My life as a Russian immigrant after two years in Georgia & thoughts about the future (Q&A 2) - Zweisprachige Untertitel

Hi guys, welcome to my new video.
This is the second part of my Q&A and I'm filming this, actually, at the territory of a former archeological museum in Bilisi.
Also, I wish I could show you this view.
of the city but I don't know I didn't expect that the Sun will be shining so brightly it's like 6 p.m.
guys I'm here filming outside this Q&A will be about Georgia about leaving here as a Russian immigrant and it is the second
part of my Q&A series if you haven't already I recommend you to watch the
first one where I was mostly talking about Russia the situation there
about some user guards in my you know people I know in Russia and so on I also
recommend you to watch this third one the next video but here I am and it's so an usual that I also can walk here,
I can even stand,
please like this video to promote it, subscribe to my channel, tap the bell to not miss other videos and let's begin.
So the first question is what part of the Russian culture are you still able to practice and which Georgian customs you already adopted?
And honestly guys I would say that my life hasn't changed much because here in Belisi there is a big community of people like me,
X but bubble, so there's no particular custom.
that I adopted, but overall I would say slow-living.
Well, I myself come from a small town in Russia,
then I moved to a bigger city,
Habaros, but still it is in the far east of Russia, so it's not that hectic and busy, like Moscow.
So compared to the cat,
The capital Russia,
Belisi is so chill and so cozy and I enjoy a lot this fact that after my Georgian classes I usually go to a cafe and I can see they're outside in the
terrace and I'm like what it is my usual routine, I'm sitting looking at the central street over a capital of the country, like why?
in Moscow, it would feel as something very massive and gradual because Moscow is a big city.
But it's so cozy and I also like the fact that everything is so close to each other
and you can move within the city really fast.
So the language is a big part of the Russian culture for me and probably food.
I love Georgian cuisine,
hinkali, but I also like simple Russian home cuisine like buckwheat potatoes and I also cook it here and actually only here in Georgia
I learned that as a Russian I supposed to like syruki.
It is pancakes made of cottage cheese and some indbellisi here there are many cafes opened by
russians for other russians and syreniki is like a staple dish but it's funny how i didn't
know about this dish i never tried it when i was living in russia so yeah i've became a big fan
of And another question is what language do you speak the most in Georgia?
Is your Georgian as good as your English?
Of course not my Georgian is like some basic phrases so I can order a coffee I obviously can read the letters and I
can ask a taxi driver to stop but usually I speak Russian to taxi drivers.
There was only one situation for the whole my time in Georgia when a taxi driver couldn't speak Russian.
And it actually makes me to be proud of myself because yes, I am communicating in four different languages on daily basis.
I speak Russian with my friends and they lose
I speak English and watch English content and make videos in English
I speak Georgian sometimes like ordering buying something and at my Georgian classes and I speak German also at my German classes
But among these four languages German is the one that I use the least I think it's pretty cool like I would never think
that I would have this set of languages in my pocket.
Like in different times of my life there were different languages because at the University I was studying English and Chinese.
Also occasionally I would study Sorikishon Doling about already left it but yeah I just like languages it is fun.
Do you find the Georgians to be welcoming to the influx of Russians and are there any
type of social services available to those Russians in need?
How well are Russian immigrants integrating in Georgia?
Are there still tensions?
Well, I would not say that I feel comfortable.
I think Roman Novakars said it very well that as a Russian you are walking here and ballistic with this constant guilt.
Oh guys there is a plane I want to look at this.
I wonder where this plane is flying to.
Maybe it's a flying to Russia or to some European.
country.
Anyway, there is tension and it can be otherwise because there are literally territories of Georgia occupied by Russia and the Georgian government is influenced politically by the Russian
government.
This long history of colonization, erasing the Georgian culture and the language.
I come across some negative comments online or well this graffiti is on
the wall that say like no Russians are welcome or you're not a refugee you are a terrorist.
When I see this I do feel that it is directed towards me even though So I am this soy anti-pusian zoomer Russian who agrees with the political views of the
Georgian progressive people, but still somehow some of them see me as the enemy, as the representation of the wars that can come from Russia.
But, of course, I acknowledge that it's not the majority of the population and it is just
the negativity bias and I feel that everyone here is hating me.
But because if we look at the facts at what I got from Georgia, it's actually opposite.
Recently, I went to a- hospital here.
I go to clinics that is aimed specifically at Russian experts.
The Russian and Georgian doctors speak in Russian but recently for some reason I had to go to another like big private clinic but it was like fully
Georgian and I had to made some medical tests in different rooms.
