How s business in Pattaya, Thailand? Exclusive FHD video interview with Dmitry Chernyshev, General Manager of the very cool Siam@Siam Design Hotel Pattaya. In this interview, filmed on 7 March 2019, Steven Howard asks Dmitry about the hotel, why the property s location is such a great selling point, where his guests are coming from, and what he is doing to balance out the guest portfolio a little better.
Long before the rush to the borders triggered by the partial mobilization, tens of thousands of Russians from the educated middle class fled, opposed to Vladimir Putin s regime and his war in Ukraine. Many draw parallels to the early 20th-century mass emigration caused by the Bolshevik Revolution.
“Everyone is hoping for some kind of conspiracy at the top that one of Vladimir Putin’s close associates or oligarchs will kill him,” says popular Russian blogger and longtime Kremlin critic Dmitry Chernyshev. “But it seems to me that will not be a solution,” he adds. Instead, Chernyshev, a 55-year-old writer and lecturer, is…