It's an interesting pool. My first intention was to choose the answer "a"; but it would be not actually true, I think. Well, of course, the closest culture for us Russians is the European one. Also, I don't think we are as close to Asia culturally as it's usually considered. I'd rather agree with Ramil's statement that "Russia is just Russia and I don't think it requires any further classification." I think that we and Europeans, although we have close cultures, have many differences in our everyday life, way of life, psychology. I think a European is more predictable in his psychology than a Russian. He's also more... erm... "calm"; and I think things are more clearly "black-and-white" to him. But a Russian can strogly love and at once hate the same thing. As someone said, "only a Russian can be arguing to a foreigner that Russia is a bad country, and give him a box on the mug when he agrees".Originally Posted by Johanna