In every room the doctor spoke Russian to me, even though it's not even the official language of course of this country.
And it's interesting to think how Russian steel stays lingua franca at some post-Soviet countries And how it remains here,
despite all the anti-Russian sentiments that I completely understand.
And I have not met any weird looks here.
I heard some stories from my other Russian acquaintances.
For example, one girl told me how she invited her.
from Russia to visit here in Georgia and together with another friend who is Georgian.
They to a cafe here and at that cafe they were playing the guitar and singing the song in Russian in Russian but it was done very
like silently so that even people at the nearby table could barely hear them,
but still some of these cafes guests,
Georgians, claimed to the waiter like why these Russians are singing the song in Russian here,
and then the waiter came up to this Russian friend and said to them to not sing that song.
So, there are some anecdotes like these that I have.
heard from other people but otherwise it's so unusual that despite these political tensions I have not seen any like acute conflicts here.
As we have in special integration program no I've never heard of that there are no programs
like this funded by the government but I heard that there is some non-profit organization
It is like a ten month course on the Georgian language, the the rules and it is so cool.
I even thought to apply for this,
but I thought that maybe some other Russian citizens would need this more than me because I'm going to leave Georgia anyway,
and this program is completely free.
That's why there's a limited amount of...
places so I decided to not apply for this but yeah it's cool that such things exist
and speaking of myself I don't have any Georgian friends I know how it sounds I
would not recommend this anyone if you are emigrating to a country of course you
better to have some local things friends who will help you, who will help you to understand the country.
It not my situation, although I tried to use cinder.
to find both friends and maybe a girlfriend but it was unsuccessful for me
but I think I will talk about this in my next video which will be more
personal also it is very frustrating to live in a country keeping in mind that I'm
temporary here I want to have more stability but I know that I will leave
Georgia anyway like I don't see my future here at all
another question is do you have concerns about the Georgian governments that they
might start acting like the Russian government and suppress political
activists and yeah here's the time to talk about this foreign agents law
basically it is a copy of the law that was passed in Russia in 2016 And since that time has been becoming only worse,
so that now in Russia, even charity organizations, some-profit organizations can be considered undesirable.
Or foreign agents, basically, they cannot continue their activity.
So, what happens is that the Georgian government will...
which is again tied to Russia,
has passed a similar law even though there have been huge protests in the recent months and it is obvious to everyone that Georgian people don't want
it.
But still they passed this law and now there are conversations about LGBT repressions as
well and so they are going to do the same that was in Russia.
And you think that, oh, no, you're just panicking.
You are just this soy-zoomer who wants to hate everything that is connected to Russia.
But if you read this law about the so-called traditional values, you will see where it goes.
You will see that in five or 10 years, it might be worse.
I'm so sorry that this is happening here in Georgia.
There also was a question, wow, look at this background.
There also was a question is this law aimed at me because I am a foreigner here,
but no,
you see this law will be aimed mostly at the Georgian non-profit organizations like charities or the ones that help women to escape
the domestic abuse.
I know that this law will not affect me.
What about all of these Russians in Georgia who fled Russia?
Are any of them supporting the Georgia independence movement against the Russian dreamers?
party or do they just continue to support the imperialism of the Russian state?
I feel that we Russian citizens who moved here to Georgia mostly were like the best of the best.
I mean of course there are very good decent people who stayed in Russia but I have not met any Yeah,
there are some,
might be some people, who moved to Georgia from Russia to just avoid the conscription and go into the war, which is already good.
Maybe people are those who are sitting on the fence and didn't protest the Russian government before.
strongly, but still.
Another very common narrative I heard is that if now there will be many Russians in Georgia,
Putin will use this as an excuse to invade Georgia.
But here's the thing that you have to understand.
In the discourse of the Russian propaganda,
the one that they show to our citizens on the TV, people me, like like Zag, like Alina, we are traitors for them.
They literally call us rats.
They call us soil liberals on the TV who betrayed their motherland.
They say that it's good that people like myself left
country and even I often get comments from the Russians that say don't return to Russia.
There was a situation when Putin did use the Russian population as an excuse, which was in the eastern Ukraine, in the Donbas region.
Yes, but us, it's not like this.
The is rather doom.
Putin and doesn't need a reason to invade a country.
Maybe I'm just excusing myself too much, but honestly, I don't think that my presence in Georgia is making any danger to this country.
Another question is what happens when your international passport expires?
Is it possible that the government will refuse to renew it?
