this trouble, of course, has united everyone special forces, police and even the local men, ended up storming the full ending the siege and killing most of the terrorist. only one of them survive, who's now serving a life sentence in jail who's amazing was heavily damaged by explosions and fire. and so it became a memorial sites that preserved almost exactly the same as it was right after the siege ended throughout all these years. people from all across the russia had been coming there being their respects and leaving signs of support and to be on its was this tragedy truly shots the entire country. and this one became a living reminder of the holistic nature of terror which are unfortunately still hasn't been defeated. and the attacks on rushes south and republics are merely the latest examples. surely you can change faces and names, but the in human nature of their always remains the same. you go to spend off our t reporting from this one was actually of this now say, so watch a,

i'll see you again. the of wanted to come here since i was 121 my grandfather told me his mom came from russia. if 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, felt 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 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

in i've never been out here in like your interest. so 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, it makes cheese and the country side 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 joe is an i t program manager. he worked in many large companies including microsoft, but he gave up everything and moved to russia with his wife and 6 children. and now they're about to have a 7. so apparently they had a very good reason to relocate. did he talk you into russia? 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, is 6 states in less than 6 months past these laws that even a 5 year old kid can be taken away from their parents and take them to the hospital and shop a lot. yeah. that's just the reality we've uh and people ask us ok, hey,

well, i mean like is rampant. 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 wouldn't. okay. i know we don't have a flash, a lot of traditional teachers anyway. the flushing traditional switch is out of the system that's filling it up with cuckoos. and these people likes child stressed out that being bullied, so they send them home with, well, maybe your upset cuz you're actually the rooms. and just like maybe you are actually just helping people going on here. and they actually condition is chosen 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 art classes with our whole year. these parents to children were attending on clocks. literally this complete in version 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 and there's things. if you take care, you know, nobody could criticize the coming out to me. children who are behavior is 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 would you be the 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 hands. this is like the most traditional in the angle world, both the boys had and, and their i b decked with bays and rosemary and somebody tag this animal rights activist. drew, i put out my name where i worked, who the phone numbers to like,

oh, my complaint was pressed for eating of pigs had brought it 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 him, i mean this goes from 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 says pregnancy ended up being on the case today 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 still it was like intense was the loose, is a good team. russian. see, are you a little russian more tables? one of his best with the is high chance we look at in the morning and make money. had said 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? are you i never 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 is here. right. and i do in america,

if the 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 instead of 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 here. so you love this house. what are the learning funny the,

so we're on the way to meet somebody who is pretty famous here in russia. he's a farmer, an ex pat has 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 bach. uh excuse me. another american area. yeah. and the another yang of your story. we're going to go broke to go. all right, awesome. it's hard to believe now, but jay was a famous shift to even to, to the rolling stones. he used to run several restaurants and moscow. he was also a dare devil biker in radio host,

but he gave it all of the sort of submarine which he had more in france and bought land in the countryside. then he built a house and moved here. let's get rid of the 2 gods. one bulls in 3 years will have lead milk. i agreed and there we go. 3 years later, the rogue starts. and what are you going to do? which are the leaders of 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 sort. i got here 93 things, shooting it away, nose and it was there was little money for us was in the hospitals wall and a board and everything was really bad. you mean 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, 761, a senior. go go and more like home. i would start to go to other countries and i

just want to get back home to russian. so it's all i say and people, hey, if you could leave in the rush, you can leave it anywhere in the world. it's not easy here. i mean, of course, it's hard. it's not the language of the alphabet of culture stammer shaking hands under a doorway. the boxes solves on the table. man, it's thousands of. i don't believe in the life of the divine touch would 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 15th june was probably reasonable garcey there. in this case, a to communist room full draining the where again, from the tv they were the ones writing the programs right. better and then there

was a lot of people say to anybody you a long there 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, clint bailey. daily emails installed on watches for how many elections and we're going to right. how many sessions ations of elected officials have we actually done re weighed war against the paper because they weren't to brands, which are things that the russians available. right. when really rich and really like the biggest brands, 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 is the o drink if it's possible. fussing. was similar to the

weight. tabasco sauce made in the us. the sanctions are failed. ok. what's the drove? yeah, well i think the same colors. same ice cream. you know, the oil you made in the usa, even j will confirm sanctions and russia have failed. he ordered this on as 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 have decided to go with them. i want to see what car service is like in the russian hinterland. what is this thing of the continental fox? oh son, we, integrity with the rest of the world. we're going to relate to the wind in terms of donations on, in terms of tray,

africa must define what she wants. political assets might define ourselves. cultures also come define ourselves critically. the cause of your guys no choice but to move forward and forward. she will oh, i sort of get sold, sold on the road. so it's yeah. so the milk now the guys really me right of here. yeah. the guys have to push, push no, that option to stop. you got it. you got it. all right, let's see if we can force james kara with rocket,

