Russia has 11 time zones (USSR had 12). I picked up somewhere that there are intentions by government to cut this down to nine, but it should get checked out.

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

@@ediskuko5947 Yeah, I think they've been talking about that for years, but it hasn't been changed yet.

@SantiagoGonzalez-sl5lj

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, Fabergé eggs were made in Russia, they were created as gifts for royal familiy members before the revolution

You gave a little misinformation. Rus broke up before the Mongol invasion. The collapse was caused by the inner conflicts of the ruling dynasty

@user-dl1zx9sr4q

2 жыл бұрын

I'm surprised that Novgorod Rus is mentioned here at all. Foreigners usually forget about it when they say that Rus came from Kievan Rus. In practice, the terms Kievan Rus or Novgorod Rus are simply a designation of the time periods of the existence of one state - Rus. And there were 4 such periods - Novgorod Rus, Kyivan Rus, Vladimir Rus, and Moscow Rus. And yes - the Mongols never attacked Kievan Rus because by that time the period of Kievan Rus had ended and the period of feudal fragmentation began, which is called Vladimir Rus because the Vladimir-Suzdal principality becomes the center.

@dvv18

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-dl1zx9sr4q Not exactly. Rus was still a "multi-polar" conglomerate of Rurikid principalities by the time of the Mongol invasion. The most prominent ones were Vladimir in the northeast and Galich (Halych) in the southwest still vying for the control of the traditional and symbolic center of the dynasty - the city of Kiyev (except that neither of them bothered much to move the court to Kiyev or even accept the coveted title of the Grand Price of Kiyev when it was under their control - they'd just send a junior prince or even a voivoda to govern the city). And Galich (Galicia-Volhynia) survived the initial Mongol invasion and even grew in size and power as a Mongol vassal under the Rurikid Prince/King Lev Danylovich. And by the time Poland/Lithuania finally dispatched Galicia-Volhynia, the center of what once was the Vladimir principality had been firmly in Moscow already.

@user-dl1zx9sr4q

2 жыл бұрын

@@dvv18 Anyway - the period of Kievan Rus ended at the time of the Mongol Invasion and started the Vladimir Rus time period.

@dvv18

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-dl1zx9sr4q Like I just said - Vladimir wasn't the only or even the most significant part of Rus' between the start of the Mongol invasion and the rise of Moscow. So "Vladimir Rus" is only good as a designation of the specific area (the Northeast) during the specific timeframe (between the rise of Rostov-Suzdal-Vladimir principality in the early 1100s and the rise of Moscow in the early 1300s). And not as a period of the history of "All of Rus".

@user-dl1zx9sr4q

2 жыл бұрын

@@dvv18 It doesn't matter. All these names are conventions. The period is considered from the moment the feudal fragmentation began, and during this period many principalities claimed the title of main. Simply, if we count the times when this or that principality prevailed, then the entire period will be divided into hundreds of small ones, and historians need the entire period, since it is interesting as a chapter of history as a whole. And now, if we take the entire period as a whole and see who was more significant there, it turns out that the Vladimir-Suzdal principality. But when they say Vladimir Rus, they do not mean that Vladimir was the center of all the principalities in this period - this is literally a synonym for the term Period of Feudal Fragmentation.

American literature: I will die for freedom British literature: I will die for my country French literature: I will die for love Russian literature: I will die

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The GEOfocus Channel In order to study the past for this, you must be a decent person

I did not expecto to see desserts in Rusia

I wonder how it looks like

知識を深める内容でした。 日本人としてはロシアには複雑な感情を抱きがちですが、教養は深まりました。

@inoagent3486

2 жыл бұрын

As a Japanise I guess you should hate both Russian an the USA 😎

please do MALAYSIA country 🇲🇾

"Persecuted religion" is a bit exaggerated. The church was separated from the state and was obliged to pay taxes and take care of it's own buildings. Many churches could not afford this, as congregations were very small and were closed down as a result. Then the buildings were either reused for other purposes or demolished. The priests that were persecuted in the early period were persecuted mostly for anti-Soviet government activities, allegiances with the White army or pro-czarist regime, not for being priests. This of course doesn't cancel out the excesses of the brutal revolutionary times. Nowadays the churches are being built "3 per day" in Russia (that's a quote of some official if I'm not mistaken, but if you look at the statistics it's even more than that). Sometimes building a church leads to protests, as the decision comes from high up without consulting the locals (see Yekaterinburg protests). Cause people don't need it, nor want their tax money to be spent on it (construction is also a way to steal some government money). I'd say it's the modern religious revival that's forced, rather than the atheism of Soviet times.