It's a very interesting question because I still have some years before the expiration of my passport
and now it is still possible to get a new one in the thing that is called section at the Embassy of Switzerland in Sbilisi.
But I'm scared that in some years it might be impossible because we better study the example of Belarus.
What is happening for their citizens?
Hey!
Wow.
such a positive moment on such a negative note.
But yeah,
what's happening to the citizens of Belarus is that they just cannot ring you,
they are documents,
they are passports without returning to the country,
and you know many of them as well as Russians might face criminal persecution once they go to the territory of the country.
So it is really hard to live with the realization that your government wants to kill you.
government that is supposed to help you abroad to be your friend, they are a danger, they are the main danger for you.
Wow, there are three guys now.
Oh god.
Also, a question, where can you travel without a visa?
Well, I can go to many south easy.
Asian countries, Latin America, Central Asia, African countries, Middle East, but none of them are on my list.
There is another interesting question about Georgia.
What the big difference between Russians and Georgia's mentality?
And don't like the word mentality when speaking about different peoples, especially in Russian, this word mentally yet.
People say that this is just our mentality and climate, yeah.
They the climate and the fact that Russians are lazy.
and being ruled by an authoritarian leader is also in our genes which is a
complete nonsense but probably the first obvious thing that comes to my mind
speaking about Georgian people is their hospitality but here I want to make a disclaimer because I feel bad about this stereotype because Because,
well, there is a huge problem, the political influence and the tension that exists here in Georgia towards Russians, I wish I was a Georgian person who would experience
this hospitality from the first hand, but I only can see it as a tourist and as a young girl.
And, of course...
I'll be treated nicely and I am treated nicely here.
I, as I said, never had any rudeness.
Yeah, I remember only one drunk man in a restaurant, but I don't count that.
You know, it's like being Lao Wei in China.
You will never be local here.
I don't want to.
realize and say that oh like they're so kind because well we can say this
about any nation and I don't want to look like this traditional Orthodox Americans who
moved to Russia with their 10 children and start YouTube channel filming washed
Moscow streets and
saying how everything is so perfect and Russian people they might be called at the first side but
once you get to know them better you see their true Russian soul and this is so cringy disgusting
I think it's some like cringy boomer attitude like obviously you can say this
about any country but haven't said that I still want to give appreciation to the
Georgian hospitality because it is a thing and so Georgians are very proud of this and in their like legends a guest is a god.
I feel I didn't say enough because well it is difficult for me to assess this hospitality but why not to talk about this as my experience as
a guest and I see this warmness in the Georgian people's attitude towards me
for example when I buy something in Georgian but they hear that I'm Russian
very often they swear English so that it's more convenient to me,
and very often they cheer me up,
compliment my attempts to say something they say like, good job, and it is so pleasant to hear this.
There is still some difference that I don't know how to explain,
but one of them is a attitude to children, because it is a very family oriented.
culture and people care about children here so much.
So if you're looking for these notorious traditional values, you can find them in Georgia.
And it is common to keep connections with your relatives and to beat them.
And Georgian girl told me that cousins also considered it as your siblings.
so that it is not uncommon to visit weddings or holidays of your cousins,
so they are treated as a very close family,
but I don't want to idealize this country and say that,
oh, the family value, because like the same Georgian girl told me about the abuse that she saw in
your family,
how your father,
father was beaten here,
or it is well known how Georgian men cheat on their women, well probably women cheat on their husbands too, but more often it's men.
Yeah, I mean it's like everywhere, but at the same time family has so much money.
And also another difference in municipalities,
and think it's as well connected to the idea of hospitality,
is the fact that Georgia is a very small country on the intersection of different nations and trade routes.
Being and hospitable was the only way for Georgian people to survive.
arrive basically for centuries.
Of course they also were fighting because there are many castles and fortresses.
I'm trying to think what it's like to live in such a small country when everybody visits you,
sometimes with violence and you have to navigate these difficult intergovernmental relationships and you have to be open.
to other countries.
That's why many Georgians hear young people know English very well.
Some them know Russian, but mostly it's the elderly people.
And I think it is another difference compared to Russia, where you are basically in a huge country.
It definitely does something to your worldview when you grow up.
in such a big country because,
of course,
I was told at school that Russia is so great,
Russia expanded to the east,
Russia conquered Kazan and settled in the Far East,
not just colonized and erased the native people, you we settled there and we brought our Is Georgia more liberal than Russia and why?
Well, despite the close connections to the Russian government, still Georgia for me is just the chain of democracy compared to Russia.
I so shocked that I can go to protest here when I moved here in 2022.
