My parents worked there for 3 years - the most egregiously racist and corrupt people and without a shred of self-awareness My Dad had a black engineer from Chicago come to commission some hardware and they wouldn’t check him in at the hotel People literally spat at him in the street

We were listing examples of multi-ethnic societies which Russia just demonstrably is. It is not, however, as you demonstrate, anywhere near egalitarian or cosmopolitan as we might understand it, which is what I think the point of the thread was.