the, the the, i wanted to come here since i was 121 my grandfather told me, his mom came from russia. i was part russian. i didn't plan on staying this long. i was gonna look around. i was gonna see if it was for me that like it, maybe i'll look at some properties come back in a few more years after i'm retired and then just finish out life in russia. but then i came and then i was like, i don't remember when i go home, that's how i felt about rush. i love it. i love it so much here that i don't even want to leave. i just want to travel around rush, i have no desire to go to any other country. the ever been here in russia. the i've only lived here a few months,

but i wanted to tell you what fascinates me about russia and share the stories of other foreigners who lived here. like jay who worked as a chef and now it raises god's mixed cheese in the countryside. like chad who has been granted political asylum because he's being persecuted by the f b. i like an american family. that recently moved to russia with 6 children the year. we are happy to be here. this is my friend joe. a few months ago, he immigrated to russia with his large family. now i'm on the way to visit him. i want to find out why he decided to move here and how he likes it in russia to doing pretty good the

see that looks like the joe is an i t program manager. he worked and many large companies including microsoft, but he gave up everything and moved to russia with his wife and 6 children. and now they are about to have a 7. so apparently they had a very good reason to relocate. did he talk you interested? no, i think to be honest, we 1st rich the same conclusion. some states have had issues where they've come in and they've removed the child from here because they're claiming the child's being abused by not being able to think it was uh, it's 6 states in less than 6 months past these laws that even a 5 year old kid could be taken away from their parents and take them to the hospital and shop a lot. yeah. that's just a reality we've uh and people ask us okay, well, i mean like, is it ramped and is it happening to like everybody have you been threatened with

that? no, i'm not an idiot. i don't wait around for this stuff to continue to progress because that's what's been going on for the last several decades. a lot of people with traditional values wouldn't take the agenda, right? they would, okay. i know they flash a lot of traditional teachers anyway. the flushing traditional switch is out of the system that's filling it up with cookers. and these people likes child stressed out that being bullied, so they send them home with, well maybe you're upset cuz you're actually the rooms. and just like maybe you are actually just something people going on here and they actually condition these children to do that. and so it's, it's going on. and the amount of schools that have had secret classes one recently where they were having hot classes after school every day for a year. and they were actually, they weren't doing hard at all. oh, actually transgender crosses. and this is the, the article as well sir, who are these parents to the children were attending on clock? literally this complete inversion is we're perfectly fine shaming you if you're

a straight white male is you have a lot of kids, people to walk up to my wife, make rude comments are available, say the materials weirdest things. if you take care, you know, nobody could criticize or even coming out to me, children who are behavior is let me see what she says are you out of your mind. and she starts playing into me. everybody's terrified. there is no freedom of speech in america anymore. yes, there's nothing really mean about l g b, d organization or anything like that. oh, you'll be black, docks for life. people had to down no joke. i took a picture of christmas day because we had a boy's hand. this is like the most traditional in the angle world. most of the boys had and hand bare. i b decked with bays and rosemary and somebody tag this animal rights activist group. put out my name where i worked, who the phone numbers to like, oh, had somebody complain that was that pressure for eating

a pigs had by the here in russia, you can say what you think were out loud and the most relieving thing in the world . you actually are like me, this is actually really enjoyable. you can make jokes about this sort of stuff. nobody would, you know, cancel you or try to dock to or anything like that. talk about it. it was fine whenever you're moving on the what about health? carey, are you all worried about getting like the kids to a doctor or because oh okay, well i told them i'm and this goes at the end of last year and i had to go get a surgery. i was just like, oh, great, awesome. so like this is over for us because i'm going to drop, you know, tens of thousands of dollars on this, which i would have definitely in the states. i have like one of the best orthopedic surgeons. like 5 star level hospital room, 1300 bucks. yeah. my so pregnancy ended up being on the case day and i

think the bill was a $100000.00. we got a big discount on it because it was self pay. it was like $80000.00 and then we had the medical sharing. but so it was like, intense was listed as a good team, russian. see, are you a little russian more tables? one of his best with t is high chance we look at in the morning. i'd make money, he'd say, he what were your thoughts before coming to russia with a special military operation and how did you feel, were you worried that there was going to be like more on the outskirts of moscow or you? i know that. yeah, no, i thought there was going to be a war and i didn't want to be sitting, you know, at home in the middle of kansas down the street from fort riley when the, let me just say that i feel a lot safer here. right? than i do in america, if actual world war 3 breaks out, much, much better to be here. we don't have any kind of defense that could suit anything

