(informal) "Fearsome Russia", a wordplay often used in reaction to surreal modern happenings, dark echoes of the USSR, etc.

experience (an experience or one's (overall) experience)

to experience

stern, grave, forbidding; dignified, stately / strict, unforgiving / tight, close, without gaps / harsh, tough, extreme, severe, hard to withstand (said of natural phenomena)

(rare, archaic) wondrous, miraculous, splendid, sublime / (rare, archaic) dignified, solemn, stern, noble, refined / (rare, archaic) beautiful, pretty

the way in which something is tightly packed or close together without gaps

遅い: slow, late (as in delayed) / 遅い, 晩い: late (as in during the day)

遅く: late

悪阻: morning sickness

he / distal demonstrative, something far off removed from both speaker and listener: that / boyfriend