EF is bad everywhere. As for working in the Russian Federation, I have done that. Its a great ride with the right business. Otherwise it is very expensive for one thing, and there is a lot of corruption among police on the streets, etc. Housing is not so great unless your company provides it and it is of western standards or similar to a diplomatic housing situation or an ex-pat MNC housing assignment. The Russian Federation is a great experience, but you don't go there to work for EF. That wold be like sending someone into the USA to do a home stay in a crack house in Detroit in the middle of the winter.