or the the i wanted to come here since i was 121 my grandfather told me his mom came from russia. that was part russian. i didn't plan on staying as long as 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 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. 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 and russian to how you doing. pretty good. the joe is an i t program manager. he worked in any large companies including microsoft, but he gave ups 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 with 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 a 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. so ended up with cuckoos. and these people likes child stressed out that being bullied. so they send them home with where maybe you are upset cuz you're actually the rooms and you 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 art at all. oh,

actually transgender across. and this is the, the article as well sir, who you, 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 male, is you have a lot of kids, people to walk up to my wife, make rude comments are available, say the as many of the things. if you didn't hear, you know, nobody could criticize their 1st german coming out 3 children who were 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 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. both the boys had and hand bare. i b decked with bays in rosemary and somebody tagged

this animal rights activist group. put out my name where i worked, who the phone numbers to like, oh, my complaint was treacherous for eating a 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 care you, are you all worried about getting like the kids to a doctor or because oh, okay. well i told him, i mean that's gonna spend 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 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 was like, intense was the looses equity russian see, are you a little russian boy, tables one of his passwords. t is high chance we look at in the morning and 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 gap. 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. hey girls. oh rush. so you love this house. what are the

learning funny? yeah. 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 1990. so he's to give us an interesting perspective on how things have changed here. one of the things he is most known for is cheats. so today, hoping that we can see some change production and get to meet some animals on his farm. the tobacco excuse me, another american. so very idea who was gum? yeah, on the another yang. a story. we're going to go build to go. all right, awesome. it's hard to believe now that j was a famous shift to even go to the rolling stones. he used to run several restaurants

in moscow. he was also a dear double biker and 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 that, let's get rid of 2 cabs, one boil in 3 years. we'll have lead milk. i agreed and there we go. 3 years later the rope starts and what are you going to do, which are related to milk? that's how j started 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 at the white nose 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, 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

they was 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 russia. so it's home, i say, and people, hey, if you could live in a rush, you could leave it anywhere in the world. it's not easy here. i mean, of course it's hard, it's one of the language, some of the alphabet of culture stammer shaking hands under a doorway. the boxes 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 purchase people to leave. but this is what happened before when birth or the 15th june was probably reasonable garcey. there was not case a drug, communist room,

full draining all their gains on the tv. they were the ones writing the programs, write better that 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 guilty. they may have trump for president or hillary, clint daily. daily e mails. it's all the russians for hang on. how many elections have wayne got in june? right. how many sessions nations of elected officials have we actually done re, re war against the paper because they weren't which are things that the russians available. right. when really wish 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 choosing to rush and j as in

suffering from the new sanctions either or so is the change if it's possible. i seen where seem to wait. tabasco sauce made in the us. the sanctions are failed. ok. what's the address? 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've decided to go with them. i want us to car services like in the russian hinterland, holiday season upon us. we've decided to get well and truly if the festive stories and come to a real winter wonderland. i can no place fits of discussion better than the

northern russian of lake off colorado like the oh i sort of get salt. salt. salt in the road. salt milk. so yeah. so the milk, snow guys really? me right of here. yeah. the you guys have to push, push no, that option list. um, 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. 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 cheese 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 and really look too much different than an american garage. they find out the middle of the country. so he'll be home for 3 years. would really mean under your ok. this is the answer for you. that's it. what do you pay for an oil change? okay. and like 10 dollars, 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 down, talk to good morning to next week. this is romano like was really good. this is good. this is called to tell you and 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 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 years old, the role of the frozen as well while you're at the can feel anything the. 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 if you can 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 me 1st is 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 vote here in prison. personally as 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 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 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 time you can prove this. yeah, i agree 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 me 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 televisions the never to death. and as all of our spe, 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 you see the dancer you're going after doing sort of thing and yeah, i'm a 49 year old man, but that's options for me to work. right? yeah, i have 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'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, 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 and 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 guess what an american be called top secret type. 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 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 proof of 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 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 safe. here right, americans ask me all the time if that covers that yours to be safe and americans to be more safe and the city is 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 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 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'd see the videos that all the time and they always ask the same thing. like me chat is past a lot of strange questions on tick tock. recently he was fast. 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 as for the month . oh wow, look at this place. funny. uh,

on the fish. uh you'll see the figure and the 5. yeah. yeah. i think i used to be really nice people. yeah. yeah. yeah. i've come to spy on your phone to to get everybody as uh, they have tomatoes here or 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 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 command estimate estimate is yeah. the, this is so it's all 1st of all, look at these because i've seen this based on uh on already was look joe, look right over here or look at the gates is that amazing?

got 32 boys, one and one 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. either 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 really in america, not all, but it seems like a small force and i'd say are just framed i've never been felt safe for my entire life. the living here moscow is, feels very safe by people help us around the city all, all the time and moscow 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 cities. yeah. they had a park for a kid called world of fun, thousands of people over a decade, thousands of kids. it was being run by peter range. 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 and now it is just about stabilizing, 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. 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 like to find a public speaking job, or maybe something and media on tv, something and st. pete over know, because i don't want to move the mazda from mazda is great, but st. petersburg, my job. what do you like most about st. petersburg wedding? like the cities, you know, i've, i've traveled to almost 70 countries, i've lived and 12, and it's really my experience and an entire world. i mean the people here as you see, if you even slightly brush into somebody that are something safe,

they hold the doors feels like you're living in a small town. there's something magical about the city to me, the i'm happy here any time i just want to come back here to my new religion and country road to deal with my goats and my dogs and jazz and like change i love reading 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 a way or in wired way or an example to other 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 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 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, the russian states never is as tight as i'm one of the most sense community best. most all sense and the in the system

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