you know, i was part russian. i didn't plan on staying this long and 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 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 mix cheese in the countryside. like chess 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 russian to 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 move 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 that he talk you and sources. no,

i think to be honest, we've 1st rich the same conclusion. some states have had issues where they've come in and they've removed the child from here because they're claiming the child's being abused by not being able to think it was uh, is 6 states in less than 6 months past these laws that even a 5 year old kid can be taken away from their parents and take them to the hospital and shop a lot. yeah. that's just the reality we've uh and people ask us 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. 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 it. i know you don't have a flash, a lot of traditional teachers anywhere. the 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 your upset cuz you're actually the wrong gender. 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 um, 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. oh, actually transgender crosses. and this is the, the article as well sir, holy. these parents to 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 materials and things. if you take care, you know, nobody could criticize or coming out to me. children who are behavior is let me see what she says. are you out of you online and she starts playing into me to

everybody's terrified. there's 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 putting 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 where all the 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 that press, read 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 because oh, okay, well i told him, 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 have like one of the best orthopedic surgeons. like 5 star level hospital room, 1300 bucks. yeah. my says pregnancy ended up being on medicare stay 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 listed as a good teeth russian. see, are you a little russian more tables? one of his best with see is high chance. look at me in the morning,

i'd make money hits h 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 all i know? yeah, no, i thought there was going to be a war and i didn't want to be sitting, you know, at home in the middle of kansas down the street from fort riley when the, let me just say that i feel a lot safer is here right? than i do in america, if actual world war 3 breaks out, much, much better to be here. we don't have any type of defense that could suit anything that i mean, right? something goes on over in the, in the states. it's over me, you know, i remember right before we left, we, uh, we heard reports, the russian nuclear sub just pops 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. oh rush. 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. he's a farmer 10 x 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 cheese. so today, hoping that we can see some change production man doesn't need some animals on his

farm. the bach, uh excuse me. another americans. so various ideas always 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 go 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 that, let's get in to cabs. 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 in mil? 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, he 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 as well. and the boards and everything was really bad to me. i couldn't imagine that another country surviving . i think americans would die hungry. i didn't leave here right away. i came for 10 days and 20 days and 40 days, 761, a senior. go go and more like home. i would start to go to other countries and i just want to get back home to russian. so it's home. i say to people, hey, if you could live in a rush, you can live 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 solves on the table. man, it's thousands of. i don't believe in them. i think divine touch 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 june was probably the garcey, there was not getting a drug communist room full draining all their games on the tv. they were the ones writing the programs right. better then there was a lot of people say to anybody you along here was economy. anybody out a different idea was economy news. i think this river stuff, the russians are guilty. they maybe trump for president or hillary clinton, they linked or e mails. it's all the russians form. and then how many elections have we got in june, right. how many sessions nations of elected officials have we actually done

re weighed war against the payment because they weren't in harbor lands, which are things that 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 as far as possible. busing was taking care of the weight. tabasco sauce made in the us. the sanctions of failed. ok. what's the address? yeah, well, i think version of 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 russian states never is as tight as i'm sort of the most sense community. most all sense. i'm at the in the 65 the case 195 must be the one else calls. question about this, even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin media mission, the state on rochester looting and split the r t spoke neck, keeping our video agency roughly all the band on youtube. the tv

service was for the question, did you say they replaced the the trumping ministration, just quickly realized endings, the ukraine complex is going to be difficult and time consuming. also there is a growing understanding that the end of fighting does not necessarily mean creating the conditions of the o. i sort of get salt, salt, salt in the roads, salt milk. uh yeah. so the milt smell guys really. me right of here. yeah. the guys have to push,

push, know that option is done. you got it. you got it. all right, let's see if we can force james kara with rocket, for citizens stop. far. looks like we're good to look at that. look at this beautiful villas to, to ski up the hill is the 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, go buy cheese 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. then really look too much different than an american

