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[00:01:41] очень спокойно, такое чувство,
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[00:02:03] a
[00:03:03] "I caught
[00:03:03] of up with Derek after he signed a contract with the Russian Army.
[00:03:07] Naturally, my first question was, what motivated a
[00:03:10] 45-year-old American with three kids to put a Russian military
[00:03:14] uniform? I didn't just want to come and stay and take five
[00:03:18] or six years to get it, I wanted to actually earn it,
[00:03:22] um, earn our place in
[00:03:25] Russia, um, to show the country, our neighbors, our
[00:03:28] friends, the world that..." "we're loyal here, we want to be
[00:03:32] a here,
[00:03:34] of and um, you know, we're
[00:03:35] of honored to be here. there's training days are long gone,
[00:03:39] and he's now literally instrumental in one
[00:03:41] of the army's repair battalions fighting
[00:03:44] in a special military operation. that was his dream and intention
[00:03:48] when he initially signed up to use his professional expertise to the
[00:03:52] fullest extent in order to help his military comrades.
[00:03:56] i think
[00:03:56] in a repair battalion, um, all the the cages." that
[00:04:00] for drone protection, all the grills i can, i can build those with
[00:04:04] my eyes close, um, i used to fabricate uh real real fancy
[00:04:08] doors,
[00:04:09] a fence, very similar in construction, so yes, i think as a
[00:04:13] welder and fabricator, i could really contribute to the
[00:04:16] army, and that's where i hope to contribute, derick says that he and
[00:04:20] his wife made the decision
[00:04:22] of to emigrate to Russia together, following introductory trip to
[00:04:26] Moscow, they made up their minds, sold everything
[00:04:29] in the United. states packed up their belongings and just
[00:04:32] left. Derek had accepted the fact that he might not ever
[00:04:36] see some of his stateside family ever again. His main
[00:04:40] concern are his own wife and children whom he doesn't want
[00:04:43] indoctrinated by the so-called liberal propaganda targeting
[00:04:47] children. We knew we wanted to leave
[00:04:49] of America um and when we when we realized that that was where it was
[00:04:53] okay, where could we even go, because all the western countries are the
[00:04:57] a same, and I saw youtube video uh... the president Putin is
[00:05:01] Santa Claus and there's a little kid
[00:05:05] praying for Christmas wishes and there's there's LGBT books on the
[00:05:08] counter, gay parents, and I think the...
[00:05:12] might even be a boy might even be a dress possibly and president
[00:05:16] Putin the Santa Claus swoops in and uh
[00:05:19] you know boom everything changes and then there's a there's a new picture
[00:05:22] with a father and mother the books are gay books are gone there's a
[00:05:26] football and uh he answered the kids prayer
[00:05:30] and um and that really resonated with me because um i was like
[00:05:34] okay well they they feel the same way russias like like our morals
[00:05:38] you know they don't like gay and lesbian stuff and um
[00:05:42] so we started doing research. when we arrived at the training center at an
[00:05:46] undisclosed location, Derek's family were in Moscow, largely
[00:05:50] unaware of where their father and husband was and what he
[00:05:54] was up to. however, Derek's wife, Diana, knew about his
[00:05:57] mission and made sure her husband got to see her and the
[00:06:01] kids. I hope that you are being safe and you are making
[00:06:05] the right choices and that you um, don't try to be
[00:06:08] hero, come back alive to your family. I would tell... I miss
[00:06:12] him, he better be safe for else, when he
[00:06:16] when he comes back I can make him
[00:06:18] pancakes. Naturally, we offered
[00:06:22] Derek the same opportunity and he sent his family a video
[00:06:26] greeting as well. Hey Diana, hey girls, um, I love you
[00:06:30] very much, I'm very, very happy to get to send you this video, let you see my
[00:06:33] face, see I'm doing well, probably see i've lost few
[00:06:37] pounds, um, I miss yall more than you can imagine, and
[00:06:41] I can't wait to see you. um, hopefully I get vacation some
[00:06:44] point and I get to come home and spend a couple of weeks with you, but man,
[00:06:48] you're on my mind 24/7, and uh, just know
[00:06:52] that what I'm doing is important to me and important for our family, and I
[00:06:56] will do whatever it takes to be safe and to come home to
[00:06:59] you.
