where you can get saw the details of all the stories will follow except for watching by down the the i wanted to come here since i was 121 my grandfather told me his mom came from russia of iraq. 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 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

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 mix 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 russian to how you doing pretty good job was an i t program manager. he worked in any 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 because they're claiming the child's being abused by not being able to think it was uh, it's 6 states in less than 6 months past. they've lost that even a 5 year old kid can be taken away from their parents and take them to the hospital and shop a lot. yeah. that's just a reality we've of and people ask us. okay,

well i mean like, is it ramped and is it happening to like everybody have you been threatened with that? no, i'm not an idiot. i don't wait around for this stuff to continue to progress because that's what's been going on for the last several decades. a lot of people with traditional values wouldn't take the agenda, right? they wouldn't take the a slash, a lot of traditional teachers anywhere. the flushing traditional switches out of the system that's filling it up with cookies. and these people like child stressed out that being bullied. so they send them home with where maybe you are 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 across. and this is the, the article as well sir, who you,

these parents to the children were attending on cloth. literally this complete in version we're perfectly fine shaming you. if you're a straight white male, 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 you should think 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 into me. everybody's terrified there is no freedom of speech in america anymore. you say something 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 pores, 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, had somebody complain it was that frustrated for eating a pigs had, but it 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 a doctor or the cost? oh, okay. well, i told them, i mean this goes from 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 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 still it was like intense was, this is a good to russian. see, are you a little russian more tables? one of his passwords see is high chance we look at in the morning and make money can 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, breaking down much, much better to be here, we don't have any type 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. uh, this goes sideways for the whole world. hey, girls. oh, rush. see of this house. what are some of the learning flooding

the 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's to give us an interesting perspective on how things have changed here. one of the things is most known for is cheats. so today, hoping that we can see some cheese production and get to meet some animals on his farm. the tobacco excuse me, another american serious idea who is come? yeah, on the another yang. a story go built to go. i also 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 dare devil biker in 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 calves, 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? what are the leaders of 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, he couldn't imagine anything of the sorts. 3 things shooting at the white nose and it was there was little money for us was in the hospital as well in a barge 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,

and then 61 a senior road 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, and people, hey, if you could live in a rush, you could live anywhere in the world. it's not easy here. and of course it's hard at some of the language, some of the alphabet of the culture. a tamara shake hands under a doorway. never put a bunch of salt on the table when 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 this is what happened before when birth or the 15th june was probably reasonable garcey. there was not k c, a to common history info, draining 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 here was economy. anyone who had a different idea was calling is like the river stuff. the russians are guilty. they may have trump for president or hillary, clint bailey, they linked or e mails. it's all the modules for hang on. how many elections have we 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 lynch regular? just think that the russians available right when really rich and really like the biggest friends. i don't understand that at all. jay's business is going well and things have been going particularly well since a europe imposed sanctions banning in ports of cheese into rush and j as in suffering from the new sanctions either or so it's all tentative as possible but

seamless. intel don't wait. tabasco sauce made in the us. the sanctions are failed. ok. what's the address? yeah, well i think version of the same colors. same ice cream. you know, they owe your oil you made in the usa. even j will confirm. sanctions and russia have failed. he ordered this on amazon, 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 services like in the russian hinterland. the

look forward to talking to you all that technology should work for people. a robot must obey the orders given by human beings accept. we're such orders at conflict with the 1st law show alignment of the patient. we should be very careful about our personal intelligence. the point obviously is to trace a trust rather than fit the various jobs. i mean with artificial intelligence, we have somebody with theme and the robot most protective foam existence was alexis

oh, i sort of get sold salt. salt in the road. salt milk. uh, yeah. so the milk, now guys really give me a ride. if you get the 1st no, that should list. um you got it. you got a good. 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 sir, this is a beautiful village by the way. a lot of people in america think these villages are just like falling apart. so a lot of your neighbors coming to buy choose from you. yeah, i'm going by choose 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 that you find out in the middle of the country. so he'll be home 3 years. we're really not sure. okay. is there any upgrades for you? that's really what do you pay for oil change j and like 10 dollars, 10 dollars, 10 dollars?

