An introduction to the conversation and the topic of the American Village project.

Introduction

Explanation of the American Village project, allowing Western foreigners to buy land and build a house in Russia.

What is the American Village?

Details about the location of the American Village in the Moscow region, near Istra.

Location of the Village

Information about the infrastructure and transportation options in and around the village.

Infrastructure and Transportation

Discussion about ownership of land and the investment aspect of the project.

Ownership and Investment

Details about the cost of land and construction of houses in the American Village project.

Cost of Land and Construction

Information about project updates, resources, and the project website.

Project Updates and Resources

Discussion about the American village project and its potential in the Yadislavskaya region.

Introduction to the Project

Discussion about language lessons, advertising a discount offer, and the quality of materials.

Language Lessons and Discount Offer

Explanation of government programs for Russian citizens, free land offers, and challenges with land utilities.

Government Programs and Land Ownership

Discussion about the challenges of setting up utilities and the high cost of electricity in a specific land location.

Challenges with Utilities and Land Location

Insight into the integration process for foreign residents in Russia and the importance of legal foothold.

Integration into Russian Society

Discussion about working with an immigration lawyer and caution against self-building due to potential risks.

Immigration Lawyer and Construction Concerns

Contrasting opinions about the safety of foreigners in Moscow and addressing misconceptions.

Perceptions of Safety in Moscow

Explanation of the integration of foreign residents into Russian society and the role of children in making connections.

Foreigners in Russian Society

Importance of having a legal foothold and the challenge of obtaining citizenship without a legal pathway.

Legal Foothold and Citizenship

Clarification on the criteria for purchasing land in the American village and the acceptance of English-speaking Westerners.

Land Purchase and American Village Criteria

Discussion about the presence of churches, religious practices, and the dominant form of Christianity in the region.

Churches and Religious Practices

Explanation of the legal documentation process and the absence of title insurance in Russia.

Legal Documentation and Title Insurance

Insight into the employment opportunities for temporary and permanent residents, and the process of becoming an individual entrepreneur.

Employment and Individual Entrepreneurship

Clarification on the communication process with the project organizer and the challenges of managing inquiries.

Communication with Project Organizer

Discussion about retiring in Russia and the possibility of moving there part-time. Addressing retirement funds and qualifications for living in Russia.

Retirement and Moving to Russia

Exploring the complexities of setting up a business and obtaining the required quota for residency in Russia.

Business Set-Up and Quota

Discussion about schooling options, language requirements, and the cultural differences in education between Russia and other countries.

Schooling and Education in Russia

Insights into the general view of Western foreigners moving to Russia and the positive response to the American Village project.

Russian Population's View on Foreigners

Discussion about financial transactions, transfer fees, and deals related to moving to Russia and acquiring property.

Financial Transactions and Deals

Insights into adoption laws, cultural attitudes towards adoption, and the implications of adoption on family dynamics in Russia.

Adoption and Family Matters

Information on how to contact and connect with the speaker, as well as special offers related to financial transactions and property acquisition in Russia.

Contact Information and Special Offers

To provide temporary residency for Russian citizens.

To allow Western foreigners to buy land and build a house in Russia.

To create a separate entity for foreign investors in Russia.

To establish a business hub for international entrepreneurs in Russia.

Only dirt roads are available for transportation.

The village has paved roads, delivery services, and public transport options.

The village is isolated with no access to basic amenities.

The village has limited access to electricity and water supply.

An investment opportunity with guaranteed returns.

The opportunity to apply for temporary residency in Russia.

Access to a Russian 401k retirement plan.

Immigration project for Westerners who speak English

Highly qualified specialist jobs in Russia

- The speaker and Kevin discuss using royalty-free music for a project
- They talk about the American Village project in Russia, which allows Westerners to buy land and immigrate to Russia
- The village is located in the Moscow region near Istra
- The infrastructure includes paved roads, public transport, and access to supermarkets and delivery services
- The project is within an existing dacha community with established utilities and services.

