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I don't pay any attention to FCO travel advice, but that is a lot of red!
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I don't pay any attention to FCO travel advice, but that is a lot of red! 
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You may not. But your travel insurance company certainly does.
I personally know two people who have had to be rescued from Russia after accidents with broken bones. One of them nearly bankrupted the insurance company.
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I don't pay any attention to FCO travel advice, but that is a lot of red! 
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LOL, and yet somehow they managed to leave off Belarus and Ukraine...
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LOL, and yet somehow they managed to leave off Belarus and Ukraine... 
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I think the colouring in is just to show all those untalented at geography, where Russia actually is. It must have taken several UK civil servants many hours of intense crayoning
An aside: why would anyone want to fly back to today's UK? (I've a UK passport, but live elsewhere...). I flew back in January this year after a couple of years outside those islands and the only thing I missed when I left again were friends and proper  . (Sorry, this second paragraph is  )
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I think the colouring in is just to show all those untalented at geography, where Russia actually is. It must have taken several UK civil servants many hours of intense crayoning 
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Yes, after that imbecile Liz Truss had spent a good hour colouring in Brazil
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I'm struggling to see what you all expect the FCO to do?
They have information there is a war. They advise not to go there and for the purposes of those who may work better with visuals than text, probably due to health conditions, colour in a map. The FCO aren't a travel agency or a news agency.
Do you all expect traffic wardens to act as tour guides?
I live in the UK and intend to continue doing so. It isn't perfect but probably as good as it gets . Not going to get much further into politics but the biggest problem is a population above the comfort level for a small island. BREXIT was a first step to start fixing that. Over my garden fence is a slum imported from Bucharest, sorting that without importing another and another is logical. Sorry if that makes your holidays harder to organise. Yes, it would be better if the UK acted more like Switzerland and less like the USA, but hopefully that will come.
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... goes further into politics.
In other news, it's heartening to see how Europe has come together from all of this. Despite not having much money the Hungarian branch of my family are prepared to take in refugees, and even though we don't have a lot either we're chipping in to help support them.
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Back on the original topic, my sense right now is that this won't have a massive impact on NATO citizens travelling to the former Soviet Union, with the obvious exceptions of Russia and Ukraine.
Support for the war seems to be lukewarm at a Government level in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. See today's UN vote as an indication of that, here, where all either didn't vote, abstained or voted for the resolution criticising the invasion:
https://www.axios.com/united-nations...50f01c754.html
Right now it seems to me that the main obstacles for this year's riding season will a) depend on whether the conflict widens beyond Ukraine and b) continue to be existing land border closures (Kazakhstan and ambiguity on a few others in particular).
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