[Tofurious] I wanted to come here since I was 12,
when my grandfather told me that his mom came from Russia,
that we were… that I was part Russian.
[Tofurious] I didn't plan on staying this long.
[Tofurious] I was going to look around.
[Tofurious] I was going to see if it was for me.
[Tofurious] If I like it, maybe I'll look at some property,
come back in a few more years after I'm retired,
and then just finish out life in Russia.
[Tofurious] But then I came and then I was like, I don't ever want to go home.
[Tofurious] That's how I felt about Russia.
[Tofurious] I love it so much here that I don't even want to leave.
[Tofurious] I just want to travel around Russia. I have no desire to go to any other country.
[Tofurious] I've never been happier in life than I am here in Russia.
TOFURIOUS MAXIMUS CRANE
INDEPENDENT JOURNALIST, US
[Tofurious] I have only lived here a few months.
MOVED TO RUSSIA IN 2023 DUE TO HIS VIEWS [Tofurious] But I wanted to tell you what fascinates me about Russia.
[Tofurious] And share the stories of other foreigners who live here.
Iike Jay, who worked as a chef and now raises goats and makes cheese in the countryside.
[Tofurious] Like Chad, who has been granted political asylum
because he's being persecuted by the FBI.
[Tofurious] Like an American family that recently moved to Russia with their six children.
WHY I MOVED TO RUSSIA
[GEO] MOSCOW
[Jozef] Here we are. Happy to be here.
[Tofurious] This is my friend Joe. A few months ago, he immigrated to Russia with his large family.
[Tofurious] Now I'm on my way to visit him.
[Tofurious] I want to find out why he decided to move here and how he likes it in Russia.
[GEO] MOSCOW REGION
[Tofurious] Hey, Joe, what do you know? How are you doing? [Jozef] Pretty good.
[Anna] Thank you! It’s so good to see you. That looks magnificent.
[Tofurious] Joe is an IT program manager. He worked in many large companies, including Microsoft.
[Tofurious] But he gave up everything and moved to Russia with his wife and six children.
[Tofurious] And they are about to have a seventh soon.
[Tofurious] Apparently, they had a very good reason to relocate.
[Tofurious] Did he talk to you into Russia?
[Anna] No. I think, to be honest, we both reached the same conclusion.
[Tofurious] Some states had issues where they removed the child,
because they're claiming the child's being abused by not being able to…
[Jozef, IT Program Manager] I think it was in six states in less than six months
passed these laws that even a five-year-old kid could be taken away from their parents
and take them to the hospital and chop them up.
[Jozef] That's just the reality.
[Jozef] And people ask us, okay, well, I mean, like, is it rampant?
[Jozef] Is it happening to like everybody?
[Jozef] Have you been threatened with that? No, I'm not an idiot.
[Jozef] I don't wait around for this stuff to continue to progress
because that's what's been going on for the last several decades.
[Anna] A lot of people with traditional values wouldn't take the agenda.
[Anna] Right? They wouldn't take it. And they flagged a lot of traditional teachers anyway.
[Anna] They're flushing traditional teachers out of the system,
they're filling it up with cuckoos.
[Anna] And these people like child stressed out, they're being bullied.
[Anna] So they send them home with, well, maybe you're upset cause you're actually the wrong gender.
[Anna] Like, maybe you're actually... there's something deeper going on here.
[Anna] And they actually condition these children to believe...
and it's going on and the amount of schools that have had secret classes.
[Anna] One recently where they were having art classes after school every day for a year.
[Anna] And they were actually…
[Jozef] They weren't doing art at all.
[Anna] They were actually transgender classes. And this…
[Jozef] They told their parents they’re art classes.
[Anna] For a whole year, these parents thought their children were attending art class.
[Jozef] Literally this complete inversion.
[Jozef] We are perfectly fine shaming you if you're a straight white male, if you have a lot of kids.