oh, the maybe $5.00. $5.00 is a good. let's go. the time is coming to try chase cheese. he has a small shop and many kinds of different cheese j says there are 50 varieties in total. so it is just part of the natural process every day. turn it over the rubber down or talk to good morning. few minutes with this is romano like was really good. this is this is called to tell you guard so dried tomatoes, bell peppers speaking metal, metal, grumpy with rush. shockley. yes, i'm a sick man, but you know, don't hold it against the i'm heading to the northern capital of st. petersburg and american lives there whom the

f. b. i has been hunting for 18 years. he's on 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 it's up how you doing more? here's the role of the frozen as well. what you tomorrow i can't feel anything. oh no you came. i think you brought this weather with you man. yeah, i'm not good. it is so i don't know to go back and tell me a little bit about yourself. like, uh, what, what made you decide to come to russia? i received the asylum and so far as i know, the next man,

if there's no to get it. and that's american, the us embassies and 4 countries that come after me is wild. and so with a couple of theories, the one that most people come to me 1st is like, oh, there's just a bunch of bureaucratic mistakes, but there's no way they ran at our house in 2002 in cyprus. they have a huge file and my wife, they've interrogated me, they visited me and vote here in prison. personally, a guy came, they tried to make deals. and also from microsoft, i covered middle east and africa and i had several intelligence agency trying to recruit me to work for them. and when i kept saying no, they wanted to make an offer. i couldn't refuse and they have a history that to and is approvable, know because when they try and recruiters not like they leave behind a business card and 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 anyways. here lived in europe the and you can prove this. yeah. you all there and then they said they told a newspaper,

the indictment. they said that i physically kidnapped him, but the problem was i was in the united states and neither was the, the, and just 2 months prior. the same judge who set this whole thing up, put him on a plane using police to return to me because he was visiting his mother for the summer in the us and she didn't want to return 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 of ours, because when the guy does the sort of things, the only thing is ever fixed is massive publicity. i work the social media sometimes using the dance that you're gonna have to do is you're moving things and yeah, i'm a 49 year old, bad man, but that's actually for me to work. right? yeah, i have steve 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'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 to go to brands. 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 secretary 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 going to happen. we never discuss this stuff. my family would never give me information about that. i would never ask rush i may have and i don't have to do this, but maybe they ask me to sign them because i believe rushing us 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 censure. right, americans ask me all the time. if that covers a choice, be safe and americans to be more safe in the city is here. they are whole. i say

this philosophy, the sizes back home i had a console weapons permit i the 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. if an american to say that that's really amazing, are 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'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 has passed a lot of strange questions on tick tock. recently he was asked if it's true that russia had run out of tomatoes. the american media often writes nonsense stories about russian and people believe them. so we decided to drive to the market and see for our center to support. oh wow, look at this place. funny on

the fish. a bill next to the figures and fight. yeah. yeah. i think i used to be on your own. yeah. yeah. yeah. i have come to spy on your point to to everybody as a they have to man is here not. he 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. then all the way down to man estimate is to man is yeah, so it's all 1st of all, look at these because i've seen this based on uh on already was the look chose look right over here. a look at the gigs 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. last one. 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 is 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 important in america, not all, but it seems like a small portion i'd say are just brain i've never been felt safe for my entire life than living here. months ago is, feels very safe bank. 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 that i haven't given cities. yeah. they had a part for kids co worlds of fun, thousands of people over a decade, thousands of kids. it was being run by peter rank. and uh, they were just taking kids and it was never getting reported on like these kids are just disappearing. but these theme parks, listen, i'm talking about a news aids here. just save. yeah. in some ways i feel like i've already fulfilled my dream. i've gotten them out right now. it is just about stabilize, right? so that, that to me is the most important. people like want to talk about, you know, oh, it's a, it's a bad thing to do something if you're running away and 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 inviting 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 right. one thing has happened which is truly horrible. but since what the ninety's to to to 1000. 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 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 the same theaters are getting like the cities, you know, i've, i've traveled to almost 70 countries. i've lived in 12, and it's really my favorites. 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 the doors

feels like you're living in a small town. there's something magical about the city to me, the happy year in time. i just want to come back here to religion and country road to deal with like go to my dogs and gads and like change i love even change. so it's the camp described. there is where you feel like it don't have to be your land. it can be way or know where you're in wired 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. this is of you, i get it is i totally get it. i've got about 6 or 7 p the want to come visit this

year. right. but i want every single one of them. i said, you know, the worst part about visiting russia is when he gets 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 russian states never as, as tight as i'm one of the most sense community. most all sense and the in the 65 to 5 must be the one

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