Is this my hometown? Life in provincial Russia after 9 months of sanctions 

His salary is much above the average

That is complete nonsense. You’ll not live the life of luxury, but you can easily live on an average salary, especially if you also add child benefits that are almost universal in all European countries. Also, 100k salary in Russia is hardly average outside of larger cities like Moscow or St.Petersburg. For example, reported average monthly salary in Pskov was 25,925 RUB

@@PavelD83 No you cannot...With 2000 euros net salary (already above average) in The Netherlands, you cannot financially support 3 kids, wife, house and car...No way!!!

@@scientifically5812 €2000 is way below average salary in Netherlands, it seems your assumption is based on incorrect information

In Norway, on 1 income it would be impossible without the help from social welfare.

Exactly! Glad you appreciate my work. Thanks for the sub 🤝

Hi, Asep! Glad to have you on this channel and thank you for sharing 🤝

@@RealReporter No worries. Done. I subscribed to your channel already 🙂

AS a malaysia can I ask? Is asep your real name?

Hi Paul, well then I guess you won't mind having such people for neighbours, right? BTW what's the brand of your washing machine?

His father is killing and raping innocent people in other country. You sure you want the terrorist to survive?

May the invader get what he deserves -a new career as fertiliser in Ukraine.

"We all believe in him" -- sure hope he get's his dad back home safe. God willing.

@@ernestoherreralegorreta137Most likely he is already dead. The average survival rate for russian terrorists for 3 months is 15-20%.

@@kidra81 He isn't even deployed to the front yet. Surely you're confused by the survival statistics of the Ukranian army soldiers...or with the probabilities of your own survival (as a presumed Estonian citizen) if and when the SHTF and the russian army wipes your puny country to oblivion.

Thank you! Glad you liked it

Да, это так. Полностью согласна. Видео достоверное, объективное, снято отлично. Всё могу подтвердить. Я из Сибири. Автор- профи.

Well, this bunch of kids is quite rare here. Guys are religious and this is a key. 100K rubles is GOOD salary per person even in Moscow but for couple with 4 kids it's a...challenge to live on this money, yes.

​​​@@Mary0Kule На 100000 можно довольно не плохо жить, даже с 4 детьми в провинции. Конечно денег всегда может быть мало, даже миллиона. Смотря на что тратить. Вызовом бы не назвал.

@@DarmoeD88 Как ежемесячный бюджет? Да, можно. Без особых излишеств, но вполне. А вот создавать еще накопления на возможные нужды 6 лиц с такого дохода - это уже не влезет.

Nobody wants to go back to the 80s lol.

@@insightful3452-mq7bl then you must live under a rock. There is so much nostalgia to do with the simpsons, and shows from the 80s, which accurately presented how life was like in America. Also America instead of going down a more liberal path for a second saw the conservative movement begin, and America become slightly more of a conservative society. You forget that basically hippies were killed off during this era, American classics like Star Wars were released. America became greedy and globalistic after the 80s, so the 80s is remembered as a very good era in America.

My parents went to Ireland last year I heard y'all are rich now lol

@@leahflower9924 Celtic Tiger made a big difference, yea.

Ireland supports the Ukrainians because the criminal war crimes that the Russian army commits are against civilized values.

Oh sure you’re irish. “As a bla bla bla” I can make up a story in the comments section of youtube and get some likes and validation before I go back to playing computer games.

Oh sure you’re irish. “As a bla bla bla” I can make up a story in the comments section of youtube and get some likes and validation before I go back to playing computer games.

да, мальчик очень взрослый для своего возраста, видно, что родители хорошо воспитали

респект его родителям!

And now his father is dead. Poor boy.

@@jere4352 bot agane

@@er5hy а что такое нормальное будущее? definition?

Спасибо! Очень рад, что вам понравилось видео !

Но его и правда стало гораздо меньше

Сначала он будет убивать украинских женщин и детей

He died in Bakhmut.

@@jere4352 bot

@@ЗонаНагваля Nah.

