Ultra Modern MOSCOW City 🇷🇺 Crazy Russian Robots (will surprise you)

We're going to be heading to Moscow City with a local girl, Lisa. Hello! Lisa or Lisa? Lisa. So they actually can pay with the card, also with their face. This is the bumble, the bumble coffee. It just looks so different, doesn't it? Nice, isn't it? This is so strange. This is like Asia. Look at them. Cheers! Na zdravie! Cheers! Getting drunk on a Friday night in Moscow. Waking up with a view of a Stalinist skyscraper. One of the seven. That wasn't on my 2025 trivia, but here we are. Welcome back to Moscow, Russia. We've been in the country now for almost, coming up to eight, nine days, and our aim from this trip wasn't to give you an opinion, wasn't to push an agenda. It was to show you our reality and what we see in Russia in 2025, and today we're going to show you something that you probably don't see in the media a lot. When you think of Russia, you think of the villages and big, grey Soviet apartments, but we're going to be heading to Moscow City with a local girl, Lisa. She wants to show us around her neighbourhood and the CBD area of Russia, of Moscow, an area that I'd never heard of and probably you haven't heard of yourself. So we're actually staying right here. The Kremlin area, the centre, is there, and then Moscow City, the new district, is right out here. One thing that we have seen on the news a lot at home and on social media is the supposed empty Russian supermarkets, with nothing on the shelves. A lot of the Western brands have left the market. I don't think that'll actually be the case so much here in Moscow, right in the centre. Remember, this is the best of Russia. If you're looking for an empty Russian supermarket, you probably want to head to the villages, but right next to our hotel is a massive Russian hypermarket. So let's see what a Russian supermarket looks like in 2025 during the sanctions. We're actually assuming that this is a pretty fair market, by the way. They look very dirty, as if they've just come to the village, which is where we think most of their vegetables have come from. 40 rubles is about... So all of this will be sourced within Russia. You've got onions here for 100 rubles for a kilo. You can see all the shelves are full and a lot of your Western brands are still here. So a milk, a bar of chocolate there, 180 rubles, which is pretty normal. They have Lindt chocolate here for 379. I think that might even be slightly cheaper than at home. I think that's cheaper than at home, yeah. You can see here in the fresh deli section, most of the cheeses are made Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia. So they've become very self-reliant. We also have Switzerland and there's another flag over there, which I'm not sure what it is, but the majority of it is that the meat is again going to come from Russia. Now this is supposed to go here, hence why they have their own version of Coca-Cola, but... So theirs is 73 rubles and the actual Coca-Cola is double the price. Yeah, that is really interesting. I wasn't expecting to find that in the supermarket. And then all of the Western beers that are not meant to be here are still here. You can even get a can of Guinness for 270 rubles. Your Stella for only 80 rubles, non-alcoholic. They've even got things that we can't get back home. Forged Irish stout, Conor McGregor's, 299. The craziest thing, the vodka aisle. So you can get a giant bottle, almost a litre of vodka for 349 rubles. So I think that's what, three English pounds? Today's video is brought to you by CyberGhost VPN. With over 38 million users worldwide, this is the most recommended VPN on the market. Now a VPN is essential for protecting your digital privacy. And if you think you're covered because you use private browsers, then think again. To put a stop to this privacy invasion, then you need CyberGhost VPN. It's really simple. 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One positive thing about Russia, they don't have them stupid lids that we have back home that are now attached to it. But how does a Russian fake Sprite taste? Exactly the blimmin' same. Hello! Lisa, nice to meet you. Matt. You're going to be our very own Russian tour guide. Where are we going to go first? I mean the weather's amazing as well this morning. Is this like the first hot day in Moscow so far? We're lucky. But last year we actually had snow in May. Really? Yeah, in May. It can be cold again, so... Really? Crazy. In St. Petersburg we had like sun, and then snow, and then we came to Moscow and it's been sort of up and down. Yeah. But we just like you guys to film. Exactly. And then you will go somewhere and maybe you'll see something awesome. Exactly. So we're going to see Moscow City as well, which is like the new Moscow. Yeah, I think I've played in Moscow City, and then we're going to explore like modern neighbourhoods. Perfect. A different side to the city. Yeah, a different side. We haven't seen the sides of Moscow like that yet, so