Russian Cursive

I find it interesting that Russians use cursive to write. Now in America cursive is dying in popularity. I learned English cursive in elementary school but I no longer remember all of it or use it. I only use it to sign my name in documents. Universities want printed papers not hand written now so it is no longer used in schools. I no longer see it written in hand written notes. Only by older people like my grandparents.

 

What about unimportant information hand written in Russian? Are they still in Russian cursive?

Like Shopping lists

Small reminder notes

 

Is it ever normal to hand write in block Russian letters?

 

I am learning to write Russian cursive and just curious how popular it really is to write hand written notes in cursive.