Canadian farmer Arend Feenstra, who moved to Russia through a streamlined immigration program for citizens of “unfriendly” countries who share “traditional values,” has complained that he cannot get a permanent residence permit. The news outlet Nizhny Novgorod Onlain drew attention to his YouTube video.
Feenstra received a three-year temporary residence permit in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region in early 2025. He then brought his wife and eight children to Russia and began farming.
But Feenstra has now learned that to replace his temporary residence permit with a permanent one, he must sign a contract with Russia’s Defense Ministry.
Right, because Russia invaded Ukraine.
The Oblasts that Russia is currently occupying had already democratically seceded after the 2014 coup.
Azov Brigade ran over civilian barricades in Mariupol with their tanks. That was the invasion.
You are seeing this through the eyes of the occupier.
Wow look at that picture, a “Heil Hitler” sign in Ukraine. I guess that means all Ukrainians are Nazis.
By the same logic, Karl Marx must be a Nazi, because he came from a country which used to have lots of “Heil Hitler” signs.
It also says Slava Ukraine, a Holocaust slogan. The Nazis and OUN coined the term. Read a book.
The fact that a small hateful minority has a stranglehold on the government is sorta my problem.
Yes, that famous Holocaust slogan: “Glory to Ukraine”
And that famous Nazi running Ukraine, the Jewish man Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Yes? The phrase originated with the OUN and denying the OUN’s involvement in the Holocaust is straight up Holocaust denial. Which is why Ukraine’s ambassador to Germany was forced to resign, after he violated German law regarding Holocaust denial by doing exactly that on live TV.
Of course. Every Ukrainian who wishes well for their nation must be a Holocaust-denying Nazi. While every Russian who wishes well for their nation is a proud, patriotic, moral warrior against the heinous and barbaric West.
Just for the avoidance of doubt for anybody who reads this: /s
There are ways to wish well for your country that don’t have that history.
Surely context matters. For example, one of the flags of where I live, the English flag, has been used to essentially express support for a more restrictive immigration policy
Whereas football fans will use that same flag with a completely different intended meaning - they just want to express support for the England football team
You seem to think it’s funny, but it is true. You also seem to have zero context for something you feel so strongly about. The OUN were so eager to exterminate minorities that even the Nazis had to reign them in for going “too far”.
Now the Banderite controlled government erects statues to Stepan Bandera, names streets after him, makes school children sing songs about him.
Zelensky campaigned and won on the promise of peace through the Minsk Agreement, and watched helplessly as the Azov Brigade refused his orders to stop shelling civilians in the Donetsk city center.
Zelensky is now just a kapo stooge who will never outlive his usefulness to these fascists.
There’s enough of this bollocks coming out of the Kremlin so I don’t know why you feel the need to generate more of it
I didn’t generate it, Victoria Nuland did.
Use your words. 🙉🙊🙈
You didn’t mention cookies like your Kremlin handlers told you to
You’ll get fined a few rubles for that mistake
Were those “democratic secessions” internationally observed?
No, they were done at gunpoint.
You’re repeating Putin’s propaganda.
The occupier is Russia, and it sounds like you’ve been brainwashed by their “west bad” propaganda your whole life.
What international observers would not have a conflict of interest? Which countries have affirmed that these regions have the right to a secession vote in the first place?
They were not allowed an official secession vote for the same reason that the parties those regions supported were outlawed.
Kind of like Euromaidan.
The DPR and LPR invited anyone who wanted to come.
All elections are guarded by guns, especially after a coup and entering a civil war. If you disrupt a polling station in America you’ll see guys with guns pretty fast.
The idea that a region who overwhelmingly voted for Yanukovych wouldn’t want to secede is denying the realities. You sound like a MAGA election denier.
I’m GenX in America. I’ve listened to your tired Boomer McCarthyist propaganda my entire life.
It was Nazi propaganda before that, and nothing has really changed.
See you on a drone cam recording!
It’s a fascist trait to get boners at watching people die.
An entire generation is being raised by this bloodthirsty cult.
No, I donate monthly to kill fascists. Fuck ruSSia
What a chump.
Wat. The guy’s platform was literally closer economic ties with the EU, which like 70% of the population supported. In what world does that imply a desire to secede?
It was his campaign promise because Europe offered the better trade deal, until it didn’t. Russia didn’t want to lose influence because they feared exactly what’s happening, so Russia simply offered an objectively better trade deal. That’s all. Yanukovych would have been corrupt not to take the better deal. And even if you refuse to believe it was a better deal, which it was, a broken campaign promise hardly necessitates a coup. We’d have a lot of coups in America if so. The 2014 coup was enacted by Svoboda, a Banderite party that only has support in Lvov Oblast, who was the only Oblast to vote for Petroshenko over Zelensky in 2019.
Zelensky promised peace through the Minsk Agreement, yet was powerless to stop the Azov Brigade from shelling civilians in Donetsk. Now Zelensky is a kapo stooge who will never outlast his usefulness to Banderites.
Let people vote and they’ll tell you if they’re “Ukrainian” or not. Yet, that’s not what American and Europe are interested in.
THIS👇 is all you need to know about the West’s adversarial nature toward Russia.
Tankie
“Let Ukrainians vote.” -tankies, I guess
🚨🚨TANKIE ALERT🚨🚨
Let people vote. Is that a tankie position?