[00:07:04] A brand new passport and a brand new life. Once, a
[00:07:08] proud resident of Arizona Derek Hoffman now carries
[00:07:11] Russians. citizenship, decision his family sees not
[00:07:15] as a risk, but as confirmation that they finally
[00:07:19] found where they belong. for the half months, the US they left
[00:07:23] behind felt unrecognizable, marked, as they
[00:07:27] say, by rising crime, social tension and
[00:07:30] cultural shifts that no longer aligned with their
[00:07:33] Christian values, so they packed up their lives,
[00:07:37] crossed an ocean and chose Russia as the place
[00:07:41] to start again. so basically the situation was getting
[00:07:45] worse and worse by the day, um, we were seeing lot of changes happen
[00:07:49] just in the economy, in the people, and realizing
[00:07:53] that the area was not as safe as it was when we
[00:07:57] at first started having kids, um, we have six in total, I
[00:08:01] have three adult children back home and we have our three daughters
[00:08:04] and um, when I started raising my boys, it
[00:08:08] was a completely different atmosphere, having the ability...
[00:08:12] to go to the grocery store and not having a guard standing right there in front the grocery
[00:08:16] store before you walk in because it's just theft
[00:08:20] and fighting and it was just not safe driving down
[00:08:23] the road you need a gun on your hip because people are willing to
[00:08:27] have the um anger and frustration take over
[00:08:31] what they actually would normally do and um the
[00:08:35] road rage is insane and we've actually heard and seen
[00:08:39] people get shot at so the safety factor.
[00:08:42] is a big thing um LGBQ plus is literally put in
[00:08:46] all the news and all the
[00:08:48] um things that are
[00:08:52] uh tv shows and all of um
[00:08:55] man ads for just random people's places
[00:08:59] like Target for instance has an ad where two men are kissing
[00:09:03] and I'm like it just is so in your face and shove down
[00:09:07] your throat and your kids can't go anywhere or do anything and avoid
[00:09:11] it and we wanted to have a place that had the same morals and values
[00:09:15] as we did, we are strong Christians and we want to have our kids
[00:09:19] raised with a good foundation, so unfortunately we had
[00:09:22] to leave America, we tried to move from Arizona to Texas
[00:09:26] to be able to get a stronger Christian value in our kids,
[00:09:30] um, only to realize that the morals and values are lot
[00:09:34] the same thing there, they have a parade in Dallas for the
[00:09:38] LGBQ, um, a pride parade where they're literally...
[00:09:42] on the streets and just out in public and it's
[00:09:46] totally fine and welcomed and and loved by many and it was
[00:09:50] just really shocking to us and we knew we had to leave America because
[00:09:54] it was declining more and more. the pivot point came
[00:09:58] from an unexpected place, ATV commercial. in
[00:10:02] it they saw vision of family and tradition that they
[00:10:05] felt no longer existed back home. we
[00:10:09] saw um a commercial with putin and
[00:10:13] he did a uh Christmas kind of a
[00:10:16] situation where he was Santa Claus and gave the children the actual
[00:10:20] mom and dad for Christmas and all the correct toys
[00:10:23] and um we took that as
[00:10:27] a big eye opener at that point, like, wait a minute, they have the same
[00:10:30] beliefs as we do, they also believe that family should be a mom and
[00:10:34] a dad and it shouldn't be shoved down the little boy's throats to want to
[00:10:38] wear a dress or want to play with dolls or any kind of
[00:10:42] craziness with that, and knowing that the safety factor
[00:10:45] was a lot better of rate here
[00:10:49] percentage-wise, we didn't really have any other
[00:10:53] options, russia was the way. go now living
[00:10:56] outside Moscow with their three young daughters, the family
[00:11:00] says Russia has been more welcoming than they imagined.
