Whenever I pop into Google Flights prices looking at other trips Moscow would always pop up dirt cheap. Enough that some of the deals to Europe would have you popping into Russia, then back into Europe (shit would take DAYS tho).

Years ago I was hanging with a musician in Paris who had a Russian girlfriend and he would talk about the weird static they would get there(mainly according to him in big cities, the smaller towns, funny enough, were cool).

But I know people who've gone and loved it.