I want to say: "Hello, Mother Russia!"

The Russian World Foundation is going to help 200 American families who want to move to Russia to study the Russian language. So far, the relocation of foreigners to Russia, fleeing the "tyranny of minorities" in the West, has not become a mass phenomenon, but the trend is already evident.

Journalist and blogger Tim Kirby, now Russian citizen (until recently the US citizen) is burning with the idea of creating an American Village of 200 homes in Russia for a group of first immigrants from the United States.

As of now, more than 200 families dream of escaping the free " tyranny of minorities" and other tolerance to our condemned and authoritarian Russia, where traditional family values and the Christian faith are still preserved. For the most part, they are farmers and people who work with their hands, the people of "One-story America," small towns in the Midwest. There are IT workers, construction workers, and even a few former police officers among them.

Svetlana Anokhina and her husband Joseph Rose, who moved to Russia from the United States on Feb. 16, 2022, think that others will follow the first immigrants en masse. After all, they will receive truthful information about the real life of people in Russia that they can trust. Today, such information is almost impossible to obtain in the U.S. The blogger Joseph, who shoots clips from different cities and villages of Russia, receives seemingly absurd questions, such as if there are cell phones, city parks to walk with children, if somebody grabs foreigners on the streets to send them to the front lines of the Special operation in Ukraine, and so on. Joseph and other bloggers like him are trying their best to bring the truth to Americans and people from other Western countries to debunk myths about Russia.

The Frenchman Fabrice Sorly, father of seven children, moved to Russia with his family seven years ago and wants to help 287 farmers from France to do the same. Recently Fabrice publicly declared himself a Russophile, becoming the vice-president of the International Russophile Movement, created on the initiative of Bulgarian politician Nikolay Malinov. Russia, like France, has a rich agricultural tradition, and farming development is widely supported by various government programs, said Fabrice. The very spirit of peasant way of life, closeness and love to the land "which you cultivate and with which you live by your labor", unites the French and Russians. Apart of that, there are several factors that encourage many French people to seek another place of residence, like the recent intensification of the persecution of Christian churches, the ban on wearing crosses in public places, and the promotion of non-traditional relationships. These families are looking to protect their morals, raise their children in the classical family tradition.

Thomas Röper, a German journalist and editor-in-chief of the portal "Antispiegel," came to Russia looking for the freedom of speech. Today, his online newspaper is almost only German-language media that offers an alternative view of what is happening in the world, and Russia's role in the world politics. Thomas regularly receives e-mail messages asking "How do I move to Russia, and what do I need to do?” “First of all you need to know Russian and get a place in the quota for your job specialty,” is his answer. Thomas supports Fabrice's view that farming is being systematically destroyed in the EU.

Over next two years more than 30,000 German-speaking citizens of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are planning to move to Russia, states in the German News program Thomas' colleague Sergei Kerner. This opinion is the result of a study conducted by German blogger and journalist Martin Held. According to his data, 9 thousand residents of Germany are ready to cross the border of Russia this year.

But in addition to native Germans, many mixed families are seriously thinking about returning to Russia. It is easier for children of compatriots who once moved to Germany to study in Russian, since they have no language barrier. Some IT specialists with European experience are also looking toward Russia, there’s a big chance to find high-paid position of working in large corporations, even more remunerative than, for example, in Berlin.

Meanwhile, the agricultural sector in Russia is huge. People who have been working in Europe on their land for centuries, generation after generation, are going bankrupt and are being forced to move to cities in search of work. While in Russia, they would easily find employment in agriculture. As it happened with Old Believers returning from Brazil and other Latin American countries to the Russian Far East. There is a regional program to support farmers and socially significant activities in agriculture until 2027 in the Primorsky region. There are already 47 families of Old Believers from Brazil. About 100 more families from the U.S. and Latin American countries have expressed a desire to move to Russia.

So far, the relocation of foreigners to Russia has not become a mass phenomenon, but a trend is evident. In 2022, the percentage of compatriots relocated from the far abroad increased 30 times: from 0.1% in the first quarter to 3% in the fourth quarter. And this is only under the State Assisted Voluntary Resettlement Program, not counting those who moved on their own. Their feedback and communication with friends who stayed in their former country of residence gives a vivid picture of modern life in Russia, from which people see the truth, with all its pros and cons.

Siberian region Kuzbass is ready to hold regular online meetings of representatives of the Ministry of Labor and Employment with potential job seekers from other countries. Of course, if they speak Russian. At this point the representative of Rossotrudnichestvo and the head of the Department for Relations with Compatriots and Historical and Memorial Work Elena Shleneva has promised to include information on the procedure for moving to Russia in the frames of the Hello, Russia!project.

The development of Russian-language media abroad and the opening of new Russian schools and Russian language courses is a worldwide trend. Supply grows with the demand, which is especially true for those foreigners who are thinking about or have already decided to move to Russia permanently. "Stepping off the plane, I want to say in Russian: 'Hello, Mother Russia,'" writes in a letter our potential citizen from the United States.