Unfortunately this website is not about investments or globalization. This is about where is the next place that "brothers" can go to get laid. From my perspective, because of the extent of the racial divide in Russia black people have safer options. Its not just about the skinheads, its the whole system - the immigration, the police, coworkers. Which happens in the West but in Russia its like the norm. Like it or not Russian is like any other 3rd world country (imagine Nigeria with that kind of lawless racism towards whites - that is Russia for you).
As for South Africa - first and foremost that for "Allan Boesak" background I didnt know but thats the problem with us exiles. For me South Africa is a sick and violent country. Its democracy is only 16 years but to be fair it has behaved like a 30 year old (whilst Russia is 20 years old behaving like a 10 year old). With the wounds of the past so fresh, its rare to see interracial relationships AND only from the white side but the blacks too. Even Allan Boesak (mentioned above), he is not considered black but has his own category of "colored". Obama shockingly would have had no chance of being president in Kenya or the new South Africa, because he is a colored. People generally stick to themselves and most interracial relationships are behind closed doors and/or with Europeans. Close to impossible to seeing an Afrikaner girl with a zulu...even the thought of it and people will laugh at you. If that rare couple is there - they will get the looks (the girl may even get disowned) but you will not find either of them dead!!! In South Africa they will kill you for your shoes, watch and car behind they even consider attacking you for whom you are dating!
Thats the difference. And this is not personal, I have Russian male friends and I have had my share of Russian women - its just my generalisation based on my life.
I didn't realise that this website was hints and tips for where brothers could get laid. I certainly wouldn't be here if it was just that.
The police in Russia are as unreliable as you can get. They con their own people. Foreigners get scammed by the Russian police all the time. As I mentioned before, my mother who is Russian got detained in police custody for three days when she went back to visit, and this was for no other reason that she lives in England now. These aren't segregated attacks against a certain race, these are attacks against anyone they can get money from. Russian police is corrupt. Corrupt police don't discriminate racially.
I know Russia. I am from Russia. I have been to Russia, so I
know Russia. I'm Russian. And I know the flaws and faults that the country has. It is a developping country, not a third world country.
I can also tell you that this is not the norm. I am good friends with two British black girls who are currently studying in Russia, one in St Petersburg and one in Yaroslavl and both are having the time of their lives. The girl in Yaroslavl especially. She has made lots of Russian friends, and the woman she lives with has took her on several vacations to her summer house and invited her friends and family to stay too. Her black family came to stay with her in Yaroslavl and loved it. I assure you that racism is NOT the norm. And it saddens me that in your experience it has been.
I can't comment on South Africa because I don't know enough about it. Thank you for explaining a lot of this to me, it's very, very interesting. It's something I want to look into further.
I also appreciate that you are at least speaking from experience rather than the dozens of others who just go off word of mouth.
Of course from a work point of view, your trip makes more sense. You have to go there, there aren't options available. And hell if you just don't like the country, you just don't like the country, nobody can force you to.
But I don't think I'm mixing anything really. Most people here are talking about where to go on a leisure trip rather than a business trip and it seems silly to me that people are choosing other Eastern European countries over Russia, when they all basically have the same issue if the issue in question is racism.
Now if this thread is solely for where to go and get Eastern European fanny, I'm not giving anyone any advise regarding that. Sex tourism isn't my speciality.