[Jozef] People can walk up to my wife, make rude comments.
[Anna] People say the rudest rudest things.
[Jozef] If she had pink hair, you know, nobody could criticize her for hair.
[Anna] I had women coming up to me, children are well-behaved.
[Anna] And this woman came, she goes, ‘Are you out of your mind?’
[Anna] And she starts laying into me.
[Jozef] Everybody's terrified. There's no freedom of speech in America anymore.
[Jozef] You say really mean about LGBT organization or anything like that,
you’ll be doxxed for life, people will hunt you down. No joke.
[Jozef] I took a picture of Christmas Day because we had a boar's head.
[Jozef] This is like the most traditional in the Anglo world.
[Anna] Sing the song!
[Jozef] «Boar's head in hand bring I bedecked with bays and rosemary».
[Jozef] And somebody tagged this animal rights activist group,
put out my name, where I worked, the phone numbers to call customer’s complaints...
[Anna] Oh, we had death threats.
[Jozef] Death threats for eating a pig's head!
[Jozef] But here in Russia, you can say what you think, out loud.
[Jozef] And it is the most relieving thing in the world.
[Jozef] You actually like, Hmm… This is actually really enjoyable.
[Jozef] You can make jokes about this sort of stuff.
[Jozef] Nobody would, you know, cancel you or try to doxx you or anything like that.
[Jozef] You just joke about it and it’s fine, whatever, moving on.
[Tofurious] What about health care? Are you all worried about getting like the kids to a doctor or the costs?
[Jozef] Oh, okay. Well, I tore my meniscus at the end of last year.
[Jozef] And I had to go get a surgery.
[Jozef] 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 five star level hospital room - 1300 bucks. Yeah.
[Anna] My first pregnancy ended up being NICU stay. And I think the bill was…
[Jozef] $800,000. We got a big discount on it, because it was self-pay, it was like $80,000.
[Jozef] And then we had the medical sharing, but still it was, like, intense.
[Tofurious] Wow. It's delicious. [Anna] Like good tea?
[Tofurious] Russian tea. Are you a little Russian boy?
[Anna] Тea was one of his first words. [Tofurious] Тea?
[Anna] …in his highchair, he would look at me in the morning as I make mine, and he'd say, «tea».
[Tofurious] What were your thoughts before coming to Russia,
with the special military operation, how did you feel?
Were you worried that
there was going to be like war on the outskirts of Moscow?.. Or you…
[Jozef] I thought there was going to be a war
and I didn't want to be sitting at home in the middle of Kansas down the street from Fort Riley when that war broke out.
[Jozef] Yeah, let me just say that I feel a lot safer here than I do in America.
[Jozef] If actual World War Three breaks out, much, much better to be here.
[Jozef] We don't have any kind of defense that could shoot anything down.
[Jozef] I mean, if something goes on over in the States, it's over.
[Jozef] You know, I remember right before we left,
we heard reports that a Russian nuclear sub just popped its head up right off the coast of D.C.
[Jozef] Hey, we're right here. Just so you know, don't forget that we're right here.
[Jozef] So there's nothing that you're going to defend against.
[Jozef] This goes sideways for the whole world.
[Tofurious] Hey, girls, how do you like your house?
[Girl] I like my house. It’s like a Russian fairytale.
[Tofurious] A Russian fairytale?
[Tofurious] So you love this house?
[Girl] I like it here.
[Tofurious] What Russian words do you know?
[Girl] Banan, milk, apple
[Anna] Florine, how do you say «I live in Moscow?»
[Girl] I live in Moscow
[Tofurious] So, we're on the way to meet somebody who's pretty famous here in Russia.
[Tofurious] He's a farmer, an expat who's been here since the 1990s.
[Tofurious] So he should give us an interesting perspective on how things have changed here.
[Tofurious] One of the things he's most known for is cheese.
[Tofurious] So today I'm hoping that we can see some cheese production
and get to meet some animals on his farm.