- The village project does not own the land, but has reserved the right to buy up to 30 plots of land with utilities in place
- The project offers the opportunity to buy land and obtain temporary residency in Russia
- The process of obtaining temporary residency involves language tests and filing documents with Timur
- The quota for temporary residency is limited, especially in the Moscow region
- Real estate is recommended as a retirement investment in Russia
- The Russian language test for residency is considered easy, and it is recommended to go for permanent residency to cover both temporary and permanent residency requirements

- The speaker recommends going for the permanent residency test as it covers both temporary and permanent residency
- The test questions are basic and cover simple English grammar
- Land prices range from 4 to 5 million rubles, with house construction costs starting at 11 million rubles
- Construction prices have doubled since COVID
- The construction company offers energy-efficient houses made of proprietary cinder blocks
- Stick frame construction is cheaper but less energy-efficient
- The speaker provides a Telegram channel for project updates and a website for more information.

- The speaker has created a website for a project involving an immigration lawyer and a father.
- The project aims to create an American village in the Yatslavskaya region.
- The website offers a 25% discount on language lessons.
- The speaker discusses the challenges of obtaining free land and citizenship in Russia.
- He emphasizes the need for legal foothold to live in Russia and the benefits of participating in the project.
- The speaker also addresses concerns about integration and safety for Westerners living in Russia.

- The speaker discusses the challenges of moving to different regions in Russia
- He addresses the criticism of the "American Village" project and the requirements for living there
- He also talks about the exchange rate of the ruble to the dollar and the religious considerations for living in the community

- The speaker discusses the presence of churches in the city of Istra, Russia
- They mention the dominance of Orthodoxy in the region, but also note the presence of Protestants and a Russian Lutheran priest
- They explain the process of buying land in Russia, including the legal documents and the role of their company in holding the land until the buyer obtains citizenship
- They also discuss the process of obtaining residency and the ability to work in Russia
- The speaker addresses the availability of plots in the American village project and clarifies that the project is not in Crimea
- They also mention the overwhelming number of inquiries Timur receives and emphasize the need for serious inquiries to be directed to them for follow-up.

- The speaker discusses the possibility of single people moving to Russia and the requirements for residency
- They also talk about the option of living part-time in Russia and the process of setting up a business there
- The speaker addresses questions about schooling options for children in Russia and the general perception of Western foreigners in the country
- They also mention the challenges of creating a custom project in Russia and the time it took to establish the American Village project

- Discussion about using royalty-free music for a project
- American Village project in Russia, near Istra, allowing Westerners to buy land and immigrate
- Infrastructure includes paved roads, public transport, supermarkets, and delivery services
- Existing dacha community with utilities and services
- Opportunity to buy land and obtain temporary residency in Russia
- Process of obtaining residency involves language tests and filing documents
- Real estate recommended as a retirement investment in Russia
- Land prices range from 4 to 5 million rubles, with construction costs starting at 11 million rubles
- Challenges of obtaining free land and citizenship in Russia
- Addressing concerns about integration and safety for Westerners living in Russia
- Presence of churches in the city of Istra, Russia
- Process of buying land and obtaining residency in Russia
- Option of living part-time in Russia and setting up a business
- Questions about schooling options for children in Russia
- Challenges of creating a custom project in Russia and the time it took to establish the American Village project
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- The speaker discusses the challenges and efforts involved in building a village in Russia
- They also talk about the adoption process in Russia and the difficulties for single males to remarry if they have children
- The speaker offers discounts on money transfer fees for viewers of the channel who contact him by a certain date
- The discounts range from 17% to 50% and are valid for different time periods

- The speaker offers a discount on moving money if contacted before August 7th
- Crypto transactions can be completed in 24 hours
- Fees for land and house depend on customization
- The speaker has ways to get money from the US and Europe
- The speaker will start a weekly show on news and political stuff

The speaker discusses the challenges of building a village in Russia and the adoption process in the country. They offer discounts on money transfer fees for viewers, ranging from 17% to 50% for different time periods. The speaker also offers a discount on moving money if contacted before August 7th and mentions the ability to complete crypto transactions in 24 hours. Additionally, they discuss fees for land and house customization, ways to get money from the US and Europe, and their upcoming weekly show on news and political topics.

