Moscow is cleaner, safer and overall more civilized than most western european capitals.
>>214609791It looks as though they invested everything into 2-3 "futuristic" skyscrapers, surrounded by a few more generic ones, and everything outside of that is just commie blocks.
>>214609791it's objectively not true but let Russian have this cope, it looks like it's the only thing that gives them any sense of life>okay, my personal life in the impoverished countryside with no running water and inside toilet might be total shit b-but at least we have an amazing capital city i can see on TV!!111
Vgh the third rome
>>214609791Why are russian demographic numbers so funky, if you look by federal districts, there's only two with 90%+ slavic, yet if you look at their 1m+ cities, pretty much all of them except two are 90%+ slavic, even Moscow and St. Petersburg. They might be the only country in the world where white-coded people are more urban while non-whites are more urban, like jews being the only firstworld-coded people who have babies. Why does this happen in Russia and Israel?
>>214609905>polack starts talking about toilets and plumbing
>>214609791there's drone bombings in those very skyscrapers
>>214609975because in Russia Muslims are mostly native and originate and live predominantly in the countryside or in their own provincial capitals, while only immigrating to big Russian cities occasionally? also, don't trust official Russian demographic stats, everyone knows there are several times more non-Russians in Moscow/Spb than the official data shows, just most of them don't register in these cities so they aren't counted as formal residents.
>>214610049Yeah second part of your post probably explains it the most, I think it's also Russia having less and less demographic data, I think only like 65-70% actually even give data while the rest is speculated on those 70% numbers
>>214610096there is a cult of 'propiska' (registration in the city) in Russia, generally moving to a big city is one thing, but getting a 'propiska' is another thing, it can be compared to what it is to move to a foreign country vs getting a citizenship of the foreign country. Propiska gives you a whole range of new possibilities, especially if it's the Moscow one, because then you can use local Moscow subsidies, welfare etc, which is several times higher than what Russia offers on the federal level. Not so long time ago, if you were an incel with Moscow propiska, you could easily get a wife from the countryside because they would marry everyone just for the propiska (it's less of a thing now because they can just marry a Chinese guy and it's a better deal). There is even a weird scheme now, because Moscow local government pays much better money to those who enlisted in the army to fight in Ukraine now, so provincial people first buy a propiska in Moscow (you can buy/rent it like everything in Russia), then apply for the army in a Moscow draft office, get the very high subsidy and only then go to the front.
>>214609791being safer than western islamic countries is a VERY low bar
>>214609975Vast majority of migrants aren't living there officially and also "Russian" is racially ambiguous (take Sobyanin for example)
