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Valentin Filippov, a Russian from Saint-Petersburg

Updated Dec 12, 2016 · Upvoted by Anirudh Raghuwanshi, former Business Development Analyst at Mutterfly
(2016-2017) and Tushar Sharma, lives in India (1995-present)

Originally Answered: What do Russians think about India? As indians view russia very positively.

For Russians, India is:

The land of fairy tales and legends, beautiful princes and princesses, majestic palaces and
ceremonies, mystical jungle and mighty animals. It is the land where magic is still possible, and
the world has not become dull yet.

The spiritual source. The territory of yogi and wise old men. The place where you can go and
find peace in your own soul. The country where people still retain the old secrets of the world.
Russians are traditionally very serious about spiritual life. Unfortunately, today our own roots
within the Orthodox church are lost forContinue
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Ārya Síddarth, Student (2005-present)

Answered Sep 22, 2020

Originally Answered: What do Russians think of India?

To every Indian reading this, I beg you to please STOP blindly loving Russia for nothing but political
reasons.

Most Russians have no idea about India’s success, economic growth, and future potential. Most of
them don’t even think of India, even if they do, all they think of poverty, bad hygiene and people
living in terrible conditions. They have no idea about India’s economic growth and future projections.

I know this because I have visited Russian-only sites and have seen a few discussions about India. All
of their points and arguments were horrible. They all viewed India as a failed, underdeveloped and
crashing country with no future. I was also a huge fan of Russia before this, but all of this stuff just
eroded all of my love towards it pretty fast.

A few of the points I saw

“Things are so bad in India that, the state equipped the Indian army with sticks and stones”
(referring to the 2020 India-China border dispute)

“The streets of India make Africa look clean” (referring to Goa)

“There’s an anti sanitary movement going on in India”

“India? A future super power? Really?”

Sure there’s a lot of poverty in India, but the average Russian thinks all Indians are extremely poor.
They are not aware of the fact that the Indian middle-class and upper-middle-class even exist.

They just don’t realize that Russia isn’t too far ahead of India in terms of quality of life!

If you’re in love with Vladamir Putin, please make a note that most Russians don’t really like his
leadership.

I’m sure there are a few people in Russia who understand India, but those people are few and far
between. Just understand that the average Russian does not really like India like the way Indians love
Russia.

If you still continue to love Russia blindly for no reason (other than politics), go on making a
fool out of yourself!
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Alexander Aleksandrov, visited Babi Yar every May 9 in the childhood

Answered Aug 11, 2013

Originally Answered: What do Russians think of Indians?

I've never been to India, I'm not acquainted personally to any citizen of India, but my appartment in
Moscow is situated not far from the square named in honour of Indira Gandhi. May be I am that average
Russian.
When I was a teenager I collected stamps. One of them was devoted to a telephone conversation
between L.Brezhnev and I.Gandhi. It was a special event because they used a stratospheric connection
or something of that kind. Then I travelled to Central
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Anand Nyamdavaa, Lived in India

Answered Jan 20, 2019

Originally Answered: What Russians think about India?

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I have seen on Quora many Russians writing about India and vice versa. A lot of them are with good
historical background, so I am not going to repeat it. But since I grew up in India and studied in the
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Russian Embassy’s school, I have some first-hand experiences. Every time I visited the Embassy
compound, I was always surprised by the vastness of it. It was so huge that it could have been a small
town. It was, in fact, called gorodok (a town). There were several compounds like this.
Nikita Volobuyev, studied at Гимназия №2
Answered Feb 4, 2015
The Soviet Embassy in India was one of the largest Soviet compounds in the non-socialist world.
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also, What do Russians think of Indians?
Hi! My personal attitude to India and it's people is very positive. I've never been to India, but I'm going
to visit it some day (hopefully soon). So, my attitude is based on those pieces of Indian culture, that we
can study here in the middle of Russia.
From here it looks to me like every Indian has a deeply philosophical uderstanding of life, very high
moral and spiritual values, that are consistently destroyed in western culture, where $$$ is now the
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Maria Golubenko, lives in Russia

Answered Apr 24, 2017

Originally Answered: How do common Russians view India?

India is beautiful and mysterious country, with great ancient culture. Bright colors, emotional people
and different traditions. For me, Indian culture is very interesting. Indian traditional dance is
fascinating. Sari is excellent feminine clothes. I like the way Indians follow their traditions: supressing
the worst and supporting the best ones. I appreciate how they manage to keep in peace the country
which is so densely populated and so diverse in terms of ethnicity and religion. Indians are very friendly
and polied people.

I like India. Well, I haven’t been there yet.

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Daniil Ishchenko, Russian business owner and conservative.

Answered Nov 15, 2015

Originally Answered: How do Russians see India, and what opinion they hold for Indians?

