My mother hosted and taught French to half a dozen eastern refugees over 20 years, from Chechnya, Georgia, Kazakhstan and a few Tatars from Russia. Russia is ve

My mother hosted and taught French to half a dozen eastern refugees over 20 years, from Chechnya, Georgia, Kazakhstan and a few Tatars from Russia. Russia is very ethnocentric. Not Nazi level ethnocentric, but what you would expect from a person from an empire from the last 19th century.