I am from Russia, but i am tatar, not russian.
Tatars - second nation after russians by population in Russian Federation
Russians have saying, sounds approximately like that:
Scrape russian and you will find tatar.
Before 1917 (October Revolution) tatars alphabet was based on the arabic graphics.
Some examples, tatars texts with pictures called shamail :
More :
http://gov.cap.ru/home/88/shamail/gallery/page_01.htm
http://www.shamail.antat.ru/index.htm
I m from Russian Federation, (not Russia).
6/10 maybe.
R.Fed. Big country. There are more than 100 nations (russians, tatars, chechens, bashkirs...).
Bad : In Winter too cold. (yesterday - 20c - 23c, today - 8c - 5c in my region (South Ural))
Good: We have a lot of snow , it's good for winter celebrates like "New Year", "Christmas" ...
p.s. sorry for my bad english