Suggested corrections. Apologies if I’ve changed the intent anywhere while editing.

The following question was published today on Italki: What culture is there in your country? I was not able to answer this question, because it is so difficult and multidimensional, but also very interesting at the same time. I decided to google it, as maybe somebody else knows the answer. I am interested in what people think about us, as well as our culture.

I found a very interesting book, “This Russians Are Crazy” by Anna-Lena Lauren, a Finnish journalist who lived in Russia for four years, working as a special correspondent for the Finnish channel YLE. This allowed her to become thoroughly familiar with both official life in our country, as well as our culture, public relations and history.

The book deals with relationships between men and women, Russian politics, the Second World War, our government, bureaucracy, etc. This Finnish journalist wrote such enthusiasm about the high cultural level of the Russian people that it inadvertently fills me with pride. Certainly I don’t agree with her in many questions. But on the other hand, many things that she wrote are absolutely true.
But I want to ask those of you who are not from Russia: what do you think about us? And how much do you know about our country?

((Please note that “high cultural level” doesn’t ring natural to me, but I’m unable to think of a good workaround at this point. Maybe: “This Finnish journalist wrote such enthusiasm about the prominent role that culture plays within the live of the Russian people” ?

Thanks for the tip about the book. As an extension of my Russian language studies, I’ve begun to think about differences between Russian society/culture and that of many Western European societies. Unfortunately, much of the literature I’ve found thus far on this is a bit too academic in its approach, which isn’t exactly what I’m looking for in this instance. Anna-Lena Lauren’s book seems to be pitched at exactly the right level, and it’s in Swedish as well!))

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Today on Italki was had published the a question : What culture is there in your country? I was not be able to answer this question, because it's so difficult, multidimensional but very interesting at the same time. I decided search to in google- may be somebody knows it. I am was interested to know, what people think about us and our culture.
And so now I have found a very interesting book called «This Russians are crazy» by Anna-Lena Lauren, a finnish journalist who was living in Russia for 4 years. She was working as a special correspondent of YLE-channel that made her possible to deeply discover not only the official life of our country but also its culture, public relations and history.
The book deals with the relationship between men and women, Russian politics, the second world war, our government, bureaucracy etc.
This finnish journalist with such enthusiasm talks about the high cultural level of the Russian people that inadvertently makes me pride)
Certanly I don’t agree with her in many questions. Many things are absolutely true.
But I want to ask to those, who are not from Russia: what do you think about us? And how much do you know about our country?

Hello Bokrrr. How are you?

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Please correct and answer me)))

Today on Italki was published the question : What culture is there in your country? I was not be able to answer this question, because it  is  so difficult, multidimensional but very interesting at the same time. I decided to google- may be somebody knows it. I am interested in what people think about us and our culture.
And so I have found a very interesting book called «This Russians are crazy» by Anna-Lena Lauren, a Finnish journalist who was living in Russia for 4 years. She was working as a special correspondent of YLE-channel that allowed/permitted her  to deeply discover not only the official life of our country but also its culture, public relations and history.
The book deals with the relationship between men and women, Russian politics, the second world war, our government, bureaucracy etc.
This Finnish journalist with such enthusiasm talks about the high cultural level of the Russian people that inadvertently makes me proud)
Certanly I don’t agree with her in regard to  many questions. Many things are absolutely true.
But I want to ask those who are not from Russia: what do you think about us? And how much do you know about our country?

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 I would attempt to answer the question,  but it would require a book length essay to address the question  objectively.

  If your question  were more specific,  such as an inquiry about a specific context like Fine Arts  as representative of culture,  I could write something about the Literature of Russia  and the Moral Short Stories of Tolstoy, or Dosoevsky, who declared that if there  was no God, there could be no  Morality, which is the general conclusion of  First Tier Philosophers

   In other literature, more contemporary,  I could mention  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn  who authored  "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" as a subject for our discussion.

    I might also, in the context of Fine Arts,  address the profound musical  composers such as Mussgorsky who wrote  "Pictures At An Exhibition" which is profound.

I might mention the compositions of Rachmaninoff, the tortured genius.

    There are many things I could discuss about  Russian people, but simply  haven't the capability of doing so in a succinct manner. It is a great question though.---Warm Regards, Bruce