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The pronunciation you have heard is, indeed, [bɛə] not [bɛr]. If you had heard [bɛr], it would probably have sounded something like бэр or even бэрь to you.

To my ears, schwa [ə] sounds like...

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What you heard, an apical (post-)alveolar tap, is a "stage pronunciation." However, it is also heard in the ordinary English speech of Scotland and some other parts of the UK, and is familiar to...