that i mean, right? something goes on over in the, in the states. it's over me, you know, i remember right before we left, we, uh, we heard reports, the russian nuclear sub just pops his head up right off the coast of dc. hey, we're right here, just so you know, don't forget that we're right here. so there's nothing that you're going to defend against. uh, this goes sideways for the whole world, the euro. russian. so you love this house. what are the learning funny so we're on a way to meet somebody who is pretty famous here in russia. he's

a farmer to an ex pats who's been here since the 19 ninety's, so he shouldn't give us an interesting perspective on how things have changed here . one of the things he's most known for is cheats. so today, hoping that we can see some cheese production and get to meet some animals on his farm. the voc, uh excuse me, another american to various idea of who is coming. yeah and the another yang. a story. we're going to go move to go. all right, awesome. it's hard to believe now the j was a famous shift to even go to the rolling stones. he used to run several restaurants in moscow. he was also a dare devil biker in radio host, but he gave it all up sort of submarine, which he had more in france and bought land in the countryside. then he built

a house and moved here is to live in 2 calves. one boil in 3 years will have lead milk. i agreed and there we go. 3 years later the rope starts . and what are you going to do with your religion milk? that's how j starting making cheese, and would you believe it? he became one of the most famous cheese makers in russia. although when he 1st came here, you couldn't imagine anything of the sorts. i got here 93 things, shooting at the white house and it was there was little money for us was in the hospital as well and the boards and everything was really bad. you mean? so i couldn't imagine that. another country surviving. i think americans would die hungry. i didn't leave here right away. i came for 10 days and 20 days and 40 days sale and 61 a senior roland, more like home. i would start to go to other countries and i just want to get back home to russia. so it's all i say to people, hey, if you're currently in a rush,

you can leave it anywhere in the world. it's not easy here. i mean, of course it's hard at some of the language. some of the alphabet of culture ever shake hands under a doorway. so the boxes solves on the table. man is thousands of. i don't believe in the life of the divine judge wouldn't because it's like a habit. i asked jay if he's afraid to stay in russia after all, our countries have a very troubled relationship. the us embassy regularly purchase people to leave, but that's what happened before. when birth or the 16th to was problem reasonable, garcey, there was not case a drug communist room full draining all their games on the tv. they were the ones writing the programs right. better day there was a lot of people say to anybody you a long here was economy. anybody out of different idea was economy,

news like this river stuff. the russians are killed tv, maybe trump, for president or hillary claim payment. they linked or e mails. it's all the russians for hang on, how many electrons have we got in june, right. how many cars, especially ations, of elected officials, have we actually done re weighed war against the paper because they weren't a horrible in which we lived is saying that the russians available, right? when really wishing me like the biggest friends, i don't understand that at all. jay's business is going well and things have been going particularly well since a europe imposed sanctions banning in ports of cheese into rush and j as in suffering from the new sanctions either or so. oh, thank if it's possible. but seamless thing to fax you wait,

tabasco sauce made in the us. the sanctions are failed. ok. what's the job? yeah, well i think the same dollars. same ice cream. you know, the oil you made in the usa. even jay will confirm sanctions and russia have failed. he ordered this on us on, which is why i'm always ordering things. a j had to take his car to the garage today for an oil change, and i've decided to go with them. i want to see what car services like in the russian hinterland. the the, the

the quiet west 3. i mean, the thought on. i mean, i was kind of major was how your ship was starting system and obviously a hair dresser, a bus driver, a sales person, anyone could become a victim. that's how private negotiators, faster pen, looking for the best deal. but what i'm going to go to see we started this week again. ok, no, no,

no. yes, that's the reason why you're going to be up by the name on that on those over those are what i mean is you want the feasible mission on from the yes to the studies boys took over the series, making these things here and use this equation in the room is the oh, i sort of get sold, sold on the road. so it's a yeah. so the milk now guys really? me right of here. yeah. the guys have to push, push them, know that you got it. you got it. all

right, let's see if we can 1st james car. what's rocket for shit, the stop bar looks like we're good to look at that. a look at this beautiful villas to wow or ski up the hill. this is amazing place here, this is a beautiful village by the way, a lot of people in america think these villages are just like falling apart. so a lot of your neighbors coming, they buy choose from you. yeah. go buy chains or master class. they learn how to make g o, they come and learn how to make g for james, dropping his car off for an oil change, this is a russian brides. look at that and really look too much different than an american garage. they find out the middle of the country, so he'll bring home 3 years. we're really not. sure. ok.