garage that you find out in the middle of the country. so he'll be home 3 is $1800.00. ok. is there any upgrades or warning rooms for you? that's it. what do you pay for oil change j and like 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 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 wow, it was really good. this is greer. this is going to tell him, guard so dried tomatoes, bell peppers speaking metal, metal, grumpy with russian. with shockley. yes. i'm a sick man, but you know, don't hold it against the heading to the northern capital of st. petersburg in american lives there whom the f. b, i has been hunting for 18 years. he's on into polls read 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, 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 to how you doing what years old 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 this island and so far as i know in the next man, if there's no need to get it. and that's american, us embassies and 4 countries that come after me is ms. wild. and so we have 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 file and my wife, they've interrogated me, they visited me and bought here in prison. personally as the i came, they tried to make deals. and also the microsoft. i covered 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 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 anyways. he already lived in europe the and you can prove this. yeah, i brought it in and they said they told the newspaper, the indictment, they said that i physically kidnapped him, but the problem was i was a 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 please return to me because he was visiting his mother for the summer in the us and she didn't wanna return him. and the judge said, nope, he said the police take away, put him 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 a far as the because when the f b i does the sort of things. it's the only thing that's ever fixed is massive publicity. i work the social media sometimes just any dance or you're going after doing sort of thing. and you know, i'm a 49 year old bad man, but social media works right? yeah, i have 150 children and he's 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 but my dad hollis and i'm not that's a 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 a 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 something that you is 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 floors 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 household for many years and they had basically, i guess what an american we called top secret type. ok. 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 to give me information. okay. it

was never gonna happen. we never discussed this stuff. my family would never give me information about that. i would never ask. russia may have and i don't have to do this, but maybe they offer me this island because i believe russian was part of about more case my chase 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 ask me all the time if that covers a choice, be safe and americans to be more safe in the cities here than they are whole. i say this a lot to people back home. i had a concealed weapons permit. i had to carry, hang on with me everywhere i went. and since i've been here, people ask 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 dryer is 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 to

. yeah, where is there a fee? yes, i drove out. i'd see them by videos 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 russia and people believe. so we decided to drive to the market and see for our search. for month. oh wow, look at this place. funny. uh, on the for the search. uh bill. me see the figure and 5. yeah. yeah. the i used to be on your own. yeah. yeah. yeah. i have come to spy on your plan to to get everybody as uh, if they have to meet us here or not. uh, they said russian. okay, just a minute and let's take a look. i think there's okay, so tell me does that look like that's a main audience?

the tomato i like. yeah. tomatoes played is tomatoes all the way down to me is tomatoes, tomatoes. that all the way down command estimate is tomatoes. yeah. so it's all, 1st of all, look at these because i've seen this based on uh on already was 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 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 asked why? 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 was on the forms for like mothers and america. yeah. so they talk about not letting their children i guess i'm not given

their the children a gender. oh yeah. that's so weird there. yeah. i mean, it's not like, yeah it's, it's amazing, really important 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 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 going to take the kids from the area that i haven't given cities. yeah. they had a part for kids, a 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. but these theme parks, listen, i'm talking about a news days here, just say, yeah, in some ways i feel like i've already fulfilled my dream. i've gotten them out right now. it is just about stabilize, right? so that, that to me is the most important. people like want to talk about, you know, oh, it's a, it's a bad thing to do something if you're running away, i get those comments on social media all the time. why did you run? mm. i didn't run. i left, you know that this horrible thing that happened with the crocus in writing and everybody is like calling me from the states. hey, are you ok? 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? i'm looking for a job. now that asylum i can work your legal way. so that's great. i'd like to find a public speaking job or maybe something a media 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? why do you like this city? you know, i've, i've traveled there almost 70 countries. i've lived in 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, hold the doors feels like you're living in a small town. there's something magical about the city to me, the snap is here any time i just want to come back here to my little village in the country road to deal with my goats and my dogs and cats and like change. i love eating change. so

it's the camp, this guy, and there is where you feel like it don't have to be your land. it can be where you are now where you're inquired away or an example to the people in their plans. now i'm assuming you're going to go for citizenship. absolutely, and you know, looking back, this is how you get it is i totally get it. i've got about 6 or 7 people, the one to come visit this year, right? but i wanted 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 the about you, joe, you want to be a russian with absolutely most of it. but the. ready ready the,

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