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You just played, I used that for previous project, but you know, that's right, writes free.

You, I think you sped it up or did a, like a pitch change on it.

You could have just used that as is man and it wouldn't get flagged.

I sped it up on purpose because I wanted to keep it to 30 seconds and it fit with my royalty free video in the background.

I thought you're trying to just dodge the YouTube sensors.

I'm like, for that particular piece of music, you don't have to.

yeah, no, I actually licensed it from YouTube.

But anyways, Kevin, looks like we're going to have a big adventure.

Take a deep dive into the universe here of the American Village, right?

We are So I'm sure all of you are familiar with Tim, but you know introductions anyway Tim Kirby famous American broadcaster in Russia the most American Russian

that's right yeah and of course someone wants to call me right now.

That's very nice of you, but no, no calling.

Yeah, So welcome to all our regular viewers, new guys.

Tim is the front man for the American villages in Russia.

So we're going to talk to them tonight about that.

And if you have questions, please put them over in the comments.

Put a big uppercase Q and a colon in front of it or I will miss them.

So, well, we had a discussion like this about a year ago and a lot has changed or maybe it was more than a year ago.

I don't know I appreciated it then and I appreciate this now because it's good to sort of go through this thing because the project is enticing especially the name but it definitely confuses people And the fact that there's a lot of myths and rumors and feelings about the project that aren't based in reality Doesn't help

Yeah, and I think I from Svetlana's comment.

I may have called you the most American Russian I if I did I apologize.

Well, that's the thing I do, my project that's in Russian for the Russian audience.

Some of it gets translated into English for a lot of these travel videos, but ultimately, it's the project is just so much more successful in the Russian language that I think most of my colleagues are kind of just giving up on English or they're sort of just hanging on to it before they eventually give up.

So I've already given up and I'm the host.

Okay well Tim let's start out with the big 1.

Okay, so Kevin, this project is as it stands now in its current iteration and final iteration, at least for the moment, is it allows Western foreigners to buy land, that they normally wouldn't be able to buy because most land in Russia is inaccessible for foreigners to buy.

Although, regardless, if you want to buy land in Russia, I could help you out with that because in the process of making this project, my good lawyer buddy and I, we were able to create the legal mechanisms to do that.

So that's number 1, allows you to buy land in Russia and then build a house which you need to immigrate.

And when you do this, it allows you to get through the migration quotas because although a lot of people are interested in moving to Russia, the system won't let them because they need some sort of legal foothold in order to gain you know, residency in Russia.

And so the most classic legal foothold is being married to a Russian citizen.

Everything else is a bit more obtuse, harder to do, full of loopholes, or is even more expensive, I'll put it that way.

So essentially, the project was created as a sort of nice way that Westerners who can't normally immigrate to Russia could immigrate to Russia Especially those people who are you know already married and have kids and all that sort of stuff.

And Russia doesn't allow multiple wives just to immigrate.

This is actually a viewer question, but it's on my list too.

Remember Moscow the city and Moscow the region are 2 separate entities like Washington DC is not part of any state.

And it's in the Moscow region and it is around Istra.

So if you look right now do a search for Istra, I-S-T-R-A, you'll probably get that as the only result and you can look and it's by the water so it's outside the city but then again there's a no traffic up there so it's easy to get into Istra and then from Istra there's a million bazillion trains that go downtown

and Istra is Northwest of the city, right?

Kind of northish did north northwest maybe more west kind of But yeah So it's also famous because It's really the place where all the rich guys put their dachas in the 90s because for various reasons The ecology that's west of the city is considered to be superior So during the 90s the people who are in the know who made their first, you know million dollars They all bought land out that way.