As an average Russian born in USSR I keep old memories of 'India - our friend'. And great thing is - so
many years have passed and India kept the reputation. India is still a friend.
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Kirill Valyas, Russian citizen who is proud to be Russian

Answered Nov 26, 2015

Originally Answered: How do Russians see India, and what opinion they hold for Indians?

We only see India and Indians as positive people and don't have any negative views about Indians. Also
many Indian movies are available on Russian TV (and I watched some) and Russia as a country has very
good relationships with India.
Many of my friends have been in India and liked it, because people are friendly and it was very cheap to
travel and stay there.
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Matthew Roust, lives in Russia

Answered Apr 13, 2015

Originally Answered: What do Russians think of Indians?

I feel positive enough, never thought anything negative. Generally we know so few about India here!
Attitude and perception is good, there are a lot of Indians at the West of Central Moscow Distrcict,
where I live. There is an Indian school, a few Indian spices, Indian goods shops, and sometimes I see
even men in chalma. Indian ladies generally wear classic Indian sari and have a red dot on the forehead.
Kids talk in English to each other. I`ve never heard of
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Dmitry Kantz, Chief-in-Editor at Tour Operators

Updated Nov 8, 2017

Originally Answered: What do Russian people think about India? Russia has been India's ally through thick and thin. how
does an average Russian feel about this?

Average Russians usually think that India is a big country, having big army and nuclear power, beeing
friendly to Russia. Practically all people whose childhood was in soviet times, remember the name of
“Indira Ghandi” with positive assiciation.

Also Russian (especialy yonger than 35) associate India with good and cheap beach leisure (Goa), and
with Himalaya, mystic and yoga. Indian cinema is a funny thing for Russians - many jokes about it
(Russians can’t understand why heroes of Indian films always dance and sing - it’s not natural for our
culture).

So the whole image of India is rather good, without any negative thoughts. But tourists, who have been
in Dehli usually say it’s very dirty in India, and many very poor people.
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Anonymous
Answered Jul 20, 2015

Originally Answered: What do Russians think about India? As indians view russia very positively.

I have seen many of my russian friends are feeling indias dialogues with USA as a threat to Indo-
Russian Friendship. Let me clarify a few things:
1. Russia is under heavy sanctions by the west, still india has not supported the sanctions on Russia
and will never do.
2. Political attachment to the usa is mainly due to the chinese threat in Indian Ocean and south china
sea. Similarly russia is improving ties with china.
3. Thirdly India needs foreign investment toContinue
lift up its economy. Unfortunately Russia & India have not
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Mikhail Kotykhov, works at Education with Results

Answered Dec 19, 2014

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Answered Oct 26, 2015

Originally Answered: What do Russians think of Indians?

It's a slippery question. Never been to India, but I work a lot with Indian engineers and some of my
friends are Indian. Like every other nation, some people fit cultural stereotypes better than others. My
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Myself, I have quite an extensive experience of interacting with people from various parts of India.
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Deepak Bakshi, lives in India

Answered Nov 8, 2015

Originally Answered: How do Russians see India, and what opinion they hold for Indians?

It would generally be good, considering the fact that India and Russia have been close allies since ages.
India has developed missiles in joint venture with Russia. There are regular military exercises between
India and Russia. India buys a lot of arms from Russia.

General Indian regards Russia as a friendly country - even India's best friend. Consider the fact that
Russia has supported Indian claims in most international forums and backed India's stance on Kashmir.
Russia also supports Indian claims in UN.

G'day
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Dmitry Ivanov, lives in Russia

Answered May 17, 2019

Originally Answered: How do Russians view India?

Hello!
It’s an interesting question. I think most of us know a few about India.

The first thing when I think about India is tea. The second is the poorness.

I do not why.

Another thing is the rich culture of this country. This is one of the countries which doesn’t look like any
other country in the World.

I suppose that it’s a great country an I have plans to visit it once.

Sincerely, Dmitry
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Vishal Sharma aka Vishal Krishna Sharma, lives in India

Answered Feb 11, 2021

Originally Answered: What does Russia think of Indian people and India?

I will speak to you from a Hindu Punjabi’s perspective, and from the perspective of a World Record
holder (I have a World Record where I lifted a Punching bag with my hair yelling Mahadeva’s name)

So russians are envious and jealous of Indians.

They are envious of our resourcefulness, rich culture, envious of our land, and jealous of our bodies.
They also fear our intellect and medical as well as scientific skills.

I lived around plenty of russians to know they are haters

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Amit Jambhale, BE from Savitribai Phule Pune University (2017)

Answered Jan 20, 2019

Originally Answered: What Russians think about India?

Most of them think india is poor, dirty, third world country having tropical hot climate. Most russian
think india is a mystery land where elephants, royal families with thier big castles, people who worship
different gods such as elephant headed ganesha or monkey god hanuman. Most of them know that
india is our militery market. There was once a bollywood influence on russia but now its not. Many
russian travel to goa for vacation. There is a growing
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