Thank you everyone for your help by answering my questions.

katya,
are you one of the people who hate country they left and they never learned how to love country that harbored them as well so they always in 's**t here - s***t there' state of their life...no country can live up to their expectations?

Ziana:

Thanks for the question. I am actually born & raised in the US, and have ZERO Russian heritage (I'm actually Irish, English and Norwegian).

I love Russia, I love my Russian friends, and I feel that they are scrutinized unjustly.

So no- I do not feel that I hate the country I left- the only country I have "left" is the US. I left for school, for travel, etc... Russia is the country that has "harbored" me for any extended period of time. I definitely don't hate Russia. Sometimes I hate American policies. Sometimes I hate Russian policies, too (as well as Canadian, French...). This is realistic, as an educated person.

So thanks for the question.

Enjoy Florida.

<i>Sama- nenavizhu vlazhnuiu pogodu.</i>

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