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Foreign colleagues does not mean anything. It might as well be people from Mongolia or surrounding to Russia republics.
foreign /fôr′ĭn, fŏr′-/
adjective
- Located away from one’s native country. “on business in a foreign city.”
- Of, characteristic of, or from a place or country other than the one being considered. “a foreign custom.”
- Conducted or involved with other nations or governments; not domestic. “foreign trade.”
Don’t be disingenuous , even in native Russian it has distinction of worth:
…explanation of the concept [near abroad] in Russian: " ‘The term originally had an ironic nuance,’ said the historian Ivan Ivanovich. ‘People spoke of nastoyashchyeye za rubezhye, “the present-day abroad.” But now the words have acquired a purely informational meaning, in order to distinguish the new states of the C.I.S. [ Commonwealth of Independent States, a title now in the dustbin of history ] from the “original” abroad.’ “