is there any upgrades or warning rooms for you? that's it. what do you pay for oil change j and like 10 dollars, 10 dollars, 10 dollars? oh, maybe 5 dollars, 5 dollars. is it a good? let's go. the time is coming to try jay's cheese. he has a small shop and many kinds of different cheese j says there are 50 varieties in total. so it is just part of the natural process. every day turn it over, the rubber down. talk to good morning to next week. this is romano liked was really good. this is. this is called value garden. so dried tomatoes, bell peppers, speaking metal,

metal, grumpy with rush shopping. yes. i'm a sick man, but you know, don't hold it against the i'm heading to the northern capital of st. petersburg and american lives there whom the f b i. he has been hunting for 18 years. he's on interpose a red list. they tried to extradite him to the united states from different countries, 4 times now lives in russia. i've been following his story for a while, and i can finally, personally ask why the f b i as after him. i'm in st. petersburg, russia right now. my 1st time and it's probably the coldest day since i've arrived in russia, i am feeling it to my bones right now. the pills are due to it's up how you doing more here. so in the role of the frozen as well,

the more you tomorrow i can feel anything. oh no you came. i think you brought this weather with you man. yeah, i'm not good. it is. so i don't know to go back and tell me a little bit about yourself, like, uh, what, what made you decide to come to russia? i received asylum and so far as i know in the next man, after snow and to get it. and that's american, the us embassies and 4 countries that come after me in this wild. and so with a couple of theories, the one that most people come to me 1st like, oh, there's just a bunch of bureaucratic mistakes. but there's no way they raised our house in 2002 in cyprus. they have a huge file and my wife, they've interrogated me, they've visited me in boulder in prison. personally, a guy came, they tried to make deals. and also from microsoft, i cover in the middle east and africa and i had several intelligence agency trying to recruit me to work for them. and when i kept saying no, they wanted to make an offer. i couldn't refuse and they have a history that to and is approvable,

know because when they try and recruiters not like they leave behind a business card and say, hey, you know, i'm from the intelligence agency, but very clearly there are 3 recruitment of drums. why is it that the f b i is looking for you on the website? they say that i legally retain my son, which is not because i had custody of my son anywhere is already lived in europe. the and you can prove this. yeah. all this and then they said they told the newspapers, indictment, they said that i physically kidnapped them, of the problem was i was in the united states and neither was the, the, and just 2 months prior. the same judge who set this whole thing up, put them on a plane using police to return to me because he was visiting his mother for the summer in the us and she didn't wanna return him. and the judge said, nope, he said the police take a boy put them on a plane and then he the same judge, basically the foundation for get up and that whole thing's been dismissed, but the feds weren't dismissed there in the and he's, he's your strongest witness. in this case, and he is,

he's 27 now. yeah. he's done news interviews on american television saying that he was never kidnapped and as all the fires because when the guy does the sort of things, the only thing is ever fixed is massive publicity. i work the social media sometimes using the dancer you're going after doing sort of thing. yeah, i'm a 49 year old bad man, but social media works right? yeah, i have a 250 to these by now and that's how it works. i had to order 2 police officers to physically movies my mother and put me on a plane back to my dad hollis. and i'm not that's a, this is actual insanity. chad son now lives in the caribbean and he's still on the missing children's list. and chat is still on a wanted list. were you ever contracted by the government? no, never do you think maybe and this is just me being curious. do you think that perhaps uh, something that you may have worked on for one of these companies might be

a reason for any of this. i, i never worked on anything that was secretive or anything sort of that i have built software that's been in the space station. it is used by the government. right. but it's communication software. when i moved to russia in early 2001, i married into a family and lived with a family who worked in a military aviation factory. and they didn't like suite the floors or the thing. and it's not like they could possibly get access to military technology. they were engineers, they had a good range. so these were close family members and we did in the same household for many years. and they had basically, i guess what an american we called top secretary. okay. and it became pretty evident that somebody in the american halogens agency had some kind of wet dream that thought i could somehow blackmail my family and get me information. okay. it was never gonna happen. we never discuss this stuff. my family would never give me information about that. i would never ask. russia may have,

