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

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 god's mixed cheese in the countryside. like chad who has been granted political asylum because he's being persecuted by the f b. i like an american family. that recently moved to russia with 6 children the year we are happy to be here. this is my friend joe. a few months ago he immigrated to russia with his large family. now i'm on the way to visit him. i want to find out why he decided to move here and how he likes it in russia. the,

you know, the, how you 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 are about to have a 7. so apparently they had a very good reason to relocate. did he talk you interested? no, i think to be honest, we 1st rich the same conclusion. some states have had issues where they've come in and they've removed the child from here because they're claiming the child's being abused by not being able to think it was uh, 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 chop them up. yeah. that's just the reality we've uh and people ask us okay, well, i mean like, is it ramped and is it happening to like everybody have you been threatened with

that? no, i'm not an idiot. i don't wait around for this stuff to continue to progress because that's what's been going on for the last several decades. a lot of people with traditional values wouldn't take the agenda, right? they would, okay. i know they flash a lot of traditional teachers anywhere. they flashing traditional switches 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'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 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 to actually um, transgender costs. and this is the advantage of our classes, or who we are, these parents to the children were tending all costs,

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 about will say the menu, the things you should take care. you know, nobody could criticize or for women coming out to me, children are well behaved. and so let me see what she says are you out of your mind and she starts lane and to me, everybody is terrified. there is no freedom of speech in america anymore. you say something really mean about eligibility 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 hands. this is like the most traditional in the angle world, the just 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,

had somebody complain that was that pressure for eating a pigs had 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 by whatever you're moving on the. what about health? carey, are you all worried about getting like the kids to a doctor for the costs? oh, okay, well i told them i'm and 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 have like one of the best orthopedic surgeons. like 5 star level hospital room search, a 100 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 so it was like, intense was loose, is a good to rush and see how your little russian more tables. one of his passwords t is high to look at in the morning. i'd make money, he'd say, he what were your thoughts before coming to russia with a special military operation and how did you feel? were you worried that there was going to be like more on the outskirts of moscow or you? i 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 secretary suit. anything that i mean, right? something goes on over in the, in the states. it's over me. you know, i remember right before we left, we, uh, we heard reports, the russian nuclear sub just pops his head up right off the coast of dc. hey, we're right here, just so you know, don't forget that we're right here. so there's nothing that you're going to defend against. this goes sideways for the whole world. oh rush. so you love this house. what are some of the learning funny

and so we're on the way to meet somebody who is pretty famous here in russia. he's a farmer and ex pats has been here since the 19 ninety's, so he should 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 cheese production and get to meet some animals on his farm. the back of the excuse me another american serious idea of who is go. yeah. oh no another. yeah. boy, we're going to go go to go. all right, awesome. it's hard to believe now that j was a famous shift to even to, to the rolling stones. he used to run several restaurants in moscow. he was also a dear double biker in radio host, but he gave it all a sort of submarine which he had more in france and bought land in the countryside

. then he built a house and moved here to live scan, to cabs. one boil in 3 years will have lead milk. i agreed and there we go. 3 years later the rope starts and what are you going to do? which really does a milk? that's how jay 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 sorts. 93 things, shooting at the white nose and it was there was little money for us was in the hospital's wall in a barge and everything was really bad. you mean? so i couldn't imagine that. another country surviving. i think americans would die hungry. i didn't receive a right away, i came for 10 days and 20 days and 40 days they was 61, a senior logo 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're currently in a rush, you can leave it anywhere in the world. it's not easy here. i mean, of course, it's hard. it's one of the language of the alphabet of culture. several shake hands under a doorway. the boxes solves on the table. man is thousands of them. i don't believe in them. i think 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 urges people to leave, but this is what happened before when birth or the 15th june was probably that will guarantee their own. this k c a to communist room, full draining all their games on the tv. they are the ones writing the programs write better than read was of love. it was the to anybody you

a long here was economy. anybody out of different idea was economy, news never stuff. the russians are killed. tv rave. trump, for president or hillary clinton daily e mails. it's all the russians form and how many elections have we got into right. how many cars, especially sions, of elected officials, have we actually done re, re war against the paper? because they weren't a horrible in which the things that the russians available. right? when really wish 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 as far as possible. fussing. why seem to fax you weight?

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 it. car service is like in the russian hinterland. the it was widely thought the year 2024 would be to multi was that it was however, in ways few had predicted the world did change in this ear though hardly for the

better. what are the highlights? 10 low lights, the oh, i sort of get salt. salt. salt in the road. salt milk. yeah. so the milk, snow. guys really?

me right of here. yeah. the you guys have to push. push. no, that you got it. you got it. all right, let's see if we can 1st james car. let's wrap it for sure to 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 chains or

master class. they learn how to make g o, they come and learn how to make g for james, dropping his car off for an oil change, this is a russian brides. look at that and really look too much different than an american garage. they find out the middle of the country, so he'll bring home 3 years. we're really not. sure. okay. is there any upgrades or warning room for you? that's really what do you pay for oil change j. and like i'm dollars 10 dollars, 10 dollars? oh. maybe 5 dollars, 5 dollars is 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 or talk to good morning to next week. this is romano like was really good. this is good. this is going to tell you guard so dried tomatoes, bell peppers speaking. metal metal, crappy with russian 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 here. so 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. 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 the 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 the 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 on my wife. uh, they've interrogated me. they visited me and vote here in prison. personally,

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 june. 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 anywhere is here to lived in europe. 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 them, of the problem was that was in the united states and neither was he the just 2 months prior, the same judge and 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 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 and i work the social media. sometimes the dancer, your laughter 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, 50 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 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. 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. 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 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 there's, but maybe they offer me the asylum because i believe russian as 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. for americans ask me all the time if that covers that yours to 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 everywhere when, 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 or 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 is here and people like where the people who. yeah, where's the feet? yes, it dropped kind of do 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 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. the funny uh on the fish a film next to the fishers, but yeah, yeah. i think i used to be on your own. yeah. yeah. yeah. i've come to spy on your friends without you know, everybody as

a they have to made it here or not. they said russian can i get somebody that let's take a look. i think there's okay, so tell me does that look like the tomato it in the middle? i like yeah, tomatoes made is tomatoes all the way down to me is tomatoes, tomatoes. then all the way down command estimate estimate is. yeah. so it's all, 1st of all, look at these because i've seen this based on uh already. well good luck. jos. look right over here on the market. the gigs is that amazing. got 32 boys, one and one of the belly. okay, we're going to 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, 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 framed 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 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. they had a part for a kid called world of fun. thousands of people over a decade,

thousands of kids. it was being run by peter risk. and they were just taking kids and it was never getting reported on like these kids are just disappearing for these theme parks this on talk about 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? 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 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 your legal way. so that's great. i'd 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 job. what do you like most about st. petersburg wadding like this city? 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 has something to hold a doors feels like you're living in a small town. there's something magical about the city to me, the map here any time on the left you want, i just want to come back in to my new religion and country road to deal with

my goats and my dogs and dads and like change i love reading change so it's all i can describe is where you feel like it don't have to be your land. it can be way around or where you're in minor and away or an example to the people that are there 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 is. i totally get it. i've got about 6 or 7 people. the 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 with a 100 percent. so it's, you want to be a russian citizen. he asked me to the by

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