[GEO] MOSCOW REGION
[Tofurious] Dog!
[Tofurious] It’s good to meet another American.
[Jay] Yeah, I got no idea who was coming.
[Tofurious] Yeah, yeah, another yank.
[Tofurious] Stop!
[Jay] We're going to go milk the goats. [Tofurious] All right. Awesome.
[Tofurious] It's hard to believe now that Jay was a famous chef
who even cooked for the Rolling Stones.
[Tofurious] He used to run several restaurants in Moscow.
[Tofurious] He was also a dare-devil biker and radio host.
[Tofurious] But he gave it all up, sold his submarine, which he had moored in France,
and bought land in the countryside.
[Tofurious] Then, he built a house and moved here.
[Jay Close, Cheesemaker] My girlfriend said:
«Let's get two calves, one bull, and in three years, we'll have meat and milk».
[Jay] I agreed, and there you go.
[Jay] Three years later, the milk starts.
[Jay] And what are you going to do with 30 liters of milk?
[Tofurious] That's how Jay started making cheese.
[Tofurious] And would you believe it, he became one of the most famous cheesemakers in Russia.
[Tofurious] Although when he first came here,
he could not even imagine anything of the sort.
[Jay] I got here in ‘93. Tanks shooting at the White House, and it was…
[Jay] There was no money for asphalt, and hospitals were falling apart,
and everything was really bad.
[Jay] I mean… I couldn't imagine another country surviving.
[Jay] I think Americans would die hungry.
[Jay] I didn't live here right away.
[Jay] I came for ten days, then 20 days, then 40 days, then 6 months, a year.
[Jay] Grow, grow and more like home.
[Jay] I would start to go to other countries and I said, Damn! I just want to get back home to Russia!
[Jay] So, yeah, it's home.
[Jay] I say to people, «Hey, if you can live in Russia, you can live anywhere in the world».
[Jay] It's not easy here. I mean, of course it's hard.
[Jay] It's another language, it's another alphabet, another culture.
[Jay] Never shake hands under a doorway,
never put a box of salt on the table,
man there's thousands of them.
[Jay] I don't believe in them. I think… I touch wood because it's like a habit.
[Tofurious] I asked Jay if he was afraid to stay in Russia.
[Tofurious] After all, our countries have a very troubled relationship.
[Tofurious] The US Embassy regularly urges people to leave.
[Jay] But this has been happening before my birth.
[Jay] I was born in 62. It was probably the McCarthy era.
[Jay] This nutcase saying, «Hey, the communists are infiltrating аll America, it’s on the TV.
[Jay] They're the ones writing the programs!»
[Jay] «Better dead than red» was what a lot of people said.
[Jay] Anybody who had long hair was a commie.
[Jay] Anybody who had a different idea was a communist.
[Jay] I think this s*** never stops.
[Jay] The Russians are guilty. They made Trump the president
or Hillary Clinton, they leaked her emails.
[Jay] That’s all the Russians’ fault.
[Jay] Hang on. How many elections have we gone into?
[Jay] How many coups and assassinations of elected officials have we actually done?
[Jay] We made war against ??? because they would grow our bananas.
[Jay] We made the Americans think that the Russians are the enemy.
[Jay] When really we should be like the biggest friends.
[Jay] I don't understand that at all.
[Tofurious] Jay's business is going well.
[Tofurious] And things have been going particularly well
since Europe imposed sanctions banning imports of cheese into Russia.
[Tofurious] And Jay is not suffering from the new sanctions either.
[Courier] Ozon delivery [Jay] Thank you!
[Courier] All the best! Goodbye
[Jay] Sanctions. Sanctions.
[Tofurious] Wait! Tabasco sauce. Made in the USA.
[Tofurious] Sanctions are failed.
[Jay] Okay, what's it? Monterra.
[Jay] Same logo type, same colors, same ice cream.
