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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.
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.
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That’s a clever work visa program lol.
I feel bad for his kids.
Fucking hilarious, I hope we dont accept him back, when his permit expires
Enjoy living in the airport with your wife and 8 children, shitstain. Hope it was worth it.
I understand what it’s for and why [the authorities] want you to sign it.
I’d rather take my chances in Canada, though I think living there is risky too.
Last I checked, as a Canadian the only military defence contract I had to sign was when I voluntarily joined the armed forces, not just existing as a Canadian.
These people cannot be this stu…No… No they are this fucking stupid. They are stupid, dumb mother fuckers.
The only ones I feel sorry for, would be his young children
Also, AFAIK Canada isn’t actively trying to invade any of their neighbors.
But in Canada they’re trying to make non-family farm workers eligible for worker’s compensation. The horror!
Well I feel bad for the eight children. Enjoy being fodder and not at a farm.
Now if only a few hundred US MAGAts would follow his example
As a Canadian, I truly hope that others like him follow his example.
We don’t need their kind around here.
I truly hope that others like him follow his example.
Glares with hostility at Alberta
let them leave, don’t let them come back
The “traditional values” of heavy drinking and autocracy?
But they have shopping carts that can go up escalators.
And bread!
AH HAHAHA HA HHAHAAHAAA
Good to know. Because, I was just about to move there. I hear Siberia is lovely in the winter. Also, I was promised a free trip to Ukraine. Two countries for one price, what a deal!
The most unbelievable part of this whole story is that someone would admit to their mistake.
the idiot also likely doesnt want to learn Russian, which is required if you want to surive in russia.
Fucking hell, getting some language skills would be the sole upside of this entire idiotic affair.
Russian is a legit language of world literature, which would be useful since his life will probably contain suffering comparable to Dostoyevsky’s characters.
Oh yeah. Been following this guy for the schadenfreude for awhile. When he first moved there he was surprised that workers at the random Russian bank he went to didn’t speak English. Dude is so fucking stupid
Russia that is known for systematic erasure of culture through resettlement and enforcement of their langauge, has very little people speaking English? You serious?!
Yeah, but do you not understand how bad Canada is? I had to pay taxes last year! If I didn’t pay them they’d come to my house and… Sorry what? Just deliver a letter that says I owe taxes? Not armed police?
Fuck that! Anyway, they’ll send you threatening letters that demand you owe them money! And after I refuse that they’ll send the cops and… Oh, they’ll just charge interest to what you owe? And if you still don’t pay it immediately they don’t really care? Um…
Yeah! So that’s why I moved my family of 10 to Russia, so we didn’t have to deal with the fascistic theft of money like Canada!
The only way to guarantee citizenship is to enlist? Sounds familiar…
Is sadly better in that respect than the US, where we require complicated paperwork to gain citizenship through military service, and deport those veterans who make errors or miss paperwork deadlines.
Thinking that Russia, a country with the highest rate of HIV, abortion, CSAM, child prostitution, and drug use has traditional values is proof that online propaganda works.
Traditional conservative values.
Yeah, but they mentioned aborti…
Wait, their abortion is the only moral abortion. Nevermind.
CSAM, child prostitution
Glances at news
My guy I think those ARE the traditional values they want.
The fact the media calls children who are raped “Boys” and “Young women” is all you need to know. It’s never “little girls” who are assaulted, it’s “young women”
Yeah but they don’t like “the gays” so it evens out I guess.
They sure ain’t listening to Russian hardbass, lol
I didn’t come here to sign a contract. I’d rather take my chances in Canada, though I think living there is risky too.
You’d have to watch Canadian society treat people you hate with respect. The horror.
Nonsense. Just move to Alberta.
All the racists and incel roughnecks and insane police violence and systematic rape of first nations peoples. You just don’t have a risk of being pushed into the Ukraine meat grinder.
Plus Alberta is in the middle of an obvious Crimea play, there will be plenty of chances to serve Russia in Canada.
If the US doesn’t declare the upcoming Alberta election a fraud and begin handing out US passports to the traitors, I’ll be very surprised.
Canada continuing to allow Facebook, X, and OpenAI to operate in the country is baffling.
Please, no. Please? This is how we got into this mess in the first place. We were slightly more conservative than the Canadian average 25 years ago and then all the rest of the country dumped their social rejects on us. Our population doubled in like 10 years and now we have Danielle Smith running the province. Please, I’m begging you, stop sending every failed Ontario washout to Alberta.