@@jere4352 ahah))) russian bot

было видно, что ему сложно отвечать на этот вопрос на камеру. наверняка за кадром он сказал что-то вроде "ты ведь понимаешь, что я не могу сказать на камеру что я на самом деле думаю, также не могу сказать, что поддерживаю. если не посадят, то как минимум может на бизнесе отразиться". но для властей - вот еще один поддерживающий курс государства в копилку. и так и выходит, что якобы большинство поддерживают государственный курс. более того, и сам народ в это верит. а потом окажется, что большинство просто старались "не отсвечивать"

Thanks for sharing! I can only imagine what it felt like seeing your perceived enemies in a completely different friendly setting. All of us have a lot in common If we put politics aside

@@RealReporter Hi Константин, yes, and we exchanged pictures of our respective families - it was an "eye opener". I forgot to mention, thank you for informing Westerners and educating us on the life of the "every day" Russian/former Soviet Union citizen. At the Naval War College (Newport, RI) back in the eighties, we were educated (properly hopefully) on how the incredible trauma and sacrifices the Soviet population suffered during the "Great Patriotic War" influenced the fears, reactions, and policies of a generation of Soviet citizens. Ciao, L большое спасибo!

@@lancelot1953 thx for sharing your story buddy. At the end of the day we're all humans and the rulers of this world are playing us, dividing us so they'll make the best profit. Said that we are wasting our short lives on senseless wars and hatered instead of simply enjoying lives and trying to get along with each others. All the best to you!

Yet here you( I don't mean you personally) are in 2022 sitting on the Russian border, fueling every war conflict on the Russian perimeter. US army/navy is a colonial mob hired by US oligarchs to commit genocide and robbery, covered by hypocrisy about democracy and freedom. With a very few exceptions. Good thing though, Russia is now smart enough not to believe in your BS about "good will" and other cheap manipulations. Russia is breaking your strongest proxy - neo-nazi Ukraine - as we speak, and the world is watching. After Russia is done, the world will be a completely different place, just like after WW2. Only this time you're on the wrong side of history. Russians are doing all they can so that there are no more mid-nineties, when we were lead to believe we acquired new friends, while in fact it was the same old enemy who used our trust to stab us in the back. Thank you for the lesson though, we shouldn't be that naive if not plain stupid if we want to continue our 1000 year old civilization.

@@sergeipad8001 Hi Serge, are you Russian? If so, educate me (or us). I have seen war, I survived three wars including Afghanistan where I fought in similar conditions with similar outcome as the Russian military. What happened in the mid-nineties (what you referred to). I lived the Oct 1962 crisis (Cuba) with the alerts, where we had to go run for cover, I do not want the conflict to escalate to open hostilities against Russia; I played "cat-and-mouse" scenarios enough years with the former Soviet Union to know that in such a war, everybody looses. Ciao, from USA, L

Thank you! Really glad you liked my approach! There are more videos coming right up 👌

It’s not journalism, it’s propaganda!

Hey hey! Good to hear from you, friend! Life of ordinary people isn’t getting better anywhere, that’s sadly true. Thanks for updating on what’s been going on in your neck of the woods. Always a pleasure to read your comments 🤝

Good things, since alcohol is vital goods for Russians 😂

@@SuperBechti особенно импортный)

I should add : cheap alcool. When we look at the Russian generals vs American onces, there are no extra comments to be made. On one side you have fat bald drunks who are where they are not because of their compétences but because they are friends with the dwarf and the other side you have charismatic and educated gentlemen graduated from West Point

​@@SuperBechti Я почему то не пью и не курю. Наверное с Марса прилетел.

@@DarmoeD88 translate, please

Thank you, Lars! Yeah, the boy really broke my heart. Let’s hope this war will end soon and he’ll see his father again

@@RealReporter hope means someone else should come and fix things for me and I am not going to do anything just sit back and hope fro the best :) wonder after why life is so sh…t??? I was hoping for things to get better for so long! 😂

@@ryanm2332 а ты лично что сделал чтобы остановить войну? Сплошной пиздежь,а толку ноль с тебя,убогий🥱

Thanks for sharing! I really hope you can travel here and have your own opinion about Russia

Yep, that’s really touching

How interesting. This boy’s father went to foreign country to kill some other boy farther, or mother, or a boy. Why your heart doesn’t go for victims of Russian aggression?

Hope occupant returns home in black bag.

Спасибо, рад что вам нравятся мои видео! Английским я просто увлекался всю жизнь, был пару раз в США, но никогда там не жил

@@RealReporter ну ничего себе, никогда бы не подумала! Вы очень талантливы, я еще никого не встречала с таким произношением, кто не родился и не прожил в стране.

Да, тоже заметила безупречное произношение, даже не сразу поверила, что это русский человек говорит

@@RealReporter такое впечатление, что вы живете в США. Супер репортаж!

@@RealReporter огого!!!! видео супер, акцент просто потрясный. а живете в россии или практикуете его еще где то?

