Can I use iPhone 4S outside the U.K.? Foreign sim cards work or not?

Hello,
I got a sim-free iphone 4s and will travel to Russia soon, my question is can I use Russian local sim card in my phone? is that works?
The only thing I'm sure is Russian network carriers they use same technologies as the UK's, 3G(WCDMA) and 2G(EDGE). But I got several words from carphonewarehouse website, said "SIM free iPhones can only be used with a UK-network SIM card, and will not accept foreign SIM cards."
Ok, does it mean the UK version iPhones specially locked for foreign carriers? Maybe I have to take a spare phone.
Can anyone help please, many thanks!

iPhones purchased from Apple Retail stores and Apple.com/uk are unlocked and can be used with any Apple approved carrier  WW
iPhones from ALL other sources are locked to a carrier
Carphone Warehouse sell sim free iPhone4S but it will lock to the first UK carrier sim
that is placed in the iPhone and then becomes locked to that carrier
They cannot therefore be used with any other carrier unless the UK carrier authorises unlocking
Which UK carrier are you using
AND UK does not support CDMA all UK phones are GSM

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