and i don't have to if this, but maybe they offer me the silent because i believe russian was far about more case my case than i do. right. and maybe it was a thank you for you know, hey, you had the chance to turn on us and you didn't, i don't know. do you feel safe, ever returning to the united states of america? no. and you feel safe here? oh, absolutely. it is extremely censure. right, americans ask me all the time if that covers a choice, be safe and americans to be more safe in the cities here than they are home. i say this a lot of people like back home i had a concealed weapons permit. i had to carry, hang on with me everywhere i went. and since i've been here, people asked me what about your gun rights now? what's the need for it? you don't need a gun. there is an american to say that that's really amazing. the driver expected . i have a friend from new york and he lives here and he says he got marked on adverse 3 times a year in new york. it's just, it's really crazy and i filled the metro's here and people like, where the people who. yeah, where is there a fee? yes, a drug kind of do the videos down a time and they always ask the same thing. like me chat is passed

a lot of strange questions on tick tock. recently, he was asked if it's true that russia had run out of tomatoes. the american media often writes nonsense stories about russia and people believe. so we decided to drive to the market and see for our center for the month. oh wow, look at this place. funny on the, on the fish a field stick, the figures and 5. yeah. yeah. they are really nice. easy on. yeah. yeah, i got you i have come to spy on your phone to to everybody as a they have to man is here. not uh they said russian. okay, just a minute and let's take a look. i think yours. okay. so tell me. does that look like that's a main audience? the tomato i like, yeah. tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, all the way down to me is to made estimate is that all the way down to man

estimated estimate is yeah, so it's all 1st of all, look at these because i've seen this based on uh on already was the look joe, look right over here or look at the gigs. is that amazing? got $32.00 boys, $1.00 and $1.00 of the belly. okay. we're good. i keep counting kids. i'm so paranoid because of america and america, if somebody would have like tucked them into their jacket and walked away. yeah. need a very high swings papa has to be careful not to push it too high. okay. your wife was telling me when she's on the forms for like mothers and america. yeah. that they talk about not letting their children, i guess not giving their children a gender. oh yeah. that's so weird. yeah. i mean, it's not like, yeah it's,

it's amazing really in america, not all, but it seems like a small portion i'd say are just brain i've never been felt safe for my entire life . the living here. moscow is, feels very safe bank. people help us around the city all the time and moscow parts there everywhere. i mean, i never had so much stuff for my kids to do ever in america the, the kids when they're like by themselves and you like panic, like where's their parents? somebody's gonna take the kids from the given cities. yeah. they had a part for a kid called world of fun. thousands of people over a decade, thousands of kids. it was being run by peter risk. and they were just taking kids and was never getting reported on like these kids are just disappearing for these theme parks. listen, i'm talking about a news aids here. just safe. yeah. in some ways i feel like i've already fulfilled

my dream. i've gotten them out right now. it is just about stabilize. right. so that, that to me is the most important people like want to talk about, you know, oh, it's a, it's a bad thing to do something if you're running away, i get those comments on social media all the time. why did you run? mm. i didn't run i left, you know that this horrible thing that happened with the crocus. right. and everybody is like calling me from the states. hey, are you okay huh. and i'm like, what do you mean? should i be calling you every, every week? right? every day i cool. you live in chicago, should i call you on saturdays in the morning? are you okay? one thing has happened, which is truly horrible. but since what the ninety's to 2000. yeah. and, and, and you're calling me to see if i'm okay. no, i'm concerned about you. right the what are your future plans? so i'm looking for

a job now that i'm asylum i can work here legally. so that's great. i'd like to find a public speaking job or maybe something immediate. on tv, something in st. petersburg? no, because i don't want to move them. oscar mazda is great. but st. petersburg, my john, what do you like most about st. petersburg? why do you like this city? you know, i've, i've traveled there almost 70 countries. i've lived in 12 and it's really my favorite city, an entire world. i mean the people here as you see, if you even slightly brush into somebody that us not hold the doors feels like you're living in a small town. there's something magical about the city to me, the map here any time i just want to come back in to one of religion and country road to deal with my goats and my dogs and chads and like change i love even change. so it's all i can describe there is where you feel like

it don't have to be your land. it can be way or know where you're in wired way or an example to the people our plans. now i'm assuming you're going to go for citizenship. absolutely. and you're not looking back, this is you, i get it is, i totally get it. i've got about 6 or 7 people, the one to come visit this year, right. but i wanted every single one of them. i said, you know, the worst part about visiting russia is when he gets here, you don't want to lease a 100 percent. so it's, you want to be a russian citizen. he asked me to buy, you want to be a russian with absolutely. most of it. ready ready the,

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