Thank you! I'm so glad to hear that you've found value and interest in my work. Comments like these motivate me to keep going! 🤝

Thank you for saying this! 🤝

Just a little sus 🤔

You mean a person with the qualifier “real” doesn’t quell your concerns of their legitimacy? /s

I worked in Russia for 20 years and Kazakhstan Turkmanistan, who are you reporting from Moscow is not the centre of the world. It’s an island in Russia so please report one hour away from Russia. Go on the train and have a look then report the realities of Russia. Moscow in the past is the home of the people who signed documents if you wanted in the past to do anything anywhere in Russia, you had to go to Moscow for a signature this was done by the yes-men from the far end of Russia, they went to Moscow for a week for the highlife

Based on not having any accent, he likely NOT a Russian, but is a U.S. citizen who emigrated here when quite young. Russian friends from his youth probably joke with him about his accented Russian.

@@LovatClement Well, the video you just commented on was filmed in a typical provincial neighborhood far away from Moscow 🤷🏼‍♂️

Мой родной город! Спасибо, рад что вам понравилось 🤝

I was touched by this boy too. Thank you for this comment. Take care!

Yeah) The "idea for the greater good". Most russians don't understand that.

Thank you for the feedback

Absolutely! Thanks for the feedback. I’m blessed to have such subscribers like you

how do you know it is honest and non-biased? do you live in Russia?

@@markspencer4385 and you? :)

I really enjoyed it to. The bit at the end when the guy says I don't understand why the west 'shot itself in the foot'. That's easy. Russia invaded Ukraine and western Europe doesn't want Putin to take over there.

@@Andy-P You are not the first person from whom I hear about some kind of Putin's invasion of Europe, can you please tell me in more detail what Western propaganda is telling about this and what arguments are being given?

How does it contribute?

and that’s the best strategy

What else to do, but keep on keeping on!

don't worry, soon russia will be ready to draft children too, so the two will see each other faster than they think

Could you tell what your heart is saying about UA boy, which lost his home because of such "family fathers"? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9ekv3-ypGCE.html

My heart goes out with all those people of Ukraine who have been raped by Ruzzian soldiers.

​@@civzation471я бы на твоем месте перестал быть наивным человеком которому в голову как в унитаз в общественном туалете испорожняются все кому это хочется. Выздоравливай.

Химмаш форева 💪😁

​@@RealReporter так вы наш оказывается🎉 я уехал в Москву из верхней Пышмы.

​​@@RealReporter отличное видео! Привет с втузгородка! Хотя я родом из области свердловской, но переехал в Екатеринбург, познакомившись с женой. А так много куда ездил и даже жил в регионах России

@@Zormos Спасибо!

@@artem_tot Тоже удивился,что он с ЕКБ) И я тоже с Пышмы)

Він вже у мішку

Які ж ви дeгeнepaти😂

@@Kovalainenn а че тогда вы территории про***бываете? ахахаха)

Usa, europe, ukraine, everybody wants that, a speedy return home for invading russians. Unfortunately Putin does not want to return the troops and you russians do not care.

@@sanyafrag1 Вообще то возвращают. Российские войска птицей вылетели из под Киева, Чернигова, Сум, острова Змеиного, им организовали Харьковский и Херсонский драп. Сейчас ВСУ хоть и медленно но НАСТУПАЮТ.

Love the reporting, man! You're what we call, an "independent journalist." Stay safe! Hope you don't get drafted!

and then all this positive comments, a little sus

Not enough apparently.

i think they know they are the victim of a US/UK proxy war and have been since at least 2014, how are you not aware of this? After a million dead in the middle east and maghreb to secure oil supply and the petro dollar, do you really believe our media?

@@notrocketscience1950 Are you talking about what Russia did in Aleppo? The west made the mistake to trust Russia while we Poles always knew their true faces.

@@tomkruk2585 well Russia saved the Syrian government and decreased US provoked instability in the region. There were 2 Gulf wars, Syria, the rise of ISIS, Afhanistan (for 20 years or carnage) and the uprising in Libya - I hope you have heard of these as it was pure murder for oil and compliance.

You are the impostor.

God? Which one?

@@bencebalint1956 Odin

Why do the Russian people, or these Russians who participate in or encourage this system, want to give Russia such a devilish reputation in the world and in history? How can anybody ever trust Russians again? Any Russian? It makes people frightened of Russians, and distrust and be disgusted with the Russian people. And this is terrible. It is not fair for the good Russians. …I mean, what kind of a nation do you want Russia to become? What kind? In the whole world, how can you face anybody on this planet? Think about it! Go home! Go back to Russia and apologize to the whole world! Hopefully, humans will forgive you.

