Nazdarovya, Comrade!

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.

Wow, we could lose half this forum!

One can only hope…….

I can't see conservative Americans ever moving to Russia. What would be much more palatable would be for Socialist Americans to move there.

not for the Russians.

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Originally posted by lavaca:
I can't see conservative Americans ever moving to Russia. What would be much more palatable would be for Socialist Americans to move there.

Your self professed king of tough Steven Seagal? Putin ass kissers are rife in the GOP.

I struggle to see any attraction to anything Russia/ Russian.

Me personally? I can see a retirement in Mexico, Argentina or a few other south American nations, some of the Mediterranean, maybe some of southern Africa, certainly western Canada of if not Alaska, North Dakota.

Politics aside, what is there attractive in the USSR?

I assume this is just idiotic propaganda but it made me wonder.

I wonder if it will have a Trump tower?

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Originally posted by Scott King:
I struggle to see any attraction to anything Russia/ Russian.

Me personally? I can see a retirement in Mexico, Argentina or a few other south American nations, some of the Mediterranean, maybe some of southern Africa, certainly western Canada of if not Alaska, North Dakota.

Politics aside, what is there attractive in the USSR?

I assume this is just idiotic propaganda but it made me wonder.

Novaya Zemlya fishing?

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Originally posted by TomP:

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Originally posted by Scott King:
I struggle to see any attraction to anything Russia/ Russian.

Me personally? I can see a retirement in Mexico, Argentina or a few other south American nations, some of the Mediterranean, maybe some of southern Africa, certainly western Canada of if not Alaska, North Dakota.

Politics aside, what is there attractive in the USSR?

I assume this is just idiotic propaganda but it made me wonder.

Novaya Zemlya fishing?

Well,.....I looked,......

Two nuke weapon test sites I think.

I mean,...you know,....... Still struggling.

Any ideologue considering this move would do well to first read Victor Herman's biography entitled; "Coming Out of the Ice"