We have no idea what possible oligarch connections his wife may have in Russia. This may have been a simple decision to join the family business...
Yes, we have a negative change in culture, no doubt about it. But bailing out is not the answer. It is time for the silent majority, the traditionalists, to dig in their heels to resist and roll back the liberal tide. It can be done and will be done. The question is will the resistance to socialism/communism take effect soon enough. By that I mean before blood is shed. The time to stand up and be counted is now!!
No promised land but if you have a fixed passive income it makes sense to get some sort of visa allowing to stay for a few months and look around. It is not as sweet for a price as three years ago but certainly worth a look.
I bet Russia doesn’t punish you for having stealing water by having rain barrels on your property, or regulate your small garden. A good hardy individual could live quite well in the Russian countryside.
Russia appears to be mayhem at least on the highways.
On the other hand, they appear to have some relief from our constant bickering of race and sexual orientation etc.
The other draw is space. The US is becoming far too crowded and far too crowded with undesirables.
Other than that it is a semi benevolent dictatorship.
We then need to look at the many Russian tourist births in USA...
https://www.france24.com/en/20190125-rich-russians-flock-florida-deliver-american-babies
That's just one reason, and it's thoughtful. I would guess most expats have economic reasons or are just somewhat adventurous.
Strongly recommend Victor Herman’s COMING OUT OF THE ICE. It is the most extraordinary read.
“Nay impossible”?
He wrote “nay impossible”?
I’m glad he moved to Russia.
He’s one of them Nay Sayers.
He goes around saying “nay” all the time.
Now, he’ll have to start saying “Nyet”.
some other system that devalues the place of the individual in the political and economic destiny of a nation.
Read no further. For these roaches, the term 'communal' justifies anything and everything, so long as they call all the shots.
My Grand Father and my parents in their life times saw a lot of people leave America for whatever reasons.
They said that was a good thing for America. If they were unhappy here, then they should go to another country. However, they could not come back as citizens. They could only visit with strict time lines, like no more than 30 days.
When so many losers were leaving during the Nam War and going to Canada, my parents said that they and their spawn would destroy Canada with their liberalism. That seems to be happening.
SOME Positives in Russia...
> No illegal immigrants
> No BLM crowds
> No mobs looting stores
> No danger of getting shot during robberies
> Plenty of Vodka available
Emigrating
Since this written from the American perspective, shouldn’t it be “emigrating”?
You immigrate into a country, you emigrate out of one.‘Course you can’t have one without the other . . .
We don’t have a lot of experience of emigration from America, but we suspect that a billion people would immigrate into America if given the chance.
Russia has always been a nation of slaves
Yes, not the promise land:
Residents of Apollonovka, a village of 960 in Omsk oblast, have taken the unusual step of producing a video appeal to Vladimir Putin demanding that he intervene to address their lack of gas, water, roads, medical care and Internet connectivity. They say that “the last straw” was the end of bus service to the district center 55 kilometers away.
We may be able to exist without gas, water, roads, Internet, and medical care,” the villagers say in their video; “but we cannot sit still when we are deprives of the elementary opportunity to get out of the village.
That additional demand is intriguing because it suggests that the power of the Internet in Russia is far broader than many suspect. Even those who don’t have it want it; and if they aren’t connected with the world wide web, they want to be, a remarkable change in public needs and wants in less than a decade.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/02/we-have-no-gas-water-roads-or-internet.html
Thirty-seven percent of Russians life on 19,000 rubles or less a month, Rosstat says, a figure that works out to a subsistence of ten US dollars or a less a day, 23.2 percent live on less than 15,000 rubles a month (under seven dollars a day); and 12 percent have incomes under 10,000 rubles a month (five dollars a day).
Only 11 percent, have incomes of 60,000 rubles or more a month (30 dollars plus a day)
According to surveys conducted by The Conference Board and Nielsen consulting companies at the end of last year, “23 percent of Russians do not have money even for clothes. All of their income goes for the most necessary expenditures like food and payments for communal services,” the Moscow paper says.
And that figure is up by four percent from a year earlier, when only 19 percent of Russians were in that position. It is thus no surprise, Novyye izvestiya continues, that Russians “do not believe they can cope with inflation which in January alone was one percent” over all and as much as 20 percent for some basic products.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/02/nearly-40-percent-of-russians-subsist.html
https://newizv.ru/news/economy/08-02-2019/tsifra-dnya-37-rossiyan-zhivut-menshe-chem-na-10-v-den (Russian)
Putin told the Federal Assembly that Russian regions, not his government, must ensure that all schools have indoor toilets.
http://windowoneurasia2.blogspot.com/2019/02/putins-words-about-lack-of-indoor.html
https://versia.ru/putin-vse-rossijskie-shkoly-dolzhny-byt-obespecheny-vodoj-otopleniem-i-tualetami (Russian)
John "Israel controls everything" Mearsheimer? So what, he's blaming the Israelis for what's going on in the United States? I didn't know that Mearsheimer even claimed to be a conservative.
The "palaeos" have found their new Paul Findley.