[Jay] Oreo.
[Tofurious] Oreo, yeah. Made in the USA.
[Tofurious] Even Jay will confirm sanctions in Russia have failed.
[Tofurious] He ordered this on Ozon which is where I am ordering things.
[Tofurious] Jay had to take his cars to the garage today for an oil change.
[Tofurious] And I've decided to go with him.
[Tofurious] I want to see what a car service is like in the Russian hinterland.
[Jay] I said to get salt. Salt
[Tofurious] Salting the road. Salt melts snow.
[Jay] Guys, ready?
[Tofurious] We may ride with you?
[Jay] Yeah… You guys have to push.
[Tofurious] Push? All right. I’m down with that.
[Jay] We shouldn’t have stopped.
[Tofurious] You got it. You got it, Jay.
[Tofurious] All right, let's see if we can push Jay's car out.
[Tofurious] Let's rock it. We shouldn't have stopped. All right. It looks like we're good.
[Tofurious] Look at that.
[Tofurious] Look at this beautiful village, too. Wow!
[Tofurious] All right, let's ski up the hill.
[Tofurious] This is amazing, this place.
[Tofurious] This is a beautiful village, by the way.
[Tofurious] A lot of people in America think these villages are just like falling apart.
[Tofurious] So a lot of your neighbours come in, and they buy cheese from you?
[Jay] Yeah, people come, buy сheese or master class. They learn how to make cheese.
[Tofurious] Oh, they come and learn how to make cheese?
[Jay] Yep.
[Tofurious] So Jay's dropping his car off for an oil change. This is a Russian garage.
[Tofurious] Look at that. Doesn't really look too much different than an American garage,
though you find out in the middle of the country.
[Jay] All right, I'm off. Should I call you?
[Mechanic] That's it, you can go. [Jay] OK.
[Jay] If you have the time… the door doesn't open there.
[Jay] If you have the time. This one. Got it?
[Jay] I'll be in touch.
[Tofurious] What do you pay for an oil change, Jay?
[Jay] 10$. [Tofurious] 10$? 10$?!
[Jay] Maybe $5. [Tofurious] $5?
[Jay] If he is in a good mood. Let's go.
[Tofurious] The time has come to try Jay's cheese.
[Tofurious] He has a small shop with many kinds of different cheeses.
[Tofurious] Jay says there are 50 varieties in total.
[Jay] Every day turn it over, rub it down, talk to it... 'Good morning.
[Jay] See you next week.'
[Jay] This is Romano, like Parmesan.
[Tofurious] Wow. It was really good.
[Jay] This is Gruyère. This is called 'Italian garden.'
[Jay] Sun-dried tomatoes, bell peppers. Stinging nettle.
[Tofurious] Stinging nettle?
[Jay] 'Krapiva' in Russian.
[Jay] ...with chocolate.
[Jay] Yes, I'm a sick man, but, you know, don't hold it against me.
[Tofurious] I'm heading to the northern capital of St. Petersburg.
[Tofurious] An American lives there whom the FBI has been hunting for 18 years.
[Tofurious] He's on Interpol's red list.
[Tofurious] They tried to extradite him to the United States from different countries 4 times.
[Tofurious] He now lives in Russia. I've been following his story for a while,
and I can finally personally ask why the FBI is after him.
[GEO] SAINT PETERSBURG
[Tofurious] I'm in Saint Petersburg, Russia, right now, my first time,
and it's probably the coldest day since I've arrived in Russia.
[Tofurious] I am feeling it to my bones right now.
[Chad] Yo… Dude, what's up?
[Tofurious] How are you doing?
[Chad] Help me, I'm freezing
[Tofurious] You're frozen as well?
[Chad] Help me, I'm freezing!
[Tofurious] Can't feel anything?
[Chad] Oh, yeah, you came. I think you brought this weather with you, man.
[Chad] Take it back.
[Tofurious] Maybe so...I don’t know [Chad] Take it back.
