clearly out of step with voters and they have been punished for the pope wanted to come here since i was 12. when my grandfather told me of his mom came from russia, but 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 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 in your life 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 raises godes and it makes 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 how you doing pretty good.

the. the joe is an id 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 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, is 6 states in less than 6 months past. they've lost 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 of 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 wouldn't. okay. i know you 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 cookies. 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 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 classes after school every day for a year. and they were actually, they weren't doing hard at all. you actually, um, transgender across. and this is the, the article as well sir, holy. these parents to the children were attending on clock. literally this complete in version we're perfectly fine shaming you. if you're a straight white else, did you have a lot of kids people to walk up to my wife,

make rude comments? are available. say the many really there's things. if you take care, you know, nobody could criticize or for anyone coming out to me. children who are behavior is let me see what she says are you out of your mind and she starts lane into me. everybody's terrified there is no freedom of speech in america anymore. you say something really mean about l g b, d organization or anything like that? oh, you'll be black dots for live. 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, both of the boys had and, and their 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 by whatever you're moving on the. what about health? carey, are you all worried about getting like the kids to a doctor or the cost? oh, okay, well, i told them, i mean 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 had like one of the best orthopedic surgeons. like 5 star level hospital room, 1300 bucks. yeah. my 1st pregnancy ended up being on medicare stay and i think the bill was

a $100000.00 worth. i 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 to russian. see, are you a little russian more tables? one of his best read fee is high chance. look at me 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? 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 here. right. than i do in america, if actual world war 3, breaking down much, much better to be here, we don't have any type of defense that could shoot anything down. 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 some of the learning funny the, so we're on the way to meet somebody who is pretty famous here in russia to use

a farmer. and x pads 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 cheese. so today i'm hoping that we can see some change production and get to meet some animals on his farm. the back of the, excuse me, another american idea who is come. yeah. and the another yang of your story. we're going to go bill to go. all right, awesome. it's hard to believe. now the j was a famous shift to even to, 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 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 is to live scan to calves one boil in 3

years will have lead milk. i agreed and there we go. 3 years later in the rock starts and what are you going to do, which are related to a meal that's howled 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, maybe 3 things, shooting at the white nose and it was, there was no money for us. was in the hospitals all in a board and everything was really bad. you mean? so i couldn't imagine 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 saying 61 senior loan going more like home. i would start to go to other countries and i just want to get back home to russian. so it's home. i say to people, hey,

if you could live in a 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 the culture. samara shake hands on the doorway, the boxes on the table, ma'am, there's thousands of them. 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 this is what happened before when birth or the 6th day of june was probably a little gardening. there was not k c a to a communist of info draining all their games on 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 calling is i think this

is ever stuff. the russians are guilty. they maybe trump, for president or hillary, clint bailey. they linked are e mails. it's all the modules for how many elections and wayne got into, right. how many o, as in session nations of elected officials have we actually done re read war against the payment because they weren't lynch or maybe we're just saying that the russians available. right? when really ration really 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 in post sanctions banning in ports of cheese into rush and che isn't suffering from the new sanctions either or so as far as possible. pushing what seem to fax you weight. tabasco sauce made in the us. the sanctions are failed. ok. what's the

draft? yeah, well i think version of the same dollars. 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've decided to go with them. i want us to it. car service is like in the russian hinterland it's, it's almost like almost a cliche in the west, but this whole idea of with my to the last you brain in that some truth behind it. i mean think about it for the americans. $60000000000.00 for the reason. a package, not a lot of money. a lot of money stays within the united states in terms of the defense contract, as in the light and pulled out money that, you know, they fight sides like prolonged a wall to keep russia busy. you know, this is the,

ultimately, this what the west is doing is all about you know, trying to preserve west to take him and the, the registrars to make, you know, i'm not gonna listen to you. you care about me. if you care about the play. i wish somebody could just tell me why this is square herald patriot lynching, beating poverty. why supremacy is just the disgusting amber. the people of mississippi voted on a flyer, and 65 percent of the people voted to keep the car and fly our purposes to it's in the good name of the confederate. so,

