You are very kind, Russ.

I think technically it is not a problem for American citizens to visit Russia as tourists, as we don't have a
lot of migrants from US so far, the procedure shouldn't be difficult. It is just the political climate may add some nervousness to the whole deal, and some officials may do something stupid, which would be upsetting.

As a matter of fact, just recently Russia added some new law, which is kind of inviting everyone from NATO countries to Russia as long as they follow some "traditional values"; perhaps you would call it "anti-woke-values"; but it looks a bit like they just improvising. Russia is in demographic crisis, which results in a lot of people from Cental Asia come here for jobs, perhaps the state would be happy to balance it out.

My older brother was on a business trip to America just last year, he was looking there for some investments, looks like it went okay. And years ago, in 1996, my dad was invited to visit Los Alamos as an engineer, so he spent there two weeks; he went there with his coworkers. But apart from good relationship between our countries back then, poverty in Russia in 1996 was much more obvious than it is now.

The media says that by today more that a half American companies keep working in Russia after 2022.

Personally I'd love to visit America someday. My parents thought about moving there, but my mom said that she wasn't going to abandon her mother here, which now makes sense, as now my granny needs a lot of care. Now I'm almost 40; so I realize that I won't be comfortable leaving my parents here as well; also in Russia we are used to think that $1000 should cover rent, bills and all the products for a month, which is not really the case in US; so a lot of reasons to stay put. But we'll see...

Best regards to you, too!