that'll be good. So they actually compare with the cars, also with their face. So they just stand there and the camera catches them. That's so funny. The many faces of Moscow. You take two, three stops on the metro, and you feel like you're in a completely different city. We're actually a little bit lost right now, because in the centre of Moscow they have signal blockers, so even Yandex Maps doesn't work properly. Lisa was explaining that when you get outside of the centre it does work a bit better. It's essentially to stop drones. You're from Vladivostok, right? Yes. Why did you want to move to Moscow? Because I used to live in Vladivostok all my life, and it's kind of more interesting to live in Moscow because it has everything, and also it's a good location to travel everywhere. Of course. It has all railway stations, all airports, all direct flights you can have in Russia, you take from Moscow. And what's the main difference? Obviously we wanted to go to Vladivostok, but it's so far away, but what's the main difference between living in Vladivostok? You moved from Asia to Europe, right, essentially? Well, yeah, in Vladivostok you feel like living in Asia, actually. So it feels completely different? No, it looks like this. Do people look Asian there? No, they look like everyone in Moscow. People are the same, but just some more Asian nature, and some signs in Chinese language, and also a lot of Asian tourists there. That's because you're so close. And a lot more Asian restaurants, like Korean and Chinese restaurants, so overall it feels like you're somewhere in Asia. So the first area that we've come across to is Art Play. This is like an old industrial area that used to be full of Soviet factories that's been regenerated and turned into this hip hub for artists, young people to come to with like craft beer bars, lots of street art, and it's just somewhere completely different to what we've seen elsewhere in Moscow. You actually do see there's a lot of construction going on across the city. New areas seem to be popping up all the time. Maybe I try first, then you decide. No, we'll try it. Coffee with orange juice, right? It sounds terrible, but... Okay, we'll try one. We'll take your word for it, and we'll try one. This is the bumble, the bumble coffee. So we have espresso, orange juice, and what syrup did they put? Vanilla or something. Normal syrup, okay. Caramel, maybe caramel. Yeah, so you need to mix a little bit. Oh, so depending on how sweet you want it, you mix it a little bit. Yeah, because if you drink from the bottom, it will be only syrup. I'm not sure how I feel about this. Wow. Do you like it? I don't dislike it. It does just taste like orange juice and coffee. It's very refreshing when it's hot outside. I like how refreshing it is. Would you only find this in like hip areas like this? Yeah, everywhere. Everywhere? Very popular drink right now in Moscow. And this is slightly more expensive at 400 rubles, right? Yeah, because it's more like hip coffee shop. It's not so bad. If you go to Russian Starbucks, they also make this. They also make bumble? Yeah, everywhere. Don't you? On the menu? Yeah. Wow. Two things that should never go together. Coffee and orange juice. But it kind of works. This is definitely a young area. Like I said, a hip area of Moscow. Everything here actually seems to be in English before Russian. You've got like film schools. You've got stand-up comedy shows that they have of an evening. And I suppose these people are the future of this country. It's very different. Definitely a more expensive area. Higher end. The rich kids. City. So the idea goes all the way back to 1982. When a Soviet architect thought of this idea to build a new CBD to rival the likes of Canary Wharf in the most modern area of Moscow. And we're currently taking like this suburban train that goes around the city. And you can just see the contrast as you go along. You've got the new shiny buildings and then the old Soviet ones. So many of the old Soviet apartment blocks are being knocked down or generated and turned into these new modern areas. I didn't realize just how much construction is going on in Russia at the moment. Intercity train. Would this be the most expensive place in the city to live? How much would an average apartment here probably cost? Maybe two, three thousand dollars. And that's on the upper scale there. Yeah, it's crazy. So strange. This is like Asia. What do they deliver? Anything. And it just opens. Ah, and the guy will put the food in there and then it will send it. So he puts it in there and it will drive to someone's house. Yes. Dark storage of Yandex is another building over there. So Yandex has this. It's gonna go. And off it goes. Someone would be stealing these. 