If you don't like walking alone deep at night in the far suburbs then you'll be treated ok. Yep, I'm Armenian but I was born here in Moscow and I still do not expirience any problems. I'm surprised that you know that saying about the samovar To my mind it is much more safer here than in the US or in the Latin America cause we almost don't have such cases like someone in the traffic in the daytime points a gun at you trying to hijack the car. Such cases are very rare and if they happen - the whole city knows about it. So you can easily let your wife drive a car. It is a common thing here if you see a woman driving Bentley Continental and Porsche Cayenne, Bmw X5 X6 and other SAVs are typical cars for a wife with a 'proper husband'. Here if the thieves want to steal your car the will do it stealthily without hijacking and using firearms - such thing won't be tolerated here especially nowc cause a week ago a police chief of Moscow has been dismissed by the president and all officers are scared of being caught for incompetence. And also a citizen can not carry a firearm here - our law strictly prohibits that. The only thing that is allowed is to buy non-lethal weapon with rubber bullets - but even to own this you have to collect a lot of documents and spend a lot of time and money to get a license.