The Foreign Ministry will be offering three-month visas as early as next month, Russian state media said.
  • Putin has signed a decree that Russia will welcome foreigners who want to escape Western liberal ideals.
  • Applicants may include those from countries unaligned with “Russian spiritual and moral values.”
  • The application process has been simplified, and visas will be issued as soon as next month.
  • r00ty@kbin.life
    222·
    3 months ago

    Well, most countries aren’t going to have the same constitutional rights as the USA has. In the same way, the US doesn’t give their citizens the same rights as those in other countries receive. As such, I’m not sure if there’s too much point comparing the two.

    Otherwise. Yes, it’s not going to be a nice place to live, and anyone that chooses this option has only themselves to blame when they realise they made a deal with the leopard that has a history of biting faces off.

      • r00ty@kbin.life
        6·
        3 months ago

        I’m not sure if that story is onionesque or real. Now, that uncertaintly is a problem with the modern world.

      • 5too@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        …it didn’t occur to them to even start learning Russian before they went?!

      • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        Ok those people are dumb. But is the Russian government really hard up enough to steal the value of a Canadian farm from some yokels? Or more likely it’s some lower level corrupt officials. Come for the conservative ideals, stay for the corruption and scams.

    • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
      7·
      3 months ago

      My comment was about the irony them “escaping” to have freedom of speech, gun freedom and trial by jury of their peers to a country that has none of those, not being a bad place to live. It’s not about “other countries”. Other countries can do whatever they want.

      (yea, I think I commented in the wrong thread, this was meant to go on the other one where magats ponder moving to russia)

      • r00ty@kbin.life
        1·
        3 months ago

        Yeah, my point is, comparing them to constitutional amendments doesn’t make too much sense for the rest of us.

        But you know, I think they do have trial by jury. Just, I think like the elections there, the jury gets told the result, before they decide it.

        If they want to own guns, no problem. The government will supply them, and even provide transportation to a place they can use them. (I hope the /s is implied here).

    • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      3 months ago

      the US doesn’t give their citizens the same rights as those in other countries receive.

      The U.S. doesn’t give their citizens the same rights that the U.S. constitution has.

      • jaybone@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        You mean the same rights guaranteed by the constitution? Or you mean the rights of the document itself? Like no flash photography or stored in a climate controlled box or something like that?