[00:11:04] So I'd say the biggest thing that we've experienced as a family
[00:11:07] is the big hearts and the
[00:11:11] welcoming from the Russian people. I've never in my entire
[00:11:14] life of living in America experienced such uh
[00:11:18] amazing wonderful people and it's crazy to
[00:11:21] say, but I feel like this is the home that I never had,
[00:11:25] this is the family that I never had, being able to come here and have
[00:11:29] people just invite us to come over and be like, hey, I made
[00:11:33] this entire crazy spread uh for
[00:11:36] um women's day, we were here on the fifth, women's day was on
[00:11:40] the eighth, that's a couple of days, you never even met my family, now you're
[00:11:44] inviting us over for cake and champagne and breakfast and meat and
[00:11:48] cheese and all these beautiful amenities, like are are are you
[00:11:52] okay from offering homemade meals to... them hours
[00:11:55] into moscow to file document, neighbors stepped in
[00:11:59] like family. It's the kind of support the Huffman say,
[00:12:03] they never experienced in the US. I'm like
[00:12:07] confused, like people don't do that, they're scared to
[00:12:10] have you come into their house, because maybe you're going to take something
[00:12:14] or maybe you're going to destroy something, and it's just the mentality is
[00:12:18] completely different, um, different neighbor offered to
[00:12:22] take us to the grocery store when we first moved here and... and gave us few
[00:12:26] rides to get there and brought us back and different neighbor the other day
[00:12:30] we were talking to um we go on walks lot just to have more
[00:12:33] conversation and to build our skills um in the
[00:12:37] language
[00:12:38] she offered to drive me all the way to Moscow
[00:12:41] which from here
[00:12:41] is two hours one way and be able to pick up
[00:12:45] documents from our lawyer because getting our girls into school
[00:12:49] and having specific um documents from the school
[00:12:53] records back in America having them transcribed and tr and
[00:12:56] switched over into Russian um and then of course notarized that they're
[00:13:00] off um notarized their
[00:13:03] authenticity okay that didn't come out right um
[00:13:07] but the notarized copies to be able to make sure that they're actually real and
[00:13:11] legit and that's two hours there nobody does that in
[00:13:15] America you'll be lucky to get somebody to help you get gas if you
[00:13:18] run out of gas and you know these people so I'd
[00:13:22] say for me it was the biggest eye opener. that these people
[00:13:26] are real and they are authentic and they have heart of gold,
[00:13:30] like they truly want to help, and not because they want to see something in
[00:13:34] return, which is the mentality of how we were raised in
[00:13:38] America. Russian doesn't come easily, still lessons at home and
[00:13:42] daily practice are slowly turning foreign sounds into
[00:13:45] something that feels a little more familiar. So being
[00:13:49] here and being immersed in it has made
[00:13:53] it easier as far as wanting to learn the language
[00:13:56] more, we're having more and more connections with people that are in the
[00:14:00] area and just learning lot better through conversations as
[00:14:04] well, it's a cool language, me and my sisters have always wanted our own little personal
[00:14:08] language and so coming here and then having to learn a
[00:14:12] language, i thought that was very funny, um it is very
[00:14:16] hard but it has been pretty fun to learn, the new life took
[00:14:19] another dramatic turn when Derek enlisted in the Russian
[00:14:23] Army. his wife describes as faith
[00:14:27] driven, so there was definitely a lot of um
[00:14:31] questions, there was a lot of discussion
[00:14:35] and a ton more prayer, like we wanted to make
[00:14:39] sure it wasn't just a, oh willy nilly like, oh we'll get citizenship
[00:14:43] so let's just
[00:14:44] do it, um,
[00:14:45] there was a lot of prayer and lot
[00:14:47] of just making sure like, okay, well what if this happens, well what if
[00:14:51] this happens, well what about this, well what about that, and then it was...