[Tofurious] So tell me a little bit about yourself.
[Tofurious] Like, well, what... what made you decide to come to Russia?
[Chad] I received asylum and so...
as far as I know, I'm the next man after Snowden to get it that's American.
[Chad Hower, Fugitive and Blogger] The U.S. embassies in four countries have come after me, it's... it's wild.
[Chad] And so I have a couple of theories.
[Chad] The one that most people come to me first is, like:
'Oh, there's just a bunch of bureaucratic mistakes,' but there's no way!
[Chad] They raided our house in 2002, in Cyprus.
[Chad] They have a huge file on my wife.
[Chad] They've interrogated me.
[Chad] They visited me in Bulgarian prison personally.
[Chad] FBI came, they've tried to make deals.
[Chad] And also, when I worked for Microsoft, I covered the Middle East and Africa,
and I had several intelligence agencies trying to recruit me to work for them.
[Chad] And when I kept saying no, they wanted to make an offer I couldn't refuse.
[Chad] And they have a history of that too.
[Chad] And is it provable? No, because when they try and recruit you,
it's not like they leave behind a business card and say:
'Hey! You know, I'm from the intelligence agencies.'
[Chad] But very clearly, there were three recruitment attempts.
[Tofurious] Why is it that the FBI is looking for you?
[Chad] On the website they say that I illegally retained my son, which is nuts,
because I had custody of my son.
[Chad] Anyways, he already lived in Europe.
[Tofurious] And you could prove this?
[Chad] Yeah, I сan prove it. And then they said, they told the newspapers in the indictment,
they said that I physically kidnapped him.
[Chad] But the problem is, I wasn't in the United States and neither was he.
[Chad] And just two months prior, the same judge who set this whole thing up,
put him on a plane using police to return him to me
because he was visiting his mother for the summer in the US,
and she didn't want to return him.
[Chad] And the judge said 'nope!' He sent the police, take him away, put him on a plane.
[Chad] And then he, the same judge basically, the foundation for kidnapping
and that whole thing's been dismissed, but the feds won't dismiss their end.
[Tofurious] And he's your strongest witness in this case?
[Chad] And he's 27 now. Yeah. He's done news interviews on American television
saying that he was never kidnapped, and it's all a farce.
[Chad] Because when the FBI does these sort of things,
the only thing that's ever fixed it is massive publicity.
[Chad] And I worked in social media. Sometimes you see me dancing and after – doing some goofy things,
and yeah, I'm a 49-year-old bald man. But that's how social media works.
[Tofurious] Right, yeah.
[Chad] I have, you know, 150—200 million views by now. And that's how it works.
[Alex] Had to order 2 police officers
to physically remove me from my mother
and put me on a plane back to my dad.
[Alex] I'm Alex, and I'm not missing!
[Tofurious] This is actual insanity.
[Tofurious] Chad's son now lives in the Caribbean,
and he's still featured on the list of missing children.
[Tofurious] And Chad is still on the wanted list.
[Tofurious] Were you ever contracted by the government?
[Chad] No, no, no.
[Tofurious] Do you think maybe... And this is just me being curious,
do you think that perhaps
something that you may have worked on for one of these companies
might be a reason for any of this?
[Chad] No, I never worked on anything that was secretive or anything sort of that.
[Chad] I have built software that's been on the space station and is used by the government.
[Chad] But it's communication software.
[Chad] 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 sweep the floors or anything.
[Chad] And it's not like they could possibly get access to military technology.
[Chad] They were engineers.
[Chad] They had it in their brains.
[Chad] So these were close family members
and we lived in the same household for many years.
[Chad] And they had basically, I guess,
what an American be called top secret type clearance, okay?
[Chad] And it became pretty evident that
somebody in the American Intelligence Agency had some kind of wet dream
that thought I could somehow blackmail my family to give me information.
[Chad] It was never gonna to happen.