because of these monuments that you see everywhere or not, they're not monuments to the confederate government. they're monuments to the, to the soldiers, to the veterans. you know, if we're going to be offended by everything, every negative part of our history, we have to get rid of everything the so i sort of get salt, salt, salt in the road, salt milk, so yeah, so the milk smell, the guys really me right of here yeah, the guys have to push, push to know that shipment is done. we got it. you got it. all right, let's see if we can push the james car. let's wrap it for sure to

stop. by. it looks like we're good to look at that. a look at this beautiful villas to, to ski 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 just like falling apart. so a lot of your neighbors coming to buy choose from you. yeah, i'm going by choose are masterclass. 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 that you find out in the middle of the country. so he'll bring home arrears . what do you mean under your okay, is there any upgrades or thursday?

morning rooms for you? that's it. what do you pay for a oil change day and like i'm dollars 10 dollars, 10 dollars. oh. maybe 5 dollars, 5 dollars. is it a good? let's go. the time is coming to try chase 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. rubbish down or talk to good morning. few minutes with this is romano like was really good. this is this is called to tell you guard so dried tomatoes, bell peppers sticking 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 into balls 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 here to rose the 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 this island and so far as i know in the next man after snowden, to get it. and it's american, the us embassies and 4 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 rate it. our house in 2002 in cyprus, they have a huge fall and my wife, they've interrogated me, they visited me and vote here in prison. personally, the i came, they tried to make deals. and also in erica 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 to say, hey, you know, i'm from the intelligence agency, 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. he already lived in europe the and you can prove this. yeah. you all there and then they said they told a newspaper, the indictment, they said that i physically kidnapped them, of the problem was, i was in the united states and neither was he the and just 2 months prior. the same judge who set this whole thing up, put him 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 want to return him. 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. i work the social media sometimes sidney daniel, your last quarter is your lovely thing. yeah, i'm a 49 year old dog man, but that's our social media works. right? yeah, i have a to 150 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 say this is actual insanity. chad sun now lives in the caribbean and he's still on the missing children's list. and chat is still on the wanted list. were you ever contracted by the government? no, going ever. 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 and 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 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. okay, 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 secretary 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 to give 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 time for this, but maybe they offer me the asylum 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 when 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 safe here for americans ask me all the time. if that covers the trust to be safe in america is to be more safe in the cities here than they are whole. 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 african american to say that that's really amazing to try are expected. i'm 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, it dropped out. i'd see the videos that all the time and they always ask the same thing. like me, chat has 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 them. so we decided to drive to the market and see for our search for month. oh wow. look at this place. funny. on the fish a bill next week, the figures, but yeah. yeah, they are just really nice. easy on. yeah. yeah, yes. i have come to spy on your final production, not everybody. and they have to made it here or not. they said russian take us a minute and let's take a look. i think there's okay, so tell me does that look like it's a main audience? the tomato, i like yeah, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, all the way down to me is tomatoes, tomatoes, then 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 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 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

. i've been living here. moscow is, feels very safe by people help us around the city all the time and moscow parts there everywhere. i mean, i've never had so much 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 area the get the city that they had a part for kids called world, the 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. but these theme parks, listen, i'm talking about a news aids here. just save. 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? 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 ok. 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 and media on tv, something and st. petersburg? no, because i don't want to move them off,

but most was great. but st. petersburg, my job, what do you like most about st. petersburg? why do you like this city? you know i've, i've traveled to almost 70 countries. i've lived and 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 there to stop sex to hold. the doors feels like you're living in a small town. there's something magical about the city to me, the happy here any time of the little i just want to come back here to my little village in the country road to deal with my goats and my dogs and goods and like change i love reading change. so i can describe that is where you feel like whole it don't have to be your land. they can be way where you are in wired away or an example to the people

in their plans. now i'm assuming you're going to go for citizenship. absolutely, and you're not looking back, this is how do i get it is 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 will absolutely mostly do it. ready ready the russian states never as tight as i'm one of the most sense community best.

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