So in some ways it's actually Worked out to be kind of a more top-tier area But again why that place because they had land where we knew the guy who's selling it We being my myself and my partner Tim or we know the guy who's selling it we It's all set up, you know to have the electricity and water and all this, you know, all the utilities are already there and ready to go.

And that's what killed the original project was the cost of trying to get these utilities set up.

No investor would pay that insane amount of money to do it.

And so when you have everything already set up, well, you gotta go with where the wind blows you.

Are there supermarkets and car dealerships?

Well, every time I've been to the site, I've seen delivery trucks.

So apparently you don't really have to go to the city anymore.

I mean, I can get food delivered to my house in the woods You know what I mean?

So the necessity for all that stuff is is not as important as it used to be But I believe it's like a 15 or 20 minute drive to the Easter itself Then from Easter it is what a hour and 10 or hour and 20 or something on the train.

If you're driving no traffic to get downtown, probably be like an hour and a half or something with traffic.

The sky's the limit baby because the traffic here can get pretty brutal so yeah.

But getting to Istra again there is no traffic because essentially because of the water reservoir, the road or roads that go up that way are really all kind of dead ends and only really service the people who live there.

So it kind of functions like a giant cul-de-sac.

Well, I've got a relative who has a dacha about an hour and a half outside of Moscow, but she's out on dirt roads.

So is this dirt roads or they're paved roads?

It's it's it's an asphalt paved road, even within the actual community.

Like if you drove from the Kremlin to go home, it would be all 100% paved.

Yeah, the days of country roads are over.

And in my life, too, as of 2 years ago, they put a nice real asphalt road to my house in Czech, of which, boy, that even when you're walking and you're not driving, it made a huge difference just because it's perfectly flat and nice and all that.

There are, I believe, 6 buses that go each way every day.

It's like 6 buses towards the village, 6 buses from the village.

Not super convenient, but public transport does exist and you can take taxis.

Taxis in Russia, I think are pretty darn cheap or maybe I'm just living high in the hog, I don't know.

So yeah, you don't necessarily have to drive to live there.

It's 1 of the, but it'd be a perk, but it's not mandatory.

So, and also 1 thing to add, the now, previously the American village was gonna be like its own separate entity.

Now it is essentially plots of land that we have access to that are within an already existing Dutch community that's been there for over a decade.

That's why there's water already there and gas and electricity and, sewers and all that stuff, because this was all built long, long ago.

So does the village project itself own these plots of land or how's all that working?

No, because It is really hard to find an investor for this kind of thing.

I talked to all the billionaires I know, and that was 3 conversations, and all of them liked the idea, but they didn't wanna just give me a lot of money to play with, okay?

So ultimately, the way that it works Best for everyone is like I said, we know this guy who is a friend of Timur's who has these large amount of dacha plots of land in 1 particular location and It has all the utilities in place.

And so when Timur kind of put 2 and 2 together he talked to his buddy and essentially he reserved for us the right to the for last year to buy up to 30 of them now this year we're down to 20 he sold 10 over the winter okay so I don't know what's going to happen That's what I tell people is like a lot of people like well I don't know maybe I'll think about this and normally normally especially before we actually started construction I would tell people you know what nothing was really sure so it's like no don't sell your house yet I don't know what's happening.

You know, I'm not sure but now is that time where it's go time And that's why we're having this conversation right now because this guy I don't know maybe over the winter He'll sell another 10 or maybe he'll sell all 18 that are left We sold to 2 families are having homes being built.

In fact, they're digging probably as we speak.

The sun is still up judging by where I'm sitting.

But the thing is then a lot of people ask, what will happen in a couple, what if I wanna do this in a couple of years?

Well, the problem with Russia is you don't know is, okay, Maybe we'll be able to find location number 2 where there's a lot of land for sale That's sort of next to each other That is all nice and set up.

That's also in a really nice community that's somehow still somewhat affordable Was it sounding really impossible?

You know, maybe we'll be able to repeat this success But I can't guarantee that Kevin.

I can't guarantee that what I can guarantee is there's 18 plots of land left for 2024 And whatever happens next year, you know what happens?

