starting award, the problem is moscow cube and washington wants different outcomes. the of wanted to come here since i was 121 my grandfather and told me his mom came from russia of and 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. i 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 i've never been here 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 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 with 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 russian to how you doing very good the.

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 are 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 of and people ask us. okay, well i mean like, is it ramp and is it happening to like everybody have you been threatened with that?

no, i'm not an idiot. 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 take the a slash, a lot of traditional teachers anywhere. they flushing traditional switches 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 where maybe you're upset cuz you're actually the rooms and just like maybe you're 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 on 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 art at all. oh, actually transgender classes. and this is the, the article as well sir, who you, these parents to the children were attending on cost, literally this complete inversion. 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 or for me not 3 children who are behavior is what she says, are you out of you online 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 that. 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 hand. this is like the most traditional in the angle world, both the boys had and then there i be decked with bays in rosemary and somebody tag this animal rights activist group. put out my name where i worked, who the phone numbers to like, oh, my complaint was credited for eating a pigs had,

but a here in russia, you can say what you think were out loud. and here's 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 the doctor or because oh okay, well i told them, i mean this goes to 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 says pregnancy and

a thing 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 still it was like intense wiley, lucel's equity russian see, are you a little russian boy tables? one of his passwords. t is high chance we look at in the morning. i'd make money. he'd say t 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 oh, 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 breakdown much, much better to be here, we don't have any kind of defense that could suit anything. 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 of this goes sideways for the whole world, the euro, russian. so you love this house. what are the learning funny the, so we're on the way so, mean, so,

but he's pretty famous here in russia. he's a farmer and 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 is most known for is cheap. so today i'm hoping that we can see some cheese production and get to meet some animals on his farm the tobacco it's good to meet another american. so very yeah, on the another yang of your story. we're going to go real 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 up sort of submarine, which he had more to in france and bought land in the countryside. then he built

a house and moved here. is that, let's get rid of 2 calves, one boil in 3 years. we'll 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, he couldn't imagine anything of the sorts of your money. 3 things suiting it. why knows? and it was, there was little 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 it right away. i came for 10 days and 20 days and 40 days, and then 61 a senior role and more like home. i would start to go to other countries and i just want to get back on to rush. so it's all 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 at some of the language. some 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 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 urges people to leave, but that's what happened before. when birth or the 16th to was problem reasonable. garcey, they're all in this case a to communist of info training, all their games on the tv. they were the ones writing the programs right. better that 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 never stuff. the russians are killed tv, maybe trump, for president or hillary, clint bailey. they linked our emails and saw the russians form and how many elections and we got in june. right? how many o as a session, nations of elected officials have we actually done re weighed war against the paper because they weren't lynch or things of the russians available? right. when really wishing me 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 attractive as possible. fussing wishing to wait.

tabasco sauce made in the us. the sanctions are failed. ok. what's the address? yeah, well i think version of the same cars. 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 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. the

oh, i sort of get salt. salt. salt in the road. salt milk. uh yeah. so the milk now guys ready? me right of here. yeah. the you guys have to push. push. no, that should list. um we got it. you got it. all

right, let's see if we can 1st james car. what's rocket for shit, the stop. all right, 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 just like falling apart. so a lot of your neighbors come and they buy choose from you. yeah. go buy jeans or master class. they learn how to make jeans. oh, they come and learn how to make the james dropping his car off for an oil change. this is a russian brides look at that. doesn't really look too much different than an american garage that you find out in the middle of the country. so he'll bring home reward every mean under your ok.

i'm going to do now going to room for you. that's it. what do you pay for oil change day and like $10.00? $10.00. $10.00. oh, maybe $5.00. $5.00. is it a good? let's go. the time is coming to try j as cheese 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 down, talk to good morning. to next week. this is romano like was really good. is this is going to tell you guard so dried tomatoes, bell peppers,

the metal metal. crappy 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 polls, a red list. they tried to extradite him to the united states from different countries for types, you know, 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 rush 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 the role of 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 either. 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, the next man after snowden to get it. and that's american, us embassies and 4 countries that come after me is wild. and so we have a couple of theories, the one that most people come to as far as 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. they've interrogated me, they visited me and bought here in prison. personally, the i came, they tried to make deals. and also whenever, from 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 every history that you 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 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 here to lived in europe the and you can prove this. yeah. are you all there? 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. it is massive publicity. i work the social media, sometimes it's any dance or you're going after doing sort of the things and yeah, i'm a 49 year old bad man, but that's awesome for me to work. right? yeah. i have, you know, a 150 to these by now and that's how it works. i had to order 2 police officers to physically these my mother took me on a plane back to my dad hollis. and i'm not that big. 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 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 is 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. okay. 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 get 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 exist, 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 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 secure. right, americans asked me all the time if that covers a towards be safe and americans to be more safe in the cities here than they are at home. i say this a lot of people like back home i had a concealed weapons permit. i had to carry, hang on a me everywhere with them 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 average 3 times a year in new york. it's just, it's really crazy and i still in the metro is here and people like where the people to. yeah. where's the feet? yes, i drove the videos down a 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 tomato. 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 next to the future in the 5. yeah. yeah. i think i used to be really nice people and yeah, yeah, yeah. i have come to spy on your friends without everybody as a they have tomatoes here. not a said russian. okay, just a minute and let's take a look. i think there's okay, so tell me does that look like the tomato audio? 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 demand is yeah,

it's all 1st of all, look at these because i've seen this based on on already was 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. ok were just 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 branded 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 the time. and most of the parts there 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 calm down here. the given cities. yeah. they had a part for kids called world of fun, thousands of people over a decade, thousands of kids. it was being run by peter with that um 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 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. 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 uh, one thing has happened which is truly horrible. but since what the 90s 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? so i am looking for a job now that i'm asylum i can work here legally. so that's great. i like to find

a public speaking job or maybe something and media 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 to almost 70 countries. i've lived in 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 stop saying they hold a doors, feels like you're living in a small town. there's something magical about the city to me, the snappy here in time. i just want to come back in to religion and country road to deal with my goats and my dogs and jazz and like change i love reading change so it's i can't describe that is where you feel like it don't have to be your land. it can be where you're now 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. the sound 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 100 percent. so it's, you want to be a russian citizen. he asked me to evaluate you want to be a russian with absolutely, most of it the. ready the

release of russian states never is as tight as i'm sort of the most sense community . best of all sense and the same assistance must be the one else holes. question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin move. yep. mission, the state on the rush, putting s r t sports net keeping our video agency roughly all band on youtube tv services. for what question did you say to stephen twist, which is the

we are the window sill on country club and i am theater of the moon. but today we have a conversation around the country that i describe. now. i was going to attend this . i had region that is book enough of us. so molly news yet in order to understand the car, in grand zones in that region, with some cars at the rise of the river loose, it is important to understand the history and particularly the history of french quarter an ice vision in the region. history tells us that phones was permanently

present in violin, in 18841880 5 getting the petition. and became one of the major colonized as in the continent of africa. but the french colorized nation was unique when day and the in to the countries that we had describe as the saw head region, the intention like everyone else was never to leave on the whole i defy, got in 1900 on sixty's was one that was false on them, because of the reality that i had taken place during the 2nd world war. and when in 1958 shows, the votes became the president of friends and drew what is described. the goal is to constitution. and the wave of in defenders thought.