100%. These are so clever. They know when there's a... I don't know how, but they know that there's a red light at the crossing and now... What? Now they're going. Robots crossing the road in Moscow in 2025. And they have a face. We're gonna have to try and... Whoa! And he bumps into it. We're gonna have to try and order something from them. Their sensors are really good. Look. If I stand here, it goes around me. This is mental. Look at them. I've never seen anything like this. It's like China. This really is a far cry, isn't it? From what we all think of. The big grey Soviet apartment blocks. I know that is the reality for so many in Russia in 2025. But they also have places like this. I think four of the five highest tallest skyscrapers in Europe are actually located right here. Look at the size of them. All over, I believe, 300 meters. And different architects have designed each particular skyscraper. So they all have their own style and they all look incredibly unique. Of course. I see a lot of Gucci, Ferrari. And which one is the tallest in Moscow? Ah, this one here. It's really interesting to see a completely different side to Moscow. I know, like big cities, you would expect that Moscow would have this. You know, it's an absolutely humongous city. There's a lot of wealth in the city. But you think of communism. You look at this and it screams capitalism. Yeah, it's like two completely different worlds. Okay, we're now going to order something. So you have to go on Yandex. Yes, we have a Yandex app that has everything, like food, transport. Yandex Lavka is here. Oh, and Lavka is what these little things are. Yandex Lavka, it's a grocery delivery. Okay. Yeah. So what should we get? Can you order beer on... No. With the robots? No. Even if you order energy drink, it will ask your passport. Yeah, ID, of course. You can literally order everything on here. Everything, like all grocery stores. You can get your groceries, you can get your breakfast. Burgers. There's burgers. Salads. Everything. Ready to eat. If I want grocery, I usually... And it will drop it right to us here in the robot. Yeah. And the thing with the robots is they are free delivery because the robots aren't earning a wage. So you can always... It's paid for and we are now waiting. Look, the robot has been picked. I love this so much. So now we're just waiting. We have... It will be here in... That's maximum time, isn't it? So 20 to 30 minutes you wait. Now we wait for our robot delivery. So I think each building skyscraper has its own sort of like mall inside. And what better thing to do while waiting than have a craft beer? I don't know what beer I like. Oh, they have... Oh, they have BrewDog. So it's not just Russian beer. It's like worldwide. What would you like? Do you like a lager? Do you like light beer? I'm not a specialist. Could I get one of the New Riga stout, please? Which lager would you like, please? Russian lager. Russian lager, please. And what would you like? Okay, maybe same. And then the same, please. Spasiba, spasiba. Na zdravie. Okay, Russian lager. Let's taste it. Do you want to taste this? That's actually really nice. What do you think? All of our robots are actually busy at the moment. So £4 craft beer isn't too bad. I think this would obviously be the more expensive area. So I think £4 is a good price. For a Russian craft. For a Russian craft beer, yeah. As you can see, we're not the only ones that are enjoying one right now. How would you rate it out of 10? No, that's what I thought it was a bit more. I would prefer one full. Me too. Maybe a six or seven, right? And how is life for you in Russia at the minute? It's a hard question to ask, isn't it? Yeah, like in what sense? Because you see, I live in quite a nice area. See every day, nice environment. Easy. And do you prefer it to Vladivostok? Moscow or Vladivostok? Or do you prefer? I really like Moscow. It can be quite overwhelming because of how big it is. Yeah, it is. Like finding things to do or like deciding where you want to go. Maybe if you want to go out for dinner. But like, this is like a utopia. Yeah, it feels like a different world. This CBD feels like an escape from the rest of the country. Yeah, completely different. And you can see there's different people as well. Obviously, you have the robot. Really multicultural. Very multicultural. Yeah, but you feel here in Moscow very hustle, you know. You see all of this. Everyone else is doing that. Yeah, because you are inside this machine. Yeah, yeah. I suppose all big cities are like that in a way. London is the same. If you like this lifestyle, you will like Moscow. On your own village. Yeah. Have a dacha. A dacha? Dacha. Cute. This is, this is a big disaster. We have a... The old-fashioned way. A person delivering it. But we can ask him. Okay, maybe that's a good idea. Get me a robot. He said he's changing automatically. Robots are not available. They change it to the person. But there's robots here. Yeah, but we can try again. We were not lucky. Still can't get over this lady behind me. She's managed to get her delivery. Look, from the robot. It's ridiculous. So I actually think this used to be an old stone quarry before it was transformed into this. CBD. And we are