The North American way of saying 'Moss-Cow' for Moscow always sounds weird to me. Here it's 'Mosco' with the emphasis on the first syllable.

@zheka1780

2 жыл бұрын

and in reality it's MO-S-KVA

@PineappleSkip

2 жыл бұрын

@Cycklist Yes, a bit like the Ay-rabs of the Persian Gulf.

what a great country

Eli from Russia (excellent channel )

The one thing I’ve learned about Russia is just how big it is. I’ve learned this in the last few years and never gave it much thought.

Did you delay uploading because you thought there would be strong political comments if you had uploaded earlier?

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

No. We have several months of videos finished and in queue waiting for release. The war started when this video in queue.

A level of cringe ran through me when you said the tiger is in the taiga 😂😂😂😂 But other than that, a nicely made video. Russia is very diverse, and I hope that the remaining ethnic groups can remain distinct cultures for our lifetimes

come back with subtitles

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Are you talking about English subtitles?

@santodiablo_pma

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel yes... spot on

The thing which surprised me about russia is its 35 languages apart from the Russian language .

@sodinc

2 жыл бұрын

Why?

A world within a world! Russia is by far the most incredible country I have ever visited. Hope I can come back soon 🥰

The episode should be at least 20 minutes Russia is huge you barely scratch the surface

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, there's a lot more to say about Russia. These videos are just basic introductions.

@TheRifild

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel i think you did a great job, greetings from Russia

Don't get me wrong, but in fact Russia borders with 15 countries. At Chukchi Peninsula there is a border with United States Alaska.

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

If you include maritime borders. I only counted land borders.

@user-zp9hd8em3t

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel Sure. But the fact is interesting per se.

The one thing I’ve learned about Russia is just how big it is.

Also Russia is famous in classical music.

you could also argue that Russia borders 16 countries because of the georgian breakaway regions of Abakazia and North Ossetia, which russia recognizes

@ivarkich1543

2 жыл бұрын

Russia shares a border also with Lugansk and Donetsk sh***y republics, which was recognozed by one literally three days before the full scale invasion in Ukraine.

@SantiagoGonzalez-sl5lj

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can Argue it, but most countries don't recognize this regions as part of Russia, nor does georgian government, of course

@dvv18

2 жыл бұрын

Abkhazia and _South_ Ossetia. North Ossetia is an uncontested federal subject of the Russian Federation.

@siegfried487

Жыл бұрын

They are not countries, they are regions of Georgia

@frug4681

Жыл бұрын

@@siegfried487 based

5:06 First: The Revolution (1905) in Russia from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy. Although in the context of the video, this is not important. The second: The February Revolution (1917) - the bourgeois revolution that overthrew the tsar. The third: The October Revolution (1917) - socialist, overthrew the provisional government. This is a common mistake, even Tucker Carlson made a mistake.

The disclaimer ar the start of this video shows what kind of a world we live in

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

Well, I think anyone who watches the video will see what it was intended to be. But some people post comments without even watching the video, so I decided to put that disclaimer right at the beginning.

@motazmohammad6130

2 жыл бұрын

I understand that, you won't see disclaimers like this in a video about the USA, which shows the world is biased and hypocrite, and to clear, I am not attacking you, but commening about the people who have double standards.

@xXxSkyViperxXx

2 жыл бұрын

@@motazmohammad6130 its because of the majority type of viewer audience demographics in the viewer statistics, especially in english internet

@lexxiii3

2 жыл бұрын

@@motazmohammad6130 you know that there are times that even TV shows would put a disclaimer especially when it's broadcast around a sensitive event that happened. I think Law and Order: SVU once did it. The Russian invasion is particularly very sensitive so it makes sense Paul making a disclaimer on this video is smart.

@motazmohammad6130

2 жыл бұрын

I understand that, but my point is that Russian invasion is treated differently than other countries war crimes, which is just shows the hypocrisy of the west, no hate on this channel, just my observation on such topics.

What is the purpose of disclaimer? Have you done it also for USA after invasions all over the world?

@GEOfocusChannel

Жыл бұрын

I have never made a video about the USA. If I make one after the USA invades a country, then you can ask me that question.

@JohnSmith-fl5qn

Жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel it should be interesting to make one. Only I am afraid the disclaimers should be longer than the video it self.

