EnglishRussia is a blog, which is about Russia and depends on user contribution as well as their staff, submitting mostly photos to their blog.
Englishrussia's view of Russia is not so beautiful as this
What is EnglishRussia?
The website EnglishRussia or rather is a blog that gets about 200,000 visitors a day. From the name and the visits you would think that it would be in depth reporting about Russia for the English speaking world.
This is the opposite of what this blog is about. It is basically not about European Russia or the Russian language. Nor is it about how to learn Russian.
EnglishRussia.com is simply a site with a lot of photos about Russia, but they take a negative view as manifest my their photos and videos.
Why this Russian site is lame
Nothing succeeds like success ( or in that blog’s case controversy), therefore, you might say, english–russia can not be all that bad. And it is true there is some value to this site, maybe some unusual photos and it shows another side or Russia. However, I am Slavic and live in Europe and if someone showed my country in a negative way just to get traffic on their blog I would not like it.
However, it is a slow loading site with extra large photos of Russia and nothing is in depth. The photos are just negative eye candy about Russia. The only reason it get traffic is they have many people from other blogs somehow pointing to their English/Russia blog. I think negative images stir emotional response. But I think really what makes EnglishRussia so lame is it just picks up things from Russian websites. “There is nothing new on it. There’s nothing original,” said Mikhail Chekanov of the large search portal rambler.ru It is boring.
My views only echos Mikhail Chekanov about this blog.
Better English blogs about European Russia Moscow etc.
To be honest I guess the main reason my personal opinion about English-Russia is not high, is not because it boring or slow loading, but this blog portrays the Russian people in a negative light.
The site only shows to the English speaking world the worst side of Russia. I do not know if it is the person’s personal opinion or they just want to make money by showing something controversial. The owner my be a success in life, but I think it is not a balanced or fair representation. I some times am critical of Russian politics and Putin, but not the Russians. So if you want to learn about Russia there are more positive blogs out there. The Russians are great people. The nation of Russia is a powerful intellectually and what they have to offer the world. I do not like when any person or website puts down a nation or group of people, European or Asia or where ever.
EnglishRussia blog could show more traditional and postive aspects of Russian culture.
I think the best thing to do about such sites is basically ignore them and find more interesting blogs that will lift up your spirit.
That is my opinion about englishrussia.com.
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