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> Things would indeed be different if rural Dagestanians who are about to be drafted would start booking trips, but it is so telling that the digital media access, not the flight ticket is where the Kremlin intervenes. If someone wanted you to not learn about a culture, would they rather take away your opportunity to travel, or to go on the internet?

They only need to take away the internet, because the opportunity to travel never existed in the first place. And it's not as if, upon returning from your cultural experiences out west, your banking app isn't searched at the border for treacherous transactions. Physical travel is just dramatically easier to precisely control and dramatically more expensive to access, compared to digital media where you have to use a heavy-handed approach to blocking.

This post is, at it's core, "my town is being wrecked by tourism". That's perhaps a reasonable feeling for the author to have, but I don't really agree with any of the broader claims they're trying to make.