@siegfried487

Жыл бұрын

And which country USA occupied? Did they occupy Cuba or Mexico or Canada maybe? And Russia occupied Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.

@JohnSmith-fl5qn

Жыл бұрын

@@siegfried487you forgot Iraq? And why must be occupied? It is not enough the terror the bombs and destruction of countries?

@siegfried487

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnSmith-fl5qn Iraq? Did USA told that Iraq should not exist anymore and its people should forget its language? Common, I live in Ukraine in crimea I know what is happening. USA is not perfect but Russia is totally a terrorist state that now wants to convert all Ukraine to Russia and kill those who do not want it. It is like USA will tell Canadians are Americans, capture Canada and kill everybody who is against it

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I enjoy your both channels but that disclaimer is such a turn off

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

No matter what I do someone will be unhappy about it. 🤷‍♂️

You’ve completely omitted the History of Russian empire

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

I don’t talk about history for history’s sake in these videos. I only include what I think is essential for understanding how the country is what it is today. You could make an entire video series on the Russian Empire, but this is just a ten minute video about the country in general, so I only mentioned the empire for 10 or 20 seconds.

@ArunGoyal2007

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel Thats a big gap.. At least a third should historical perspective. Can't get the b regions and languages right without this.

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

@@ArunGoyal2007 Well, it's KZread. There's room for other people to create new channels with their own format. Everyone wants something a little different, so there's no perfect format I can use that will make everyone happy.

@ArunGoyal2007

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel reply will taken.. I do not wish to detract you from the mission.. Your pieces on Argentina, Brazil and Canada are classics. But do add a bit of the time line.. A disregard for the past is a part of the personality of forward looking relatively new societies like those in the Americas. On the other hand, Europeans and Asians see things a bit differently... Cheers

@goatgamer001

Жыл бұрын

Russian empire is fake. It ended

Wow Russia is super interesting!! It's like a world within the world. So much diversity living peacefully, an example for the rest of the world

@dvchel

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. Hence, with so much diversity living in peace, the situation in Ukraine isn't the consequence of a form of extreme nationalism, but rather as Geofocus explained in a different video, about geopolitics and Russia's acces to warm water and the EU and NATO etc. trying to militarily control the country by wanting it to contain it within its own borders.

Politics aside, I've always wanted to visit Russia. I hope to one day when the war is over.

@congamonga7039

2 жыл бұрын

@Pan-European Why would you go to such a shithole

about its a eursian and border with china and russia

When the Soviet Union existed, it had 11 time zones.

Король и Шут

@solgato5186

2 жыл бұрын

o/~

Tundra it's pronounced with "u"

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure it’s pronounced in two different ways.

@dvv18

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel also pronounces "t", "d", "r", and "a" wrong. "N" is pretty much on point tho 😁

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure I know how to speak English (my native language). I said "tundra" in English. It is a long-established loanword. I don't speak Russian at all, so there's no reason to expect me to sound like a native speaker for other words.

@dvv18

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel Yes, that's exactly the point of my sarcasm. An English word is an English word, even if it's a loanword. There's no need to follow the German tradition and try to mimic the original sound of the word. And for a loanword from Russian, there's not enough cultural or political pressure to do that either.

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

@@dvv18 I see. Sorry, I didn't pick up on the sarcasm. :)

Why Russia became part of Europe?

Russia is Bording 14 countries: Finland, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, China, North Korea, Kaliningrad oblast is bording 2 countries: Poland, Lithuania

@GEOfocusChannel

Жыл бұрын

At least in English, when we say a country "borders" another one, that doesn't include sea borders.

Let see.

My husband was born in Yakutsk. He tells me that as a child he used to play football outside in -50 :)

@GEOfocusChannel

Жыл бұрын

Wow!

Ra-Ra-Rasputin… (ABBA 😅👍)

@dvv18

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, it was the Rolling Stones featuring Thomas Anders.

soviet union

’It has no political intentions" Showing the RF map with Crimea included So that's what you mean.

@GEOfocusChannel

Жыл бұрын

Look at the map again. It's shaded in a different color to show that it is disputed territory (and that is exactly what it is). If you need the source so you can see the key, I can dig it up, but if you look you'll see the different color.

