Hi Rik,
Yes I am afraid the same applies in Hurghada. The majority of shopkeepers really don't like the Russian tourists (sorry if there are any on the board), they don't want to spend money and some are very rude.
Even when going into 'fixed price' shops they try and knock the guys down.

Perhaps someone with more knowledge than I have can perhaps enlighten me on the following. I believe that the agreement between Egypt & Russian comes to an end this year (i.e. Russian supplying arms to Egypt during the problems with Israel, Egypt not having the money to pay back the debt, therefore the Russians getting vacations at silly prices), does this mean that there will be a drop in Russian visitors once they have to pay the same prices as every other nationality do you think?