Beautiful places in Russia

[Olika]

Fog over Vladivostok city

[Lisa]

Winter War. 1939. Soviet aggression. And apart from tobacco I don't smoke.

Vyborg was donated by Emperor Alexander Principality of Finland, when Finland became a part of the Empire. Russian Karelia another territory.
Your pictures make it difficult to browse pages, resize your images

[The Lawspeaker]

I mainly rely on wikipedia pictures and unfortunately those are larger. Well.. see the good side of it: you will never have to look hard for background pictures for your computer again.

[Onychodus]

It's Finnish land. Apart from that Russia is a beautiful country. Definitely worthy a visit one day but I will insist on getting a Finnish stamp on my passport when visiting Karjala.

Does Finland want imposing Slavic minority within its borders?

[The Lawspeaker]

Does Finland want imposing Slavic minority within its borders?

Well it's a Finnish problem then but they should repatriate them to Russia. The Karelians themselves are a different issue. What should be done when the Finns regain Karelia is that Europe together pays for new towns and villages in Russia itself. Somewhere between Saint Petersburg, Moscow and the north.

The same should be done for "Soviet" (because they brought in more then just Russians) minorities in the Baltic and East Prussia because that should be returned to Germany.

[Onychodus]

they should repatriate them to Russia

they and their ancestors lived there for centures.
I supose you know it very well.

[Olika]

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[Andr]

You mixed photos from Belgorod - Russia and Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi - Ukraine (there are hundreds of kms between them). The beautiful castle on the Black Sea shore is in Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky (Cetatea Albă in Romanian) and was built by Romanian princes in this part of Moldavia which was awarded to Ukraine by the Soviet invaders in 1940-44.