The people leaving the West behind in search of the Russian dream
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The BBC asks Westerners who moved to Russia if life there lives up to expectations.
  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I wonder if he’ll be drafted

    Within weeks of arriving, Leo says they were defrauded of 5 million roubles – about £52,000 ($66,000) – by a contact they trusted, leaving them homeless.

    Although he is committed to staying in Russia out of a sense of “destiny”, he now says he misses the freedoms that have shaped the American personality.

    “[In] Russia you don’t have these human rights values.”