Answers to some of your most pressing questions...

Is there a difference between American and Russian snickers (yes the candy bar)? 

If so, what is the difference?

And, which one is better? 

Since you've been dying to know the answers (which will be quite Earth shattering I'm sure), Tim and I went out of our way to do a double blind, statistically significant comparison study--- okay not really we just brought a snickers home from Russia, got one locally, and ate them.  Still don't let that make you discredit our findings, because we do have the answers to your queries (or our queries).

Is there a difference? Yes, yes there is.

What is the difference- Well from the out side not much, the name is still snickers (consistent branding is important), but the other writing is in the native language... Oh beyond the writing on the wrapper?  Bigger difference there- American snickers have more caramel and better chocolate.  Russian snickers have a much more "nutty" flavor (and apparently come in hazelnut *see picture below- not of our snickers we just got the ordinary peanut so this did not impact our comparison.)

Now the most important question... drum roll please... Which one is better?  The American snickers (for our tastes which we will extrapolate across the population and thus make this post applicable to everyone).  This is good news though (at least for our friends in the States), you now don't need to book a trip to Russia to get a snickers.  Yes, just stay here.  Although if you are in a foreign country, you can't deny that having a snickers is like a little taste of home and you don't really taste the difference because you can't remember what another snickers tasted like any way.