@@starlight27277 How can anybosy trust America again after Vietnam? The Tonkin incident was a lie. Look, every country has its own interests: The US, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, France ... Do you really belive none of them would lie, to reach their own goals? Therefore it is important to listen to everybody and then carefully pick the right information. This includes the Russian side to. If you leave somebody out, your view will be one-sided.

At present fuel in Norway is about USD 2.30 for gasoline(95) and 2.45 for dieselfuel per litre. Most of new cars sold are now electric.

Gas in California is still over 5 ,except Costco, where it's ,4.99

😝 3.35USD is almost what we payed per LITRE for Shell V-Power a month ago! Prices are further down now.

The important thing to know, are you paid $1300 a month like this guy in the factory and live in a country with no social contract?

Да врет он все. Пропаганда чистой воды.

My daughter in Ukraine has missed school and has sirens daily because this boys father can’t resist !!!

@@buddyrojek9417 I agree, I feel sorry for the children in Ukraine that have no house over their head and could be bombed at any moment. This kid lives in a warm house without fear of being murdered.

I'm worried how many Ukrainian women his father has raped and what he and his comrades have destroyed there.

Well, you can go home and not fight and dye.

@@jasonk6321 Do you feel sorry for the children of Donbass? Especially those who have died under Ukrainian rockets and shells in the past 8 years? Just wondering...

Каждому мобилизованному из россии бесплатный импортный пакет в Украине🤣

@@ОлександрМороз-ш5й Щеня вмерла? Сало Уронили!

Good to see a nice comment! 😁

Thank you very much!

For the feeble-minded, the Commission of the European Union established that Georgia started the war in 2008. This document is easily googled. This is the first thing. Secondly, Georgian soldiers killed peacekeepers from the Russian Federation, whose presence was coordinated with Georgia itself. This alone gave the Russian side a reason to declare war on Georgia. That's why, stupid, you can shove your question down your throat.

Ах да, я твой ник не сразу прочитал. Ты же грызун, к сожалению ещё живой. Не добили тебя в 2008. Живи. Пока... 😂

Thanks for a compassion, but responsible for children becoming orphans on both sides are those, who sends more and more weapons to fight to the last Ukrainian. Also those, who didn't and still don't see what Ukrainian government do to their own people.

@Nadejda Gvozdova I would say the men who choose to make use of those weapons are also responsible, particularly those that do so willingly.

@@Bdbtg28691 yes, those men, that willingly killing civilians, including children since 2014, are needed to be stopped.

У тебя очень странное чувство юмора. Обратись к доктору, если тебе это по карману😊

Very well put. Agree 100%

wtf is wrong with you guys? his dad went to kill other people for no reason..by his own will. Where's the place for empathy here? People who are scared in this video... are the 'innocent' who supported killing Ukrainians all of this time... 6+ months, before Ukraine started to fight back. Living just 50km away from the border, visiting Kharkiv weekly/monthly - they were all laughing when bombs used to fall on Ukrainian houses ... only on Ukrainian houses.

@@whatnot3195 What do you mean who is innocent? The child is! That child has no clue what war is in reality. Many countries have been tricked into horrible wars, and while this day and age its easier to find out via internet, some of these men were forced to go. Not everyone, especially with families can up and leave. Some may plan to surrender but not get the chance. We don't know their idiology, and even if they believe in the war, that child is going to believe what he's told! Children will believe in Santa, so of course they'll believe daddy is a hero. Not his fault at all. So yes, he deserves empathy. He doesn't deserve that pain. We are able to have multiple complex emotions at the same time. To quote a Ukrainian soldier I heard speaking of the mobilized he has/will (possibly) killed and their families, "I pity them, but I have no regret." I wish my own country did more for Ukraine, which is what causes these children to lose their fathers, but I still feel for them and also get that children in Ukraine are far worse off.

Sadly true-there seems to be no way out of this impasse at the moment,Putin,from his point of view, cannot back down because the 1st question to be asked would be so why did we start this ?and the war just grinds on with deaths/injuries and destruction.

