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Russia Looks to Populate Its Far East. Wimps Need Not Apply
nytimes.com ^ | JULY 14, 2016 Continue reading the main storyShare This Page Share Tweet Email More | ANDREW HIGGINS

Posted on 07/14/2016 12:42:46 PM PDT by Trumpinator

KAMEN-RYBOLOV, Russia — Standing ankle deep in mud in a swampy grassland more than 4,000 miles from his home, Yuri A. Bugaev surveyed a mosquito-infested wasteland that the Russian government is offering to would-be pioneers under its own modern-day version of the 1862 Homestead Act in the United States.

“This is not really what I had in mind,” said Mr. Bugaev, who had traveled across seven time zones from St. Petersburg, Russia, to scout the possibilities for settlers in the country’s sparsely populated Far East, a territory roughly two-thirds the size of the United States.

The nine Far Eastern regions targeted for settlement in the government’s land giveaway, which began on June 1, encompass more than a third of Russia but are home to only 6.1 million people. This is just 4 percent of the country’s population and compares with the 110 million Chinese living across the border in the three provinces that make up Manchuria.

Mr. Bugaev is a dedicated, if largely sedentary, Cossack, a centuries-old fraternity of Slavic warriors, freebooters and freedom-loving rebels. A romantic throwback to earlier generations of Cossacks who settled and secured the borders of the Russian empire, he sees getting his Cossack brethren and other Russians to move out east as the only way to keep mostly empty Russian lands safe from China.

For years, he said, he had dreamed of Russia embracing, or rather re-embracing, the pioneer spirit, and he was delighted by the Kremlin’s backing of a program meant to reassert the country’s manifest destiny as a continent-straddling power.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: move; pioneer; pushoff; putinistas; realmen; russia; siberia; toughguys
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1 posted on 07/14/2016 12:42:47 PM PDT by Trumpinator
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To: Trumpinator
Step 1 send a few of these


2 posted on 07/14/2016 12:45:17 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: Trumpinator

Think how valuable this land would be if global warming really came true. We need to deport our leftist true believers there.


3 posted on 07/14/2016 12:45:23 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: Trumpinator

Ample parking for over 5 million Syrians!


4 posted on 07/14/2016 12:46:06 PM PDT by Zuse (I am disrupted! I am offended! I am insulted! I am outraged!)
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To: Trumpinator

Go East, Young Man.


5 posted on 07/14/2016 12:46:42 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Trumpinator

Most people live in European Russia west of the Urals.

If you’re hardier, you can live in Novosibirsk or Vladivostok.

Few Russians consider living in Siberia. Freezing winters there.


6 posted on 07/14/2016 12:46:47 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: Donglalinger

“Come and keep your Comrade warm.”


7 posted on 07/14/2016 12:47:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Trumpinator

“This is not really what I had in mind,”...

There’s the understatement of the year! :)


8 posted on 07/14/2016 12:48:20 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: goldstategop

Moscow ain’t exactly Miami Beach, neither.


9 posted on 07/14/2016 12:48:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Trumpinator

Send the Syrians there with shelter, equipment and medication. Problems solved!


10 posted on 07/14/2016 12:48:39 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Trumpinator

“one free hectare, about 2.5 acres, a person.”

Up the offer by 100 fold and I would be interested enough to marry a russian woman and give it a shot.


11 posted on 07/14/2016 12:49:52 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Vigilanteman

Yes, all those who have been saying they will leave the USA if Trump is elected! They could create their perfect commune haven.


12 posted on 07/14/2016 12:50:05 PM PDT by NEMDF
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To: lee martell

Hmm...just send them there


13 posted on 07/14/2016 12:51:35 PM PDT by gr8eman (Don't waste your energy trying to understand commies. Use it to defeat them!)
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To: Trumpinator

Ping for later.


14 posted on 07/14/2016 12:52:31 PM PDT by Oberon (John 12:5-6)
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To: lee martell

Well that’s fine. As long as you also make the practice of islam punishable by death.

Otherwise, I would never advocate that for our Russian neighbors.


15 posted on 07/14/2016 12:55:01 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (Three Percenter - Cruz/West)
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To: Rebelbase

Oooh wow, a whole 2.5 acres per person.

They are going to fail with a policy like that.


16 posted on 07/14/2016 12:55:13 PM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: goldstategop

Irkutsk is a very nice compromise.


17 posted on 07/14/2016 12:55:25 PM PDT by Psalm 144 (We are at that point, where we stand with Leonidas, or slither with Ephialtes.)
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To: Rebelbase

I would be interested enough to marry a russian woman

As long as she looks like the one in post #2!


18 posted on 07/14/2016 12:58:49 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: goldstategop

Perfect for these “off the grid” types that you see in those Alaska reality series.


19 posted on 07/14/2016 1:05:01 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I read this story published somewhere else, a month or two ago.

Ridiculous program. I wouldn’t go there for one those tiny plots; anyone who does is a fool. I wouldn’t go for a hundred times that.

I might go, for a thousand, if I got to pick my own plot, got immediate title to it instead of having to wait five years to see if they wanted to take it away from me after all my work, and a guarantee that the government regulators would leave me alone.

This program is so dumb that you would almost think that 0bama put it together.


20 posted on 07/14/2016 1:06:46 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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