INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Maria Butina was once imprisoned in the United States for acting as an unregistered foreign agent by infiltrating conservative circles
and mentor for Westerners who, the Kremlin claims, are seeking to move to Russia in search of a haven for their conservative beliefs.Welcome
tours for those who are looking to move to Russia in the future who want to see how the country is to live [in], and finally, we also want
present Russia as a bastion of conservative values have resonated with the president's support base, said Sam Greene, the director of the
right-wing and hard-right communities
It is true that wedge issues that Putin has used, like religion and LGBT issues, have been relatively successful at marginalizing the
Westerners have sought temporary asylum in Russia since the beginning of 2022, with 2,358 people applying for a temporary residence permit
Over 200 of them signed up and moved to Russia since April's decree, Butina said
The bulk come from Germany and the Baltic states, with 1,237 and 1,802 nationals immigrating from these places respectively, while 227 are
independently verify these statistics.As a member of Russia's ruling United Russia party who spent 15 months in a United States jail,
her work to infiltrate conservative groups like the National Rifle Association as part of an effort to promote Russian interests in the 2016
establish a secret communications back channel with Russia
Butina has denied being a spy.On social media, the lawmaker posts regular videos showing off everything from housing to grocery stores in
In Australia, they introduced laws associated with the LGBT movement, and we realized where we wanted to raise our future children
She did not specify which laws she was referring to.Also on the panel was German national Alina Lipp, a self-styled war blogger who has
denies that Welcome to Russia is just another example of this propaganda, as Moscow attempts to display its handful of Westerners to the
We don't offer money, people by themselves are coming here to look for opportunities
does not release official statistics, news outlet The Bell estimated around 650,000 people have permanently moved abroad since the start of
the war, many of whom cited fears of war, mobilization and political repression.Foreigners have not been immune to Russia's wartime
journalists Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva served extensive time behind bars on trumped-up charges before they were freed in a major
prisoner swap with the West in August
Russian-American citizen Ksenia Karelina is serving a 12-year prison sentence on treason charges for donating $51.80 to a Ukraine aid