for fitness stop. far it looks like we're good to look at that. a look at this beautiful villas to wow, look the key up, the hill is amazing. place here, this is a beautiful village by the way, a lot of people in america think these villages are disliked falling apart. so lot of your neighbors coming, they buy choose from you. yeah, go buy cheese or master class. they learn how to make, which is all they come and learn how to make g j is 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 reward under your ok, is there any upgrades or warning rooms

for you? that's it. what do you pay for an oil change today? and like $10.00? 10 dollars, 10 dollars. oh, maybe $5.00. $5.00. 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's just part of the natural process every day. turn it over, the rubber boot down, talk to good morning to next week. this is romano like was really good. this is this is the gold detailing and garden so dried tomatoes. bell peppers, the metal metal. grumpy with rush. shockley. 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 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 a tough how you doing for more years old or was it frozen as well? you 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, ah, well what, what made you decide to come to russia? i received the asylum and so far as i know, the next man after is known to get it. and it's american us embassies. and for countries that come after me is 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 on my wife. uh, they interrogated me, they visited me and bought here in prison. personally the i came, they tried to make deals. and also whenever can microsoft, i cover 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 to say, hey, you know, i'm from the intelligence agencies. but very clearly there are 3 recruitment attempts. 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 anyways. here lived in europe the and you can prove this. yeah, i do all this and then they said they told the newspaper, the indictment, they said that i physically kidnapped him with the problem was i was in the united states and neither was he the just 2 months prior, the same judge who set this whole thing up put him on a plane using police to return to because he was visiting his mother for the summer in the us and she didn't want to return them. and the judge said, nope, he said the police take away, 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. like what the social media sometimes seni danziger last quarter. easy thing. yeah. i'm a 49 year old old man. but that's all social media works. right? yeah. i have you know, 50 to these by now and that's how it works. i had to order 2 police officers to physically movies. my mother 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 childrens list. and chat is still on the wanted list. were you ever contracted by the government? no, 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, 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 forest 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 lived in the same house phone for many years. and they had basically, i guess, wouldn't america be called top secret type? ok. and it became pretty evident that somebody in the american halogens agency had some kind of white dream that thought i could somehow blackmail my family and get me information. okay. it was never going to happen. we never discuss this stuff. my family would never give me information about that. i would never ask. russian may have and i don't have to if this, but maybe they offer me the asylum because i believe russian was part of 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 so absolutely. it is extremely search here for americans asking all the time if that covers a towards be safe and americans to be more safe in the cities here than they are home. i say this a lot of people 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. if 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 average 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's the feet? yes, i drove out, i do the videos that all the time and they always ask the same thing. like me chat is asked 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 russian and people believe them. so we decided to drive to the market and see for our center supposed month. oh wow, look at this place. funny on the for the fish. a bill. me stick the fisher and 5. yeah. yeah. i think i used to be really nice people. yeah. yeah. yes. i have come to spy on your final production. everybody as a they have to man is here or not. they said russian cake, it's a man and let's take a look. i think there's 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 tomatoes, tomatoes. that all the way down command estimate is man is yeah. so it's all 1st of all, look at these because i've seen this based on on already was

a good look chose 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 toward. yeah. these are very high swings. papa has to be careful not to push you 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 1000000000 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

than living here. moscow is, feels very safe by people help us around the city all all the time. and most of parts are everywhere. i mean, i've 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 city. they had a park for a kid called worlds 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 it was never getting reported on like these kids are just disappearing for these theme parks. listen, i'm talking to the use aids here. just say, 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 to 2000. yeah. and, and, and you're calling me to see if i'm ok. no, i'm concerned about you the what are your future plans? i am looking for a job. now that i'm asylum, i can work your legal way. so that's great. i like to find a public speaking job or maybe something immediate on tv, something in saint petersburg? no, because i don't want to move to moscow. 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 and 12, and it's really my experience of an entire world. i mean the people here as you see, if you even slightly brush into somebody there to something safe to 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 here to my new religion and country road to deal. ready with my goats and my dogs and dads and like change, i love even change. so it's the camp, this guy, and that is where you feel like whole it don't have to be your land. it can be way around where you are 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. the sound of this out of you. i get it. does i totally get it? i've got about 6 or 7 people that want to come visit this year. right. but i've warned, every single one of them i said, you know, the worst part about visiting russia is when you get here, you don't want to lease 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 the. ready the line, scott bennett, i'm a former united states army psychological warfare officer is served in the state department counterterrorism office under investor del daily

the . so i wanted to come here to russia in the dawn bass area and gather the facts to take back to the american people. the hold on bass is the front line, so this is where the bombs and the bullets are raging. and this is where people are dying. this is where the buildings are exploding. of the go, i wanted to see 1st hand the scars of war. the

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