now, I think, getting a ticket to go up to... I could be wrong, but I think it's the highest viewpoint observation tower in Europe. It's really interesting how all of the buildings have these giant malls attached to them. But you walk through the mall and you're looking at the shops. You're trying to notice shops that you know from back home. H&M, Zara. All your high ends like Gucci, Louis Vuitton. But you can't see them. They all have a different name. And even the car in the middle of the mall is Chinese. A Hong Kui. Never heard of it. It's so interesting. So yeah, the Chinese version of these cars has replaced Mercedes and Audi. Western brands. So obviously, if people that have a lot of money want to buy the Mercedes or Audi, they would have it shipped from one of the countries nearby. But this is the replacement that you can buy whilst you're here in Russia. It feels so strange walking around this giant modern shopping mall and really as a whole knowing none of the brands. So in front of me, this tower here was one of, if not the first building to be built here in Moscow City. And that right there was the bridge that connected the different sides of the roads. But already, this building behind me is getting destroyed to be rebuilt with a brand new one. And I thought, right, all these new fancy buildings, Chinese? No. Apparently, they are all built, owned by Russian businesses, Russian construction firms. Just look at that. You know, I quite like a sky rise, a modern skyscraper. I know a lot of people don't like them, but I think they have their place within a big city. It's done right. They've done it the same way here as they have in London. So they've built it out the way, not in the way of the old historic buildings. But we've now crossed the bridge, headed out of Moscow City and headed to Lisa's neighborhood. Yeah, so this is where Lisa lives. Lisa, what's the name of this? Is there a name for the area or is it just the name of the metro? Just the name of the metro. And if you don't mind me asking, how much roughly is it to stay in one of... And has the prices changed since the sanctions have come in? Has the cost of living gone up? It's not because of sanctions, it's because... Ah, I see. They cancel like a subsidized mortgage right now. So more people now renting apartments and buying, that's why... So like your groceries, things like this, or is it still the same? Yes, especially... So they've charged a premium and therefore you guys end up... Because that's a Russian owned... I still think the price is crazy. Seven, eight hundred, considering you're what, 20 minutes from the most modern area. We're trying to compare it to like London. In an apartment block like this, near the very center, would probably be like four, five thousand US dollars. Yeah, I mean the view apartment that looks to this side, maybe... Bargain for what you're getting. This is around one thousand dollars. Yeah, when you have a metro thing. So Moscow city would be upper class, this would be middle class. Then what would be like the working class to the lower? Would that be in the old sort of Soviet gray apartment blocks or... Maybe five hundred dollars. And that would be in the older buildings. It's been nice to see the different levels of society out here in Russia. From the very high end to this, the middle class, and then to the old Soviet apartments and villages. It's been in different areas. But this, particularly the middle class area, the new builds, they look very similar to what we have back in London, what we're building. It sort of still has that brickwork like industrial style. You can see so many being built. So actually last year in Moscow, they introduced the world's first year-round electric river vessel, the River Tram. And from Lisa's neighborhood, we can get on said tram, and it should take us up and along the Moskva River. And it even functions as an icebreaker because in the winter, in the harsh Russian winters, the river here freezes over and it can still function and go through it and just smash up the ice. These are really cool. They kind of remind me of the river transportation you get in Bangkok when you can just go up and down the river. Except these are like super futuristic. You can see it's kind of... It's like a spaceship. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. The only problem that we do have is that to jump on these, you need to pay with a Russian bank card or you need to have the transport system. We have neither. We don't have either. So we're going to hope that we can jump on it because these are really cool. It's crazy that these have become essentially a mode of public transport. And then you come into the little spaceship, which also doubles as a waiting room. Oh my goodness, it's so cool in here. I think there's one coming soon. We're just trying to see. They even have uniforms. It's got a little hat like over there. Hello. I think they are actually letting us on but we have to wait a little bit. But this is the route that it's going to take. It's going to take about 50 minutes to go up and down the river. And if you're paying by bank card, 120 rubles, about one basically like a river excursion, you are going up and down the river for 50 minutes for $1.20. You have a 360 degree waiting area. That's all there are. It just seems too fancy for one. It worked with the bank card. Even it smells good. This is so fun, isn't it? It's really, really busy. So I think at each station they only allow like five to six people on. And look, we're all quiet. So these are electric, aren't they? Yeah. And you were saying they're made in Russia. So this is a Russian made... I think we would presume because you see these in Asian countries, you might assume this is made by China. Yeah, but no. Russian. And we're off. There goes one of the others, I suppose. When you think about it, they're kind of pointless. They're amazing, like really cool technology. But in terms of public transport, it only gets like 40 people on at a time. And what would take like five minutes on the metro takes 15 minutes on this. So really it's sort of like a call way for tourists. One tourist call way for tourists. Once tourists come back to the city to get around, obviously for locals just to take in the views of the river, the sky rise. I think you've got toilets there and it even has like free water. Amazing, but pointless. From both sides, it seems like they're either demolishing the old Soviet apartments and making them into these new high rise. You can just see this is spreading all along. I still can't believe this is only a dollar. So supposedly one of the main reasons they built New Moscow or started to build it is because the old Seven Sisters Stalin skyscrapers were dominating the skyline and they wanted to modernize it. But we're coming along now along the river. And there is one of the Hotel Ukraina. Pretty poignant right now. And if I'm honest, I'd rather the Soviet skyscrapers. We're off. We're about to go into this giant mall to get some food. We went past the Kiev Hotel, the Ukraine Hotel and that is Kievsky railway station. So I presume for the start of the ongoing situation, you'd be able to get on a train from right there and go from Moscow to Kiev. Hopefully we can again soon. Can you guess what this is? Take a guess. Like Russian pancakes. They serve blini in Russian. So you call these blini, right? Pancakes with squid. Healthy and easy and cheap. And cheap. I like it. They even have an English menu showing you all of the blinis. The guy's making it in the background and it's super fast. I'm starving. I'm forward to this. It was like two minutes for cheese. Blini. What does blini mean? Because blini is damn, right? You say blin. Blin is damn. Blini pancake? Cheese and tomato pancake. Blini. I feel like it needs to be sweet though. I feel like a child again in a shopping mall food court, drinking my Sprite. Have a paper spaceship pteramon, but the blini looks good. Fast food. Savory. Pancake. Because the shopping mall is so busy. Cook and smoking also popular. Cinema. Going to shopping mall. You see, all people are all busy. Yeah, it's so busy. So because it's Friday, do we have to party? No. Getting drunk on a Friday night in Moscow. It was really fun day in Moscow. So good. Thank you for taking us around. And we were saying like before we came, we didn't know how we'd be treated being British, but everyone is actually even nicer to us because we are foreign. I also, because when I'm by myself, nobody pay attention to me. But if you're a foreigner, they mention that you're a foreigner and they want to be nice to you. Let's drink to that. Everyone's also really intrigued to know where we come from and very friendly. It's very rare to have English people in Moscow, in Russia right now. Especially speaking so loudly to a camera. The decisions you make on a Friday night in Moscow. We are trying again with the robots. So we're sat here enjoying a few beers. And I was thinking, you know what? I could do with a snack. So we're trying to get a robot to deliver us some food to the bar. We can see all the robots here. It seems to me that like on Arbat Street, there's quite a few of them. So you can actually look. So we've got a bottle of water and hopefully it's not a pound many on the way there. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Surely not. We have a robot, we think. Basically on Arbat Street, they seem to have a depot. So someone's chucking our food in the robot and it's going to bring it to us. Oh, this is exciting. It's happened again. I will do a Russian castle. Yes. I will fight for you. Tell them, tell them. Fight for our robot. The robot cancelled on us again. Lisa's going to pick it up from an actual man. What's the point in that? Back to Moscow. I have to come back to Moscow. Do your blooming job. We will have 100 more robots and then... What is the point in collecting from a man when it doesn't do its job? I'm actually upset still. I really am.