Canadian who moved his family to Russia for ‘traditional values’ says he no longer recommends it: permanent residency would require signing a Defense Ministry contract — Meduza
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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.

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.

  • CharlesDarwin1809@piefed.worldEnglish
    52·
    2 days ago

    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

      • CharlesDarwin1809@piefed.worldEnglish
        52·
        2 days ago

        You didn’t mention cookies like your Kremlin handlers told you to

        You’ll get fined a few rubles for that mistake

        • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          23·
          2 days ago

          Earnest question. You’re commenting on other threads talking about how great Zohran Mamdani is. He totally is. 👍 Agreed.

          So what gives? You’re only NIMBY about fascism? It’s bad for us, but good for our “allies” and “enemies”?

          Maidan made Jan6 look like a cosplay convention in comparison.

          Why the disconnect? Is it borne out of your own sense of nationalism? What’s bad for them is good for us?

          I’m genuinely curious.

        • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          24·
          2 days ago

          First it was cookies. Then it was artillery shells.

          Can you explain why Democratic and Republican leaders appeared on the Maidan stage with Oleh Tyahnybok, the leader of Svoboda? It’s a fascist party that led the coup.

          Am I making that up? Am I?

          Just let people vote and respect their decisions. What’s so hard about that?

          • CharlesDarwin1809@piefed.worldEnglish
            41·
            2 days ago

            Just let people vote and respect their decisions. What’s so hard about that?

            Ukraine’s parliament voted to remove Yanukovych

            The Ukrainian people elected Zelenskyy

            You need to let people vote and respect their decisions

            • LocalAreaMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
              14·
              1 day ago

              Bullshit. There weren’t enough representatives per the constitution because a Nazi mob removed THEM, those that did not already flee.

              Zelesnky won on the promise of ending the conflict through the Minsk Agreement, a popular rejection of the Banderites and a mandate for peace, then watched helplessly as the Azov Brigade refused his orders to stop shelling the Donetsk city center.

              Now he’s just a kapo stooge who will never outlive his usefulness to the Banderites.

              A Jewish man “guarded” by men with Totenkopfs???

              You’re very confident in something you clearly don’t understand. You just need to be pointed at whomever they tell you your enemy is, huh?

              Chump.🤡