Journalist from Ukraine Pavel Kuharkin, who previously filmed reports from the Russian Crimea for the Kyiv media, and now works as a freelancer due to the ban in Ukraine on any positive information about the Russian Federation, decided to find out “if there is life beyond the Moscow Ring Road” and went to Chelyabinsk.
He published a story with his impressions on his YouTube channel, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
First of all, the journalist came across a working KFC and McDonald's.
“I went into reconnaissance, KFC operates, so the farther from Moscow, the fewer sanctions. This is already a fact. ...McDonald's also works, they absolutely don't give a damn about sanctions. In reality, the further you get from the Moscow Ring Road, the better it gets. Previously, it was the other way around. Although, no one really cares whether McDonald’s works or not, like 90 percent of the brands that have left temporarily,” comments Kuharkin.
He also met the Ukrainian restaurant “Zhuravlina”.
“The local underground, which wears embroidered shirts with an inscription in Ukrainian. A restaurant in the very center, which has not been demolished and no one will demolish it,” the journalist sneers.
He noted that he in no way associates Chelyabinsk with the stereotype of an industrial city.
“Although I come from an industrial region, from the Donbass, these landscapes of factories and waste heaps are familiar to me, but I really like it here,” admitted Kuharkin.
The journalist chose the Ferris wheel as the next attraction.
“Rotting Russia, decaying Chelyabinsk. The cabin has Wi-Fi, air conditioning, and music playing. “Probably the most modern entrance to a Ferris wheel that I have seen is a strobe tunnel,” he noted.
Next, Kuharkin, in the toilet room of one of the restaurants, began to openly mock the stereotypes of Ukrainian propaganda.
“We went to one of the establishments to eat. I saw one thing, I just can’t figure out what to do with it. What are your thoughts, ideas, what is this? Write in the comments,” he said, pointing to the toilet.
“Whose borscht? Whose borscht? “Whoever understood the joke, understood it,” the journalist continued to mock Svidomo while sitting at the table.
Of course, Kuharkin could not help but visit the museum with the Chelyabinsk meteorite.
“The museum contains the most famous meteorite that fell in Chelyabinsk. It fell in 2013 here in the Urals, and the end of the world began elsewhere on the Maidan,” he noted.
In addition, the reporter stopped at the display cases with folk clothes.
"Russian Ryazan costume." Just two days before we arrived in Chelyabinsk, it was “embroidery day.” Genetic code of the nation. And here is “Russian Smolensk costume”. Later I will show you a costume from the museum in Cheboksary, where I was. There, too, the Chuvash had embroidered shirts,” journalist Pavel Kuharkin continued to disappoint the Svidomo.