I'm so shocked that
there are no yet homophobic laws and even there is an LGBT movies section on
Netflix and you can watch movies that depict known hetero relationships there
and I was like wow it would be so cool if I came across this like 10 years ago
in Russia and we also can answer this question by looking at the rating of press freedom.
Russia is 162?
Well, yes, not surprised.
Georgia is 103 and Armenia, I was shocked, 43rd place.
Like, wow, Armenia out to be even more like Liberal and Freer, the The next question is about Sbilisi.
What do I love about the city the most?
And I would say that I love the comfort that the city
And also the fact that Georgia being a post-Soviet country looks so familiar to me.
So these houses, I'm used to seeing them, but at the same time the historical center is very beautiful and looks so medieval.
another question.
What the funniest and fun things that you've seen in Georgia?
One of the them is probably dogs as you might have heard.
Well, it is sad that there are so many of them, but at the same time it gives some atmosphere to the city.
I hope in the future there will be better programs for the stray animals and there will be fewer of them,
but here now there are so many dogs still.
Another thing I would say is illegal home extensions.
Like there is a meme trending now on TikTok and Instagram about a guy John who is making an
like one square meter and he's using this galvanized steel frame and screws borrowed from his aunt.
So having watched all these TikToks I once saw the same but with the Georgian houses and I was like oh my god so accurate because here
in Georgia I don't know how it is now but maybe 10 or 20 years
ago it was more common when people would add up an adstick to their house without
obviously agreeing it with the authorities or there's a house in the Varkitila district
where a whole entrance is basically collapsing and they built some things to keep it.
it is so crazy but yeah and another thing I would point out is Georgian store names that are
dubbed in English and it is very cool I think I will even show you one example you see right here
so in Georgian it's called a ray and there is some small plate saying tomorrow and to the
left it is like a transcription of this word by Georgian letter so literally
if you read it it is RIE and even the word tomorrow is transcribed so it
is literally two more and here is another example so this store it's called
and I've just pronounced it with the hard Georgian sound because there's another one.
Soft sound, oh wow, check out this cool graffiti there.
I also got a question, was it difficult for me to learn the Georgian alphabet?
And well,
with this technique that I invented for myself,
It's easy,
you just see the name written in English already and if you are in the process of learning the letters,
you will understand this and it is so cool, I would recommend this to you.
If you are in Georgia and you want to learn the language, you can use these methods.
It sounds like,
given your passport and visa situation,
you can go to a western countries, are you basically going to settle in Georgia, other enough opportunities to make a living.
Well, for me, I can make a living here and I'm so grateful to this country that I managed to set up the individual entrepreneurship
here and I paid just one percent of tax, can you imagine?
I am well of here in Georgia, but as for continuing living here, as I said, it is just impossible for me.
With the direction that country is moving to now,
again, coming closer to Russia, adopting more oppressive authoritarian laws, and well,
Anyway, if I wanted to stay in Georgia, I would be so hard on studying Georgian, but I don't want to motivation to it.
I have been doing this for half a year now,
wow, but I only can order coffee and I have a big fear of missing out that I'm basically wasting my time here.
I'm not kind of invest in my time and my energy into getting a passport of a new country,
I'm just living here because so far it is comfortable for me but I'm paying for this comfort with some FOMO as well.
Has Georgia changed the way you want to live or do you try to move the life you
would have pursued in the free Russia to Georgia?
For example here in Georgia I just like to participate in some short educational programs.
I once visited a human rights school here when we went to a today's workshop and I learned so much about human rights,
I became more tolerant.
Also, I visited a debate school with the same organization.
I often visit public discussions or some movie screenings and I think I would do the same in Russia.
And what is more, I mean, so many cool people here.
in Georgia I mean Russian citizens like myself and probably I wouldn't be even able to meet them
if I lived in Russia so yeah this is the life that I kind of created for myself and also
Georgia and being an immigrant here changed my opinion about immigrants because I would say some like,
oh, why this working immigrants from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan come to our country, their committing crimes, like blah, blah, which is totally not true, and well,
Russian immigration policy is a nightmare, and I mean how the Russian government is doing nothing to integrate.
these people there are labor slaves and there is no programs for integrating immigrants in Russia
there must be like free learning courses of the Russian language but this all is not present
there and now I have nothing but respect to immigrants who come to another country and they're so hard working
they to build their new life, learn a new language.
So, yeah, my attitude changed.
Where do you want to be in five years and if you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live and why?
Well, as I said in my previous video, ideally, I would like to be in Russia, speak in the Russian language and of course it would be
possible only with another regime and in five years I think I will be in some European country.