I tried to talk to this guy and be like, you know, look how much give us another year He's kind of like you're a real nice guy and I'm happy to make this deal with you, but I want to make money on this.

So yeah, he's not, he's not a, philanthropist.

Well, so it's typical Russia first come first served.

Even you have a handshake with a guy, if you walk away and say you'll come back tomorrow and somebody brings them the cash tonight, they'll sell it anyway.

So there's a really, like I said, there's no guarantees.

But who knows, maybe something could happen But that's why I tell people if you're gonna be sitting this thing of like maybe I don't know The other thing too is Kevin is people aren't immortal.

Well, the governor of the Moscow region I believe last year or was it this no last year won the election So he's governor for another 5 years.

The head of Rosalyn Primakov, I believe when Putin got back in office, he was renewed as being the head of that.

So that's like a 5 or 6 year window where the people we made these agreements with about the immigration side are still in their position, barring some sort of horrible scandal, they're in place.

But again, you know, what if, you know, God forbid, what if 1 of those 2 people had a heart attack, and the guy who replaces them says, well, the F for you, agreement that was with him, F you pal, You know what I mean?

So that's why they're after like a year and a half or 2 years of the project being something that's like, guys, wait, wait, wait, don't sell your house.

It went from 0 urgency to now like major urgency.

I know it's not a pleasant way to do this, but it's the way it is.

If somebody wants to get involved, what do they get when they invest in the project?

Do they just get a piece of land or do they get a house built for them or

okay so invest is an improper word investing sounds like you are putting money into something to get money back what you are doing is you are buying a life in Russia because you are buying land, you're gonna put some kind of house on it.

Although some people say they just wanna buy the land and maybe do a house later, that's good because at least you're there.

You're still a foreign person who wants to come to Russia.

So if you wanna buy the land now and build later that works that works It might not be as good cost-wise because the more people you have at the same time the easier it is to make it happen But anyways, that's that's not bad.

But what essentially you're doing is you are buying the opportunity to have a life in Russia.

It is, I am getting a place in the immigration quota.

I am gonna get temporary residency through a Tumor's skills in our numerous agreements.

And you're gonna get a life in Russia where you actually have a place to live.

And it's nice, unlike certain people in this conversation, Kevin, who came to Russia with absolutely nothing like our Uzbek and Tajik friends and had to claw his way towards having real estate here.

Yeah So you say it gets them in the quota system.

Do they actually get a quota through the village?

Yes, we have all the documents and writing.

It gets you the, of course, in Russian legalese, it gets you the opportunity to apply for temporary residency which you will and which it'll succeed because you have a place the quota so it's basically your gateway to temporary residency but that has to all be filed with Timur and this that and the other and you still have to do the language tests there's no getting around that so you have to have that very very ultra basic minimum knowledge of Russia the tests people over blow them we've talked about this many times Kevin so I won't like I talked your ear off with a conversation we've had 12 times, but they are way easier than people tell you and Russian especially at that level is way easier than idiots online will tell you so don't worry too much about that.

Yeah and and I'll point out to people that the Opportunity to get a quota is a big deal because there aren't a lot of ways you can get a quota Particularly in the Moscow region because there's a limited number every year.

It's giving you a way to get the quota and you're getting 1 of those slots.

Well, there's a limited number for every state in the union, as we would say.

So even if you think, oh, well, you know what?

Why don't I just go to some region no 1 has ever heard of?

First off, they're not gonna be very happy to see you.

Secondly, you're not gonna get through the bureaucracy.

And thirdly, you know, there are some regions in Russia where the quota is 20.

From people from the former Soviet Union or whatever.

So, yeah, it is essentially the methods to to do this, to get into Russia.

Immigration wise, They're sort of they sort of exist but they're all very difficult like the whole thing about the okay I'm gonna start a business and I'm gonna pay myself to run the business though The the lawmen are really clamping down on that.

Maybe that still works I don't know a few people have gotten through with that, but it's still expensive.

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