@EFBBBF

Жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel I see, thank you for the explanation. Would you include the whole map of Ukraine as "disputed territory" or just its south-east part if you'd make the video now? --- I've been waiting for reply for this genuine question for 3 days, and now I think it's safe to assume the channel owner is ether a pro-russian shill or just a hypocrite.

I really love your videos, and appreciate your neutrality, most English speaking content creators are biased، and white supremacist, especially when talking about Arab countries.

greetings from Crimean ( ukraine) !!!

@ablorenz

2 жыл бұрын

You are not from Crimea... you are possibly an Asian troll

Russia is a small country. Russia is smaller than Germany or Japan. Hence Russia's population lives in a small apartments in high rise condo and drives small cars with small engines. Russia's most widely used truck KAMAZ is cab over engine design to fit narrow streets of towns in Russia. .

@woefulfisher

2 жыл бұрын

You are schizo, go take some pills

@ablorenz

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

If you count Abkhazia and South Ossetia as countries, Russia borders 16 countries

Why disclaimer? Russian people aren't the ones to blame for decisions of their government. Russia is still a beautiful country.

@GEOfocusChannel

2 жыл бұрын

The disclaimer is for the people who react to videos about Russia without even watching them. I feel no moral obligation to make a disclaimer, but I don't want 1000 people shouting in the comments without knowing the video has nothing to do with the war. The video speaks for itself, but only for people who watch it.

@vodkasherbet8727

2 жыл бұрын

@@GEOfocusChannel this hampers professionalism imo.

russia is a very interesting place, with a very disappointing government.

@artanglin2763

2 жыл бұрын

and very disappointing citizens in general. Believe me.

@inoagent3486

2 жыл бұрын

@@artanglin2763 and not very interesting place overall, believe me 😆😂😂

@WTFizgoingon123

2 жыл бұрын

​@@inoagent3486 but ukraine is, isn't it?

@inoagent3486

2 жыл бұрын

@@WTFizgoingon123 even less

A prison of nations.

@user-ld1cr8fv3s

2 жыл бұрын

"United States" imprisons more people per capita than any other country

@zheka1780

2 жыл бұрын

Ничего, война когда нибудь закончится и через пару поколений снова будут мирно жить

surprised to see that the word “russia” hasn’t been banned yet

@bartholomewtott3812

2 жыл бұрын

It's Russia that bans speech. Such as calling the war in Ukraine a war.

@konplayz

2 жыл бұрын

​@@bartholomewtott3812 thing a is unrelated to thing b

@bartholomewtott3812

2 жыл бұрын

@@konplayz perhaps not in your fucked up head

@solgato5186

2 жыл бұрын

@@bartholomewtott3812 We just banned someone for debunking the Tiananmen "massacre" riots, people were banned for reporting on the invasion/war accurately, or even explaining that "special operation" was the same sort of technical lingo we use in the west for things like the bombing of Somalia that we did on the same day that Russia invaded Ukraine.

@bartholomewtott3812

2 жыл бұрын

@@solgato5186 I don't call genocide and obliteration of entire cities a special operation. You must be on crack if you think Ukrainians are destroying their own cities.

Crimea is temporarily occupied by Russia territory of Ukraine

Я люблю Vladdy Daddy

@zackarylancaster1155

2 жыл бұрын

Ok language simp enjoyer

@manfredneilmann4305

2 жыл бұрын

Ya nye lyublyu ego!!!

>Russian Icons at 7:15 >Written in Ukrainian

As much as Russia is disliked by almost just about the entire world, the Russian people don't deserve any of this. You can't really blame them, it's all on Putin for ruining the entire country to be excluded by the rest of the world. Sorry to bring this up, but that's just sad and I feel the civilians should not face any punishment, only Vladimir Putin. Other than that, Russia is a beautiful country and lots of historical buildings and culture to learn about.

Imperialistic under achievers.

@thegodofthegods1084

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@user-ld1cr8fv3s

2 жыл бұрын

"United States" imperialistic over-achievers, but tick tock

@bartholomewtott3812

2 жыл бұрын

@@user-ld1cr8fv3s I'd rather have McDonalds than the gulag.

@WTFizgoingon123

2 жыл бұрын

​@@bartholomewtott3812 we will have both, lol. btw if you'll check the statistics you'll see that in russia there are way less people in prisons then in most countries of europe and I'm not even talking about usa. and for sure all of them are political prisoners and gays)))

Z

!!!!!!!!!Z!!!!!!!! love from Greece !

@adelinasanchez4752

Жыл бұрын

are you stupid?