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Russia To Build 'Migrant Village' for American Expats
The Moscow Times ^ | 5/11/23

Posted on 05/14/2023 1:03:33 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative

Russian authorities will launch construction of a village outside Moscow for conservative-minded Americans and Canadians next year, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday.

Russia has for years positioned itself as a bastion of "traditional" values in contrast with Western liberalism as its relations with the West have deteriorated over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Timur Beslangurov, a migration lawyer at Moscow’s VISTA Foreign Business Support, claimed that “around 200 families” wish to emigrate to Russia for “ideological reasons.”

“The reason is propaganda of radical values: Today they have 70 genders, and who knows what will come next,” RIA Novosti quoted Beslangurov as saying, echoing President Vladimir Putin’s frequently deployed grievances against Western countries’ comparative gender freedom.

“Many normal people emigrate and are considering Russia, but they’re faced with huge bureaucratic problems with Russia’s migration law,” he said.

He said the Moscow region administration has greenlit the construction of the expat village and that it will be financed by the relocating families.

The lawyer further claimed without offering evidence that “tens of thousands” of foreigners without Russian roots would like to move to Russia for similar ideological reasons.

The construction of a migrant village for Americans and Canadians has not yet been publicly announced by officials.

Russia, which has ranked among the worst countries for expats in recent years, experienced a major downturn in tourism and other foreign arrivals after the invasion of Ukraine.

Still, Federal Security Service (FSB) data recorded an uptick in visits for tourism, work, study and business to Russia in early 2023.


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To: Wilderness Conservative

Very smart.


21 posted on 05/14/2023 2:33:33 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: noiseman
Freepers and other “conservatives” who are cheering on the Ukraine war should really take a pause to evaluate how easily they’ve allowed themselves to be manipulated into supporting the globalist/woke agenda.

Well said.

As an aside, I suspect a lot of the Boryslavs and tlozos posting that crap on here are eastern Europeans with chips on their shoulders. They probably ran when things got hot in their own countries (maybe Bosnia, Serbia, Albania…) and now troll forums like FR with propaganda to assuage their cowardice.

22 posted on 05/14/2023 2:34:04 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: dominusobiscum

Uhh probably not very degraded, seeing as it’s been going on since the dawn of time? You can only keep what you can defend. If someone else takes it from you and it’s impossible to get it back, it becomes theirs.


23 posted on 05/14/2023 2:34:21 PM PDT by This_Dude
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To: All

At last! At last! Comrades our yearning to return to the Homeland is finally here.


24 posted on 05/14/2023 2:34:27 PM PDT by BipolarBob (I was going to start procrastinating this year, I just haven't got around to it.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/05/11/russia-to-build-migrant-village-for-conservative-american-expats-a81101


25 posted on 05/14/2023 2:34:31 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: Wilderness Conservative

They should defend the right of everybody to own guns to attract the best people.


26 posted on 05/14/2023 2:36:25 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Hi.

Even if the Russian government wants to give me a Zil, dacha, 20K Rubles a month and a concubine I still won’t go.

5.56mm


27 posted on 05/14/2023 2:37:22 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho have got to go)
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To: airplaneguy

A friend of mine relocated to Costa Rica after his wife died.

He loves it there.


28 posted on 05/14/2023 2:41:51 PM PDT by Texas resident (We are living through Barak's fundamental transformation)
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To: TTFX

Thanks for posting the link. Not sure how I screwed that up.


29 posted on 05/14/2023 2:53:45 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

” Personally, Id rather go to eastern Russia because it’s so sparsely populated.”

I’ll pass. I would rather fight for the USA and reclaim it from its overlords, than live in a country where the viewpoints are alien to the Western mind. Russians are different.


30 posted on 05/14/2023 2:54:16 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: Texas resident
A friend of mine relocated to Costa Rica after his wife died.

Costa Rica could be nice.

Russia would not be my cup of tea at all.

31 posted on 05/14/2023 2:56:11 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: ought-six

What’s stopping me? I wouldnt feel right about it unless I fought to save what I have here. I havent had the opportunity, yet.


32 posted on 05/14/2023 2:56:23 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: PIF
Pootie FR trolls can sign up to be closer to your beloved hero/boss/idol. There is likely huge discounts for them because of all the hard work they have put in by creating disinformation, repeating Russian talking points, making things up whole-cloth, and occasionally, being nasty.

I wondered who would be the first Youkazoid to say something ignorant like that.

Well, here's Ben Garrison's demolition of the Youkazoids' favorite false equivalency which is, "If you don't want US money going to Youcrayne you're automatically a Putin Puffer. If you hate Zelenskyyyy you're a Putin Puffer. If you don't want the US to get involved in the war on Youycrayne's side then you're a Putin Puffer. So on and so forth, ad nauseum.

Slavo Youcraney!

Pfft

33 posted on 05/14/2023 2:57:32 PM PDT by Rocco DiPippo
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To: PIF

Trolls exist because they’re fed. Notice this wasnt posted as News.


34 posted on 05/14/2023 3:04:26 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Thunder90

Then why isn’t the Pedo besties with Putin ?

Hint: It’s because Putin isn’t a Communist or globalist pedo.


35 posted on 05/14/2023 3:07:30 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: This_Dude

Might makes right is immoral.


36 posted on 05/14/2023 3:10:57 PM PDT by dominusobiscum (A Christians true heart can be revealed by how they treat others anonymously on discussion forums.)
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To: Allegra

Costa Rica is a great place for American expats. I recall hearing that citizens are required to vote.


37 posted on 05/14/2023 3:11:00 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Texas resident

It’s a popular destination for expats. There’s a few countries that allow foreign nationals to have the same rights as citizens..i.e. you can own property and have private property protections, legal rights, atc...Costa Rica is one of those. And they don’t require giving up US Citizenship.


38 posted on 05/14/2023 3:14:34 PM PDT by airplaneguy
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To: Wilderness Conservative

With all that’s happening in the Western nations, I’ve often thought if Russia would become more western, and stop aligning with Red China, and extend more rights to its citizens, that it and eastern Europe could become a home for many in the US, Canada, Western Europe, Australia and NZ who object to their nations being overrun with third world illegals.


39 posted on 05/14/2023 3:17:39 PM PDT by Will88 ((The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.))
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To: noiseman

Putin dumped the mother of his children for a gymnast his daughter’s age. Everything is fake and corrupt in Putin’s “Christian” Russia.

The EU/WEF HQ built Putin’s army with purchases of Russian energy. That’s a very odd thing to do if the goal is to “get rid of him.”

The reality is Putin and the WEF are Anti American partners. They both seek our destruction. We can see them confederate on removing Trump’s Iran policies, the climate change hoax, etc. Don’t be duped by Kremlin gaslighting, FRiend. The truth is plain to see here.


40 posted on 05/14/2023 3:23:02 PM PDT by lodi90
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