of the the of wanted to come here since i was 121 of my grandfather told me his mom came from russia, but we were, 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 god's 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. the joe is an i

t program manager. he worked in the 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. 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'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 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,

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 see a thing, 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? 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. screw put out my name, where i worked, who the phone numbers to like, oh, had somebody come play, the tread tread for eating a pigs had. but a here in russia,

you can say what you think were out loud and there is 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. you're talking about it, it was fine whenever you're moving on the what about health carey, are you all worried about getting like the kids to the doctor or the cost? oh, okay. well, i told them, 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 still it was like intense. wow. so 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, i'd make money, he'd say, he what were your thoughts before coming to russia with a special military operation? 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 with 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 kind of defense that could shoot anything down. i mean, right?

something goes on over in the interstate. 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. the girls rush . so you love 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 so back up it's good to meet another american. so serious idea who is come. yeah and the another yang of your story. go build 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 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 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, 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 sort of humanity. 3 things suiting at the white house. and it was, there was no money for us, was in the hospital as well in a board and everything was really bad. you mean, 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, and then 61 a senior roland road and more like home. i would start to go to other countries and i just want to get back home to russia. 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. a. deborah shake hands under a doorway. the boxes on the table man is 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 16th to was problem reasonable. garcey there was not k c a to comment as an info draining the 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. anyone who had a different idea was calling is like this never stuff. the russians are

guilty. they may have trump for president or hillary clinton when they linked or e mails. it's all the modules for hang on. how many elections have we got in june? right. how many o? as in session nations of elected officials, have we actually done 3 grade war against him because they weren't lynch regular? just think that the russians available, right when really wishing really 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 che isn't suffering from the new sanctions either or so as far as possible. i seen wishing to fax you weight sanction tabasco sauce made in the us. the sanctions are

failed. ok. what's the job? yeah, well i think version of the same dollars. 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 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 to see what car service is like in the russian hinterland. what else seemed wrong? just don't you have to shape house to come after kids and engagement a close to trail. when so many find themselves will support, we choose to look so common ground the

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to a month various consequences can a year up to $3800000.00 people die from starvation and disease caused by mail nutrition. the old great britain itself had enough resources to overcome the disaster. at the same time, 170000 tons of australian wheat made its way fast starving in the debris. it is aisles. i hate indians. they are a beasley people with a beastly religion. the famine was their own fault for breeding like rabbits, british prime minister, winston churchill commented on the reports of the tragedy. the famine of 1943 became the climax in the british policy of genocide against the indian population. according to historians, from 12 to 29000000 people overall died from starvation alone during the reign of the british in india. the oh, i sort of get sold. sold so no. rhodes

saw middle side. yeah. so they built snow. the guys really me right of here. yeah. the guys have to push, push them, know that shipment and stuff. you gotta you gotta good. 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. look at this beautiful village to wow. look for a ski up the hill. this 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 coming to 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. doesn't 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 it. what do you pay for oil change j. and like i'm dollars 10 dollars, 10 dollars. oh. or maybe $5.00. $5.00 is a good. let's go, the time is going to try and 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 to next week. this is romano like was really good. is good year. this is going to tell you and guard so dried tomatoes, bell peppers, the metal metal, crappy with rush shockley. years of a sick man, but you know, don't hold it against the 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 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 is 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? what years old, or was it frozen as well? you can feel anything. oh you came. i think you brought this weather with you man. yeah, i'm not good. it is so i don't know. panic. so 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 snow to get it. and that's american, the 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 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 fall on my wife. they've interrogated me, they visited me and vote here in prison. personally, the i came, they tried to make deals and also never ca, 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 a neighbor 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 anywhere is here to lived in europe the and 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 a, put him on a plane and then he the same judge, basically the foundation for get up and, 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. he's done news interviews on american television saying that he was never kidnapped. and it's all a far as the 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 old man, but that's also for me to work. right? yeah, i have a little steve to these by now and that's how it works. i had to order 2 police officers to physically movies. my mother came to 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 children's list. and chat is still under one's head list. were you ever contracted by the government? no, never. do you think maybe and this is just me being curious, views, things 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 coverage. 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 white dream that thought i could somehow black me on my family to get information. okay. it was never gonna 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 this, but maybe they offer me the asylum because i believe russian knows far 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 asked me all the time if that covers that yours to be safe and americans to be more safe in the city is here. they are whole. i say this philosophy, the slides 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 you, 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 to . yeah. where's the feet? yes, it dropped out. i see the videos that all the time and they always ask the same thing . like me chat is asked a lot of strange questions on tick tock. recently he was asking 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 markets and see for our center supposed month. oh wow, look at this place. funny on the for the fish, you'll see the fisher and 5. yeah. yeah. the i used to be on your own. yeah. yeah. yeah. i have come to spy on your to,

to everybody as a they have tomatoes here or not. 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 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. 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. a look at the gary is that amazing. got 32 boys, one and one of the belly. ok, we're good. i keep counting kids. i'm so paranoid because of america and america,

i'm sorry. what? i'm like, tucked them into their jacket and walked on. yeah. see they're 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 talked 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 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 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 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 rates. 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 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 happens 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? all right, 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? 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 in media on tv, something and st. petersburg. no, because i don't want to move them off but most was 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 to almost 70 countries. i've lived and 12, and it's really my experience in an entire world. i mean, the people here as you see, if you even slightly brush into somebody there to something to 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 on the line while i just want to come back in tomorrow. religion and

country road to deal. ready with my goats and my dogs and cats and like change i love reading 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, where you are in wired away 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 p on 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 lease 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 the, the. ready the the, the, [000:00:00;00]

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