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Russia is a great place to retire because it has cheap petrol, food, water, etc. It is also safe and has waterfront property with palms. The problem is no retirement visas.

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A nice chunk of land to grow a diverse food growing system that also attracts wildlife next to a lake full of pike and perch. Heck of an enticement, along with fleeing the poisons of modern agriculture, leading to a long healthy life.

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What has been the Orthodox way to deal with heretics? Have they been as vigorous as Catholics and Protestants in burning those who might disagree with them? Why do they seem so afraid of Catholicism whilst being sympathetic to Islam, when the real oppressors of Russia were Muslims rather than Catholics? Is it just the continuing institutional jealousy and bickering from a clash of ecclesiastical egos a millenium ago?

Is Orthodoxy influential, or just a hangover from the past? I take it that the lazy bureaucrats are atheist, materialist , wannabe western liberals rather than fervent proponents of Christianity of any stripe.

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The grass seems usually greener across the other fence, but is it really the case? It would be intresting to own huge lands and set up all white like minded communities without fear or persecution but i have a feeling the Russian government is not that all pro white as it seems, in many ways they seem like other western governments. And besides that owning land is not everything, it has to be good land for farming and agraculture, well good luck finding that in siberia.

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Public order and cleanliness seems to be an indication of civilisation. It declines rapidly as savages are imported and allowed not only to run free but to infiltrate society and degrade its institutions. Some of the commentators on Martyanov's site today mentioned that visitors to Russia are impressed by the lack of graffiti and the safety of the public spaces. As more muslims arrive, presumably this will be lost. Adding a few farmers in remote regions won't really help.

http://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2023/05/rogers-came-out-swinging.html

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Will it matter, particularly considering the indifference of the bureaucrats? Here's an article that predicts a drastic drop in the population of white countries (and China), but a surge in Muslim areas.

Forget Ukraine, it's fading, but in Afghanistan they are reproducing like rabbits!

https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/2023/05/01/demographics-the-key-to-future-balance-of-power

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Sounds like a clusterfuck to me

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There are other immigration lawyers you should interview. Timur is very good at marketing himself but his services are quite pricy and I know people he has let down. And it is not directly his office that can help people find work that's associates I believe.

Timur was also on the Expat American YouTube channel eating Georgian food but they never went as in-depth as this if anything they made it seem so rosie. I really think you should follow this piece up and could recommend another lawyer if you wanted?

Also check out the very small YouTube channel and website Russiamove.com as Dmitry would be a good person to interview. He is very knowledgeable in terms of history and helped bring over an SA farming family. It is so true the inferstructure is still not there unfortunately to do this enmass and might never be there unfortunately as it could work so well. It's like it's part of one big plan?

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Oval but broad face, high cheeks but smooth features, vaguely slit dark eyes that also have some roundness, long and thin nose that points down, small mouth with plump but not fleshy lips, tapered chin.

This is definitely what a Turk looks like.

The guy looks so much the archetypal Seljuk, it is fascinating.

I'd not be surprised if he were to reveal he is 900 hundred years old.

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Thanks, Rolo. This series is quite informative.

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Another one. Thanks for this.

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