Considering Russian is not only spoken in Russia but also in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan, what would be the safest country to travel to where you can speak Russian? Probably not Russia or Ukraine because of the war but yeah.
Even aside from the border issues, there’s definitive unrest right now. They’ve been spraying people with straight-up Camite. Definitely not recommendable just based on that.
It’s a shame, they have such an interesting history, and one that goes way way further back than most would guess.