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Portugal, Greece, Malta, Cyprus are one of the EU countries involved in these programs, with different parameters each, but with obviously financial incentives.
Now, thanks to Russia, visa is also introduced with ideological motives. As of September 1, 2024, Moscow has implemented the program of the so-called “common values”, also known as “anti-Woke” visa, for those who want to settle on its territory because they have been fed up with the downfall of a declining, liberal West.
After and the Russian economy in poor condition, Moscow is making efforts to embellish the Russian president’s regime Vladimir Putin, which will also bring hot money.
47 ‘non -friendly’ countries
As the Washington Post reveals, the “anti-Woke” visa is aimed at citizens of 47 countries that Russia considers “non-friendly”, including the US, Britain and the majority of EU member states.
Through this particular visa whose aim is to ‘Humanitarian support for people who embrace traditional Russian spiritual and moral values“, Russia offers a three -year residence permit with minimal requirements (for example, the knowledge of Russian language is not necessary), which can then lead to citizenship.
Foreigners should have sufficient resources to maintain, but the Russian government has adopted support programs for their housing and professional rehabilitation. Those who have a residence permit become beneficiaries of pensions and family benefits, and also access to the public health system.
Since the beginning of 2025, about 700 people have received this visa, while hundreds of others have gone to Russia with student or working visas or as spouses of Russian citizens, according to Putin’s MP, Maria Boutina, which has emerged as a key supporter of the program. “The existence of many LGBTI people and many immigrants are the two main reasons why people decide to leave.” She said in an interview with the Washington Post.
Mandatory vaccinations against Coronovirus are another reason why Westerners choose to relocate to Russia. These people – with a torque in conspiracy – do not perceive vaccinations as public health protection measures, but as tools of authoritarian control.
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It should be noted that Boutina had been accused of penetrating conservative political circles in the US with the aim of promoting Russian interests and that it was deported to Russia in October 2019. Today, in addition to being a member of the age of just 36, he also runs the Welcome to Russia, values. “
In November 2024 he also inaugurated a new program on the state -run Russian RT network, entitled “Russia Family”, which focuses on people who have decided to leave the West and settle in Russia. At the same time, the RT presented, in many languages, a website called “Gateway to Russia”, which provides information on relocation options and key elements of the Russian language.
Through this propaganda, Russia is being promoted as a refuge for the advocates of “traditional values”. In unmarried men, idealized images of subordinate, oriented to the Russian family, in complete sympathy with the aesthetics of traditional spouse (tradwife), who gains ground in conservative circles in the US.
Also – the result of the strict laws of the Putin regime against LGBTI people – is promoted as a positive element.
Russia’s persistent shift to the value of the family is also aimed at improving the demographic situation, in the wake of the reduction of births and losses due to the war with Ukraine. The Russian government motivates young women to marry and have many children, leaving aside their education and professional careers.
Through ‘Visa of common values’, the Leo hand From Texas he is one of the 700 strangers who moved to Russia with his family, wife and two children, because he felt insecure because of uncontrolled immigration and increasing trans people.
The HER, who is opposed to abortion, believes that the Democratic elections stole the 2020 elections. Joe Biden by the Republican Donald TrumpBut he is now inadequate as the US president because he did not punish the traitors – the Democrats – who are responsible for the election. For Cer, America has been occupied and plagued by corrupt elites.
Patriotism is also the background of the quarterly festival in Moscow, from June to the end of August, entitled “Summer in Moscow”. On the initiative of the mayor Sergei Sobyanin, There are a number of free events, such as cooking and painting lessons, while the city’s bridges and terraces are filled with flowers. Moscow looks like a huge flowerbed, the “Economist” said, adding that the festival is the culmination of years of renovation and upgrading of the city’s infrastructure.
The ideological stigma of events is ubiquitous. On June 12, the day of Russia’s independence and a national holiday, Putin, inspecting men of the Armed Forces, referred to the meaning of the day, which “is in the immortality of the Russian people, our state, our homeland. And the road to this immortality goes through the victories that you and your comrades conquer. “