[00:14:55] like, okay, well, I mean it makes sense, you're why, I totally, I
[00:14:59] get it, and it's like, um, I just, I don't know how I feel about
[00:15:02] it, let's pray, and then coming to that conclusion and making
[00:15:06] sure that it was a god thing, that it was like, all right, Lord,
[00:15:10] like, if you want him to join, and that's the path you want
[00:15:14] for our family, like everything else we've ever done in our lives, make
[00:15:17] it just the clear path, make it black or white, and if it
[00:15:21] is the path that we're supposed to take, just make sure that we know
[00:15:25] that that's that's the path because we don't want to make
[00:15:29] a wrong choice and go down the wrong path and god forbid lose
[00:15:32] my husband or have something go wrong or
[00:15:36] um
[00:15:37] i don't... like it just not be the path that he has for
[00:15:40] us um and we've always talked about that when a window closes a door
[00:15:44] will open and the door is always a god thing for us
[00:15:48] um as long as it's something that is clear to
[00:15:51] us that he has his hand over it um it was easier
[00:15:55] for us to go okay well he's going to come back safe like this is god's plan
[00:15:59] like he's he's going to be protected and this is the path we're supposed
[00:16:03] to take and
[00:16:05] mean if you've read in the bible at all you know but multiple people have
[00:16:09] gone through their sets of hardship, they said, hey, this is what I'm supposed to do,
[00:16:13] this is what God wants me to do, ended up a lions then, ended up a
[00:16:16] furnace, ended up before a giant, did they die? they did
[00:16:20] not, like they were protected, they had God on their side and God saying,
[00:16:24] hey, this is the thing I want you to do, this is where I want you to
[00:16:27] fight, this is the path I have for you, and of course in doing the
[00:16:31] thing that God asked them to do, yes it was scary, yes it was dangerous
[00:16:35] and of course we are fearful, um of something
[00:16:39] happening, but of course knowing that it's a god path, it
[00:16:42] doesn't matter what you put in our way, like if this is the way he wanted us to
[00:16:46] do, this is the best best way for us to do it. she
[00:16:50] says serving was always a dream, but one he
[00:16:54] never fulfilled in the US. he had always thought that joining the
[00:16:58] military would be um a thing that he
[00:17:02] would want to do, in America he was never even able to
[00:17:05] because the um... his age
[00:17:09] or uh the ability to be fit enough or whatever the
[00:17:12] requirements were at that time, he never thought that he would be able to
[00:17:16] join. um, the the the
[00:17:20] military of America is the
[00:17:23] discipline and the you know actually making sure you're
[00:17:27] doing things as morals and values,
[00:17:30] and um, I am so grateful that he did not join there in the
[00:17:33] military, because I feel like it's a different,
[00:17:37] set of thought process as the morals and the values
[00:17:41] as it is here, you actually have a basis of morals and
[00:17:44] value and to be able to um be with
[00:17:48] like-minded people who actually want to see the country
[00:17:51] succeed and they know that we're fighting for a good cause,
[00:17:55] not just to fight or start a war or actually have
[00:17:58] issues, there's um the ability to
[00:18:02] stop the evil going on and to be able to make sure that the
[00:18:06] people here are safe. and that there is um just a
[00:18:10] connection since we've been here to to want to be part
[00:18:14] of society like we've never wanted to be part of society before
[00:18:17] where people are actually on the same page and they actually want
[00:18:21] to see you succeed and they want to
[00:18:24] be able to be part of that and the sharing is so
[00:18:28] amazing he was around a group of guys and he offered the
[00:18:32] one guy some um of his snacks and it was the
[00:18:35] snickers bar cuz he was was eating snickers bars and he they're just like these little
[00:18:39] mini snicker bars, it's not like this big old snicker bars and he offered him
[00:18:43] one and the guy took it and then he broke it in half to offer to someone else and i
[00:18:47] almost lost it, i was like you don't see that in america, you
[00:18:51] just don't, someone gets a cickers b the're like thanks and they eat it because
[00:18:55] they're so worried about making sure they get theirs, but here
[00:18:59] it's the opposite like they're like i want to share with somebody else
[00:19:03] so they feel the sames i'm feeling as the grateful and
[00:19:07] the... the enjoyment of whatever it is that they're getting to
[00:19:10] experience and just being around people like that was just
[00:19:14] it was no-brainer um seeing the signs saying that you and your family would
[00:19:18] get citizenship he was like it's done i could actually go in and be
[00:19:22] able to make sure that my family has citizenship i what more could
[00:19:26] i want? derek is now away with his unit and the
[00:19:29] family is counting down the days until he returns when
[00:19:33] we asked the girls about their father the room felt.
[00:19:44] Of course I miss him um having him here on regular basis
[00:19:47] making all the funny jokes that he usually makes and making things
[00:19:51] light-hearted and laughing about things and um him
[00:19:55] being able to lay the hammer
[00:19:57] and and be that rock and be able to make sure that you know things are going
[00:20:01] the way they're supposed to go and things are getting done and lists are
[00:20:05] made so that we make sure to stay on track. mean it
[00:20:08] is um it is hard not having that,
[00:20:12] not having your significant other to be able to help guide you and help
[00:20:16] be with you and um hold you at night to be able to say hey
[00:20:20] you know everything's going to be okay like it is difficult for
[00:20:24] sure and i 100% miss him i was going i knew this was
[00:20:28] going to happen soon cuz we prayed that he would make
[00:20:31] it and but when i heard he was going to move
[00:20:35] mean going to to the military. really i felt very
[00:20:39] sad and tried tried making every moment i can
[00:20:43] exciting and not bad ones. pretty sad
[00:20:46] because i really love him and i don't want him to go. he is hero,
[00:20:50] he's a hero to our family and he is hero to
[00:20:54] um pretty much every Russian person we've talked to,
[00:20:57] because there are so many people that are here in Russia that are true
[00:21:01] Russians that were born Russians that would not be
[00:21:04] courageous enough to stand up and say, "I'm going to fight, I'm going
[00:21:08] to fight for the country, I'm going to fight for what's right, I'm going to make
[00:21:12] sure that as a people succeed, because
[00:21:16] we already feel like we are Russian, so to be able to..."