The only variant I have with Portugal because they have a good digital visa program.
I don't know any other opportunities.
Yes, there is a possibility to apply to some university in Germany, for example.
But I feel so stupid.
Like I don't understand the academia world and I don't see myself.
in any field.
Yes, I said it in my videos two years ago, three years ago, but really my only job is this YouTube channel and I have some skills in editing, I have also film and experience but
I'm not a in this, I make a lot of mistakes and I don't want to be like in the field.
industry and I don't know what I am good for I feel completely useless yes it's
typical youtuber but I kind of already fought this imposter syndrome and I
realized that making videos is also not easy and if it is a job that gives me satisfaction and good income.
Why not to continue to do this?
So now I'm in this stage of my life when I just want to continue making videos,
whether it will be about Russia and news from there.
My travel,
my Russian experience of other countries,
And I feel that my linguistics bachelor's degree from a university in Hobartovsk is so useless,
like the quality of that education,
I feel that I would want to get some proper, some decent education, not from a Russian university with Soviet programs.
interested in sociology, in anthropology, as well as social studies, I think, yes.
I also got some questions, would you want to live in the United States?
And I would say no, but I would change my answer if I just was presented an opportunity to have a green card there.
I know so many people who moved there and built their life.
It is a dream of an immigrant.
Yes, people said that American dream is dying now and I'm aware of the housing crisis.
But still, you from us people from Eastern Europe who have seen shit, still the opportunities that the United States give, it's still amazing.
The problem I have is the anxiety that the gun situation has given me.
I heard that there are areas that you must not visit because it's dangerous.
And also another reason why I would not live in the United States is suburbia and car dependency over America cities and again I feel so incompetent
like I don't understand the corporate world.
A good friend of mine constantly tells me about your attempts of finding a job but she has a degree in marketing,
business, counts and all the stuff.
I understand anything.
I know guys.
I don't know what I will be doing at this point.
I will just make money from YouTube, save up and hope that somehow I will not die under a fence.
But still I'm so scared to move to another country now because Well,
I have been living in Georgia for a year and a half now.
I know the places specifically for Russian immigrants.
I am already used to this country and to go through the whole process of moving to another country again.
Like I know that I will be able to do this.
I know that I
have money from this channel and I'm strong to do this and also studying
Georgian made me to understand that it would be so easy for me to study some
European language that at least comes from the same language family as Russian
and if I'm learning Georgian just for fun if I go to Portugal,
I think it would be easier and more possible to integrate into the local society and speak in the language there.
I'm also scared that what if I move to some European country there will be not many
Russian immigrants like myself because Georgia being so comfortable for us.
Here there are a lot of people like myself but in another country like will I have to become a Portuguese,
read the local news, participate in their elections?
Like would be such a hard work to learn the country's history and I
don't know if I ever will be able to feel at home there.
I know when I eventually will end up in some EU country or maybe in the United States but so far I'm here.
Well, my camera battery is exhausted, but luckily I'm able to continue filming from my phone.
I want to answer another question, like why am I not asking for a political asylum in the United States or Europe?
Well, guys, this is my last resort, because like
aware of all these stories from the refugee camps in the Netherlands or how you have to
cross a border to the United States from Mexico through some underground tunnels and
dirty rivers and it sounds also scary and honestly I don't want to do that.
So there was a question, what's a European country I would love to visit?
Who's there?
I think there's some rabbit or a snake.
What European country I would like to visit if I could.
And well, I have some news.
because as you know from my videos I recently got a Georgian residence permit
which enables me to apply for a shangan visa from Georgia without having to go to Russia.
No, but who are you?
I to know what kind of animal has been accompanying me.
Guys, do you hear this?
Maybe it is a frog?
No.
Okay.
They're shy.
And of my travel to Europe, yes, I am going to try to get there just as a tourist.
And now I'm in the process of applying.
I will make a video about this.
well.
And speaking of countries that I want to visit, oh my god, all of them.
I would like to see Greenland, which is like Denmark, but I found out that you cannot visit it with Schengen visa.
Also, I would like to see Poland.
I don't know why,
but just like Slavic brotherhood and also I had some experience over hearing Polish language when I was
in the Warsaw airport and Scandinavian countries as well.
I don't know for some reason the south of Europe is not on my list yet because
you know I have a very limited time but I will update you on that in my videos
later stay tuned every cloud has a silver lining and now oh my god look at this So this is the end of my video.
I that it was interesting.
Thank you for watching.
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Thank you very much I really appreciate your support guys, and I will see you very soon.
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