[Chad] We never discussed this stuff.
[Chad] My family would never give me information about that.
[Chad] I would never ask them.
[Chad] Russia may have, and I don't have proof of this,
but maybe they offered me the asylum,
because I believe Russia knows more about my case than I do.
[Chad] 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.
[Tofurious] Do you feel safe ever returning to the United States of America?
[Chad] No.
[Tofurious] And you feel safe here?
[Chad] Oh, absolutely. I mean, it's extremely safe here.
[Chad] And Americans ask me all the time if they come here as a tourist, to be safe,
and Americans will be more safe in the cities here than they are at home.
[Tofurious] I say this a lot to people back home.
[Tofurious] I had a concealed weapons permit.
[Tofurious] I had to carry a handgun with me everywhere I went.
[Tofurious] And since I've been here, people ask me:
what about your gun rights? What's the need for it?
[Tofurious] You don't need a gun here.
[Chad] And for an American to say that, that's really amazing because you're expected…
[Chad] I have a friend that is from New York, and he lives here.
[Chad] And he says he got mugged on average three times a year in New York.
[Chad] It's just... it's really crazy. And I film the metro here and people are, like:
'Where are the people pooping? Where's the graffiti? Where's the drug addict?'
[Tofurious] I do metro videos all the time, and they always ask the same thing.
[Tofurious] Like me, Chad is asked a lot of strange questions on TikTok.
[Tofurious] Recently, they asked if it was true that Russia had run out of tomatoes.
[Tofurious] The American media often write nonsense stories about Russia,
and people believe them
[Tofurious] So we decided to drive to the market, and see for ourselves.
[Tofurious] Spasibo! Wow, look at this place.
[Voice] Where are they from? [Chad] I'm from USA.
[Voice] A spy? [Chad] No.
[Tofurious] What did he say? [Chad] He asks if you're a spy.
[Tofurious] Yes… Dah!
[Chad] No, I'm a spy. He's not, but I'm a spy.
[Tofurious] I have come to spy on your food production, comrade.
[Chad] Everybody asked if they have tomatoes here or not.
[Chad] They said Russians can't get tomatoes.
[Chad] Let's take a look. I think there's...
[Tofurious] So tell me… Does that look like a tomato to you?
[Chad] The type of tomato that like. Yeah.
[Chad] Tomatoes, tomatoes. [Tofurious] Tomatoes all the way down.
[Chad] Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes... [Tofurious] Then all the way down.
[Chad] Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes. Yeah.
[Man] Hello, America!
[Tofurious] It's all fresh. Oh, look at these pickles.
[Tofurious] I've seen this place on a... I'm already in love.
[GEO] MOSCOW
[Tofurious] Look, Joe, look right over here.
[Tofurious] Whoa! Look at the gates. Is that amazing?
[Tofurious] We got three, two boys, one... and one in the belly. Okay, we're good.
[Tofurious] I keep counting kids.
[Tofurious] I'm so paranoid because of America.
[Tofurious] In America, somebody would have, like, tucked them into their jacket and walked away.
[Jozef] Yeah, these are very high swings. Papa has to be careful not to push you too high.
[Tofurious] Your wife was telling me, when she's on the forums for, like, mothers in America.
[Tofurious] That they talk about not letting their children…
[Tofurious] I guess not giving their children a gender.
[Jozef] Oh, yeah. [Tofurious] That's so weird, man.
[Jozef] Yeah. I mean, it's not like... It's amazing.
[Tofurious] It's, like, young parents in America, not all, but
it seems like a small portion, I'd say, are just brain-dead.
[Jozef] I've never been... felt safer in my entire life than living here.
[Jozef] Moscow is... feels very safe.
[Jozef] Like, people help us around the city all, all the time.
[Jozef] And Moscow parks… Well, they're everywhere.
[Jozef] I mean, I've never had so much for my kids to do, ever.