[00:21:20] be on this side of things and to be able to fight for what we
[00:21:24] truly believe in is an amazing
[00:21:27] opportunity. i'd say i really miss him, i would say
[00:21:31] miss you and i wish you would heal, and i would say when
[00:21:35] he when he comes back i can make him pancakes. i would tell him that
[00:21:39] miss him. he better be safe or
[00:21:42] else. the family is now taking steps toward full
[00:21:45] citizenship. the children have joined a private school where each
[00:21:50] brings new lessons, faces and small
[00:21:53] discoveries. For the halfmans, Russia is more than a
[00:21:56] destination, it's the start of something new.
[00:22:00] Each day carries its own challenges and chances
[00:22:03] and together they're shaping life that
[00:22:07] already feels like home. Anastasia Valodina,
[00:22:11] RT from Moscow
[00:22:12] Region.
[00:22:42] Als Teil der Sanktionen gegen Russland gehen die westlichen Länder gegen
[00:22:46] russische Auslandssender vor.
[00:22:51] mais écoutez monsieur, c'est pas vous de décider de qui est journaliste ou pas dans ce pays on est en
[00:22:54] france quoi, c'est pas
[00:22:55] possible,
[00:23:00] we will ban in the European Union, the Kremlins
[00:23:03] media machine, the state owned Russia today
[00:23:10] roughly and all
[00:23:11] our banned video on agency, youtube,
[00:23:15] et merci à vous tous pour votre fidélité et votre
[00:23:17] soutien.
[00:23:34] Since World War II, the United States has
[00:23:37] fostered extremist, anti-Russian prejudices
[00:23:40] and hatreds among the Ukrainian diaspora in at
[00:23:44] least Canada, uh, the United States and countries in
[00:23:48] Eastern Europe.
[00:24:50] come for good, they are determined to be united with
[00:24:53] each other and with all peace loving nation, buse
[00:24:57] the ideal of lasting peace will become a
[00:25:00] reality. i think the cold war began with the death of
[00:25:04] rosevelt and churcher was a cold
[00:25:08] warrior.
[00:25:11] der hatte die idee, Russland mit
[00:25:15] Hilfe der der deutschen Kriegsgefangenen, das waren
[00:25:19] 100taus.
[00:25:29] across the continent,
[00:25:31] has descended operation unthinkable and pincer and
[00:25:35] broiler and bushwacker uh and drop
[00:25:38] shot, I mean all these were essentially plans to
[00:25:42] directly attack and destroy the Soviet Union. Why did the
[00:25:46] peace so many had longed for give way to new protracted war?
[00:25:51] When exactly did the post war world take faitful
[00:25:54] turn?
[00:26:06] NATO is preparing to rewrite the rules the game. For
[00:26:10] the first time since the cold war, the alliance is debating the
[00:26:14] right to a preemptive strike on Russia, without
[00:26:17] pretext or declaration of
[00:26:20] war.
[00:26:26] Concrete steps are being taken to lay the ground work
[00:26:30] for the next war. NATO involvement in the
[00:26:34] Ukrainian conflict is part of a hybrid
[00:26:37] war. The alliance is participating in the war against
[00:26:41] Russia under the guise of instructors. It's
[00:26:45] NATO countries who encourage the Ukrainian nazis to destroy
[00:26:49] everything that's linked to
[00:26:51] Russia.
[00:27:02] "It's all they ever wanted. If
[00:27:06] Vladimir Putin had not acted, you wouldn't be
[00:27:10] here right now, because there wouldn't be a here right now. I
[00:27:14] would be dead. Um, half the people in this town would be
[00:27:17] dead, most of Dumbas would be
[00:27:19] dead