@@whatnot3195 Totally agree with you. I believe there are a lot of people in Russia who have their head buried in the sand. I know people have to get on with their lives and have lives as normal especially when they have children but the interviews of Russian prisoners on YT shows the ignorance they started this war with. Most thought they were only on manoeuvres, were surprised when they were in Ukraine and Ukrainians from their own diaspora were telling them to go home and stop hurting their own people. We have refuges here in the UK, my friend looks after one who is a midwife with a two year old so she left Ukraine for her child's safety. Her mother is also a midwife who stayed in Ukraine but had terrible stories about Russian soldiers raping women because they come into the clinic for abortions rather than births. WAKE UP RUSSIA and think about the generations of hatred you are making in Ukraine. Stop being a militaristic society where the best way out of poverty is to joint the forces. Stop taking you children and training them for war. Stop believing propaganda which is clearly from unstable people. My family lived through Nazism and how it perverted and destroyed us. Don't do the same to your families.

He does pronounce some words wrong, but it is barely noticeable, esp. at first, as he speaks English exceptionally well.

@@francophone. I remembered when I heard instructors who lived in Israel pronounced some American words wrong. And even now with some of the RU-vids I watch, i really get upset that they don't pronounce words "correctly" . So I've been using the dictionary and have found that frequently they're pronunciation is just as appropriate as mine is. So I always laugh at myself when I believe that there's only one way things should be. Laughing at oneself certainly seems to me to relax my stress at what happens in our world.

@@NaomiCurtis No, he has a slight non-native accent. Maybe he has a parent who is American or Canadian or something, in which case he could be a native speaker, but still have a slight foreign accent.

Hi all. Of course some Russians learn English from British teachers so some of the pronunciation will be different.

@@judiths5269 That is not so much the issue (he may mix things up a bit, but not much). So that is not the main problem.

Thank you! And welcome onboard 🤝

The western help is helping ukrainians die. Do you think Russia would stop if it sees that there're too much weaponry in a city or village and, like, say "Oh, it seems we cant fullfill orders anymore, lets go home"? You are braindead? They will, as US did in Iraq, launch artillery strike on the village and nullify EVERYTHING, from people to infrastructure. The western media would have another "great report" on damage inflicted, would abuse the "picture of a crying kid" to send more arms, process repeats. The more "help" ukraine recieves the more imminent the losses become. Or do you think that for Russia there's a limit of how many people it can allow to die? Have you ever took history lessons at school? I guess not. А ещё скажи мне, Ира, почему Европейцы ОКЕЙ и не против демократической смерти 600 тысяч людей в Иракской войне, по заявлению Ланцета, самого авторитетного НАУЧНОГО журнала медицины? Вы готовы к смерти 600 тысяч украинцев? Русские готовы, мы больше не братские народы.

Then you should subscribe and watch other videos! 😁 Glad you’re enjoying the content

@@RealReporter already did

Thank you! Really glad to hear that and to have you on this channel 🤝

Yes, he has exposed the complete indifference toward their genocidal war and a lack any sympathy for the mass destruction and suffering they are causing in Ukraine. I’m going to throw up next time I hear “it’s the government, not the regular people’s fault”.

@@JordanA101 100%

@@JordanA101 War causes people to die on both sides. No need for throwing up and virtue signaling.

@@boleslawthegreat You didn't understand his comment. War is already a conclusion. The point behind his comment was that one side is making this war possible. Without russians, there would be no war. If russians stop fighting there will be no war, if ukrainians stop fighting there will be no more Ukraine. You cannot treat both sides as equal.

@@kidra81 @kidra81 Actually what you said above is not true, as both sides make this war possible - three in fact - with the US at the forefront waging what is essentially a proxy war (with another $44bln recently sent on top of the previous $50bln). War equals profit for the war machine/industry (read large arms contractors).

Good point! Honestly, there’s a good chance that it’s paid by the Russian state

yeah, I think this video suits the regime just a little too well, I wonder if he really is doing this all by himself ...

I feel bad for the Russian troops. They’re victims of circumstance. BUT Ukraine is fighting for democracy everywhere ✌️🇺🇦👍

@@kathleenmann7311 I don't feel for the Russians troops they came to kill and many have tortured and killed civilans

Human relations are of no importance to psychopathic leaders like putin. To them people are just 'human capital' to be expended for their personal goals.

Thousands of children kidnapped from Ukraine and resettled in Russia is one of the most disturbing things among all the atrocities of this war.

Human...russians don't act like humans.

В мире ВСЕГДА, ЕЖЕДНЕВНО, ЕЖЕЧАСНО - где-то и кого-то убивают. И нередко - вполне массово. И что ты предлагаешь, чучелко ?

Thank you!

Hey, Pablo! Glad to have a subscriber from Argentina 🤝

"even with the economy falling down, life continues" yeah, ppl in n*zi death camps also said "despite death and cruelty, life countinues" ;)

This is also self imposed restrictions by,plutten.