[Tofurious] In America the kids, when they're by themselves,
you, like, panic, like, where's their parents?
[Tofurious] Somebody’s gonna to take their kids.
[Tofurious] Calm down. Nothing's happening.
[Jozef] In Kansas City, they had a theme park for kids called 'Worlds of Fun.'
[Jozef] Thousands of people over a decade, thousands of kids…
[Jozef] It was being run by a paedo ring.
[Jozef] And they were just taking kids, and it was never getting reported on.
[Jozef] Like, these kids were just disappearing in these theme parks.
[Tofurious] That's what I'm talking about. And these children here are safe.
[Jozef] Yeah.
[Jozef] In some ways, I feel like I've already fulfilled my dream.
[Jozef] I've gotten them out. And now it is just about stabilizing.
[Tofurious] Right.
[Jozef] So that... that to me is the most important...
[Jozef] And people want to talk about, you know:
'Oh, it's a bad thing to do something if you're running away'...
[Tofurious] I get those comments on social media all the time.
[Tofurious] 'Why did you run?' I didn't run. I left.
[Jozef] You know, this horrible thing that happened with the Crocus, right?
[Jozef] Everybody is, like, calling me from the States.
[Jozef] 'Hey, are you okay?'
[Jozef] And I'm, like: 'What do you mean? Should I be calling you every week?'
[Tofurious] Right.
[Jozef] 'Every day?' [Tofurious] Exactly.
[Jozef] 'Oh, you live in Chicago? Should I call you on Saturdays,
in the morning? Are you okay?'
[Tofurious] Right.
[Jozef] One thing has happened, which is truly horrible.
[Jozef] But since what, the 90s? The 2000s?
[Jozef] And, and you're calling me to see if I'm okay?
[Jozef] No, I'm concerned about you.
[GEO] SAINT PETERSBURG
[Tofurious] What are your future plans?
[Chad] I'm looking for a job. Now that I have asylum, I can work here legally, so that's great.
[Chad] I'd like to find a public speaking job or maybe something in media, on TV.
[Chad] Something in St. Petersburg though, because I don't want to move to Moscow.
[Chad] Moscow is great, but St. Petersburg is my town.
[Tofurious] What do you like most about Saint Petersburg? Why do you like this city?
[Chad] You know, I've travelled to almost 70 countries, I've lived in 12.
[Chad] And it's really my favourite city in the entire world.
[Chad] I mean, people here, as you see,
if you even slightly brush into somebody, they're going to stop and say 'excuse me.'
[Chad] They hold the doors... Feels like you're living in a small town.
[Chad] There's something magical about this city to me.
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JAY CLOSE CHEESEMAKER
[Jay] I'm happy here.
[Jay] Any time I go anywhere, I just want to come back here,
to my little village in the country.
[Jay] Hello, girls!
[Jay] With my goats, and my bulls,
and my dogs and cats, and my cheese. I love eating cheese.
[Jay] So yeah, it's home.
[Jay] I can't describe that.
[Jay] Home is where you feel like home.
[Jay] It doesn’t have to be your land.
[Jay] It can be where you're loved, or where you're admired,
where you're an example to other people.
[Tofurious] That's where we're going...
[Tofurious] Your plans now... I'm assuming you're going to go for citizenship.
[Jozef] Absolutely.
[Jozef] And you're not looking back? This is home?
[Tofurious] That's how I feel. I get it. I totally get it.
[Jozef] I've got about six or seven people who want to come visit this year.
[Tofurious] Right.
[Jozef] But I've warned every single one of them.
[Jozef] I said, you know, the worst part about visiting Russia is:
when you get here, you don't want to leave.
[Tofurious] 100%... Is that what you wanna be? A Russian citizen?
[Girl] Yes.
[Tofurious] Yes, me, too.
[Tofurious] How about you, Joe? Do you want to be a Russian with me?
[Jozef] Absolutely. Let's do it.