The Russians are coming (not)
Guess: How many Russians and Russians have a passport? In other words, what proportion of the Russian people attended (in) regularly to other countries?
Now you will think the same: The Russians really come in masses. Russian can be heard almost constantly and everywhere, you may think. Some people will think now maybe the uproar that occurred several years ago somewhere in Austria: Some hoteliers have forged in the winter season, an anti-Russian conspiracy - they would not see the Russians in their establishments. Respectively. listen - because this boorish savages with their loud and reckless Occurrence of other guests scare.
Well, guess, will you? If it is 75 percent? 50? 33?
No. Wrong guess.
There are fewer than ten percent. Infants and old people included. So ten to twelve million.
Some of you will now see that number unbelievable small. I hear so many of you who shout at me in horror: "Impossible," "lie" Maybe even - "appeasement propaganda"
senseless!. There are now times hard facts and fresh figures.
The Russians do not come. Most of those who wanted to come are long since over. The potential of the would-be coming is vanishingly small. Percentage is shrinking.
particularly in view of the crisis. Here are the latest statistics: Four (FOUR - not 40 and not even 14) percent of Russian citizens are planning to spend their annual vacation abroad.
completely unnecessary so the panic in the fall so many EU officials (this fake but rather used to), when asked after a possible abolition of visa requirements for Russians.
's more: Of these four percent of the travel-happy Russians want to save yourself a solid share of the cost of visas and harassment and prefer to travel to a country that demands of them a visa. Some in Turkey. Or after Israel. Meanwhile, there are more than 40 countries that the Russians are allowed to visit without a visa. For this year's bathing season, also countries such as Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia and many others - in Europe alone - the visas for the Russian guests abolished (Vietnam, Venezuela, Argentina and Colombia, by the way also, not only for the holiday season, but at all).
Speaking of Israel. Discussions on the visa abolition are still fresh in memory. Those who have traveled to Israel to know the local animal control for the serious entry and exit. Widely known is also the (unfortunately not unfounded) terrorist phobia in Israel. The requirement now calculated with Russia and therefore to create a country for which the Islamist terror after the two Chechen wars, is also still a problem - crazy?
ins much weight in the discussions also concern that many of the guests coming from Russia to Israel would also like to stay there - after all, make the emigrants from the former Soviet Union over 20 percent of today's Israeli population.
In September 2008 the visa regime between Israel and Russia but now abolished on both sides. Israel thus achieved a ten percent increase in tourist flow from Russia. A couple of posts for officials in the consulates have been deleted. No other significant consequences. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said
, Moscow would the visa requirements for EU citizens, "tomorrow" abolish the EU to do that. I think my minister, frankly, not always, in the case, I believe him but once. The atavistic
visa regime between EU and Russia has to go. In terms of the political, economic, ideological, propaganda, humanitarian and other advantages, the political, economic, ideological, propaganda, humanitarian and other disadvantages would be silly, ridiculous and hardly worth mentioning. I claim halt.
more about this maybe in a next Brief.
Auf bald.
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