Nobody is sending anyone to you. Idiots looked at Alberta and thought to themselves: “You know what? Seems like a great place to be a shit bag.”, and then moved there on their own accord.
Maybe y’all should have curbstomped them when they arrived but you didn’t because you shared the same values.
Conservatism is a cancer. If you leave it unchecked, it rots you from the inside.
Please, tell me more about what my values are. While you’re busy making generalizations about other people, pay more attention to the conservatives undermining your own province, because we aren’t the only province getting targeted, we were just the low hanging fruit.
So Alberta is the Texas of Canada…
Isn’t Alberta where all the best hiking is? I’ve often thought about where I would want to live in Canada if they ever accepted me and I would prefer to live where there’s mountains and hiking. Did they really turn the prettiest province into a dumping ground for their worst people?
It’s pretty close to 50/50 population wise. A little over half are right wing mostly in the sticks. A little under half are left-ish, mostly in the cities. But yes, basically anyone who couldn’t hold down a job anywhere else was told to grab a shovel and head to Alberta to dig for oil. And they came, by the millions. They bought up the cheap houses in all the little whistle-stop towns and then headed off to work the rigs. We leaned a bit right before they came, but not this far right. Even most of the farmers find them extreme.
The American oil barons promoted American style culture and a disdain for Albertan history and cultures. Most of the rig pigs and truckers didn’t know any better, they weren’t from around here. Now 25-30% of the province doesn’t even identify as Canadian.
Don’t misread me, it was never a haven for critical thinkers, but we had one of the finest public education systems in North America for nearly 30 years once. You wouldn’t know it now. Our public health system was a miracle for how low our population density was. It’s still not as bad as some of the truly dystopian parts of the US, but it’s certainly a struggle compared to some provinces. The racism and xenophobia always existed, but it was never this widespread, and it certainly wasn’t this open. All our independent news orgs are now wholly owned by American hedge funds.
There’s some bright spots though. The arts are still widely celebrated here. Calgary and Edmonton have more stage theatres than you’d find in many cities twice their size, and music festivals are everywhere. Arguably we have more diverse food culture here than most places in North America too. The urban centres are actually pretty cosmopolitan and friendly. If you stick to the urban metro-areas and the national and provincial parks, it’s still beautiful.
And the political situation isn’t as hopeless as some people make it out to be. We’re outnumbered, but just barely.
The American oil barons promoted American style culture and a disdain for Albertan history and cultures. Most of the rig pigs and truckers didn’t know any better, they weren’t from around here. Now 25-30% of the province doesn’t even identify as Canadian.
I call them IRS fugitives who also import their own scum culture and pollute.
I appreciate your thorough response! I’m so used to our red states in the US being absolutely awful and backwards as hell that I think I was projecting that onto Alberta. It can’t possibly be as bad as fuckin Idaho, lol.
BC is fine for hiking and skiing and not being insane.
Well, I mean if you stick to the coast it’s fine. You get into the interior it may as well be Alberta.
They’re not being sent, they’re being called to Alberta. Did you know Alberta has been heavily advertising in other provinces to get people to move there? They’ve been doing this for over ten years now. They have huge multimillion ad campaigns to lure people over.
Read it again. Your recency bias is showing. They flooded out west long before there were any ad campaigns.
Read what again? Where you said it happened over the past 10 years? I also said it happened over the past ten years.
I said 25 years ago it doubled in 10 years. We’re not talking about the same time period.
If these are Ontario’s deplorables I’m not sure who’s left in Ontario of any quality given who they keep electing with abysmal voter turnout.
Rape and murder*
Thoughts as I was reading this:
He then brought his wife and eight children…
This is not someone who should be taken seriously. Not normal.
He also said his family no longer recommends that other foreigners move to Russia because the authorities keep changing the rules and “there’s no way forward.”
Haha, loser. Imagine finding out in 2026 that the Russian state is corrupt.
Since November 2025, foreign men ages 18 to 65 who are deemed fit for military service have been required to sign a contract with the Defense Ministry to obtain a permanent residence permit in Russia. People who moved to Russia through the “traditional values” program are not exempt from this requirement.
Go get killed for the state, moron. Why do you think they let you in? Because they’re nice and friendly? They need cannon fodder, you dolt.
I thought one of the “traditional values” these guys love is men being protectors? So he should be thrilled to serve in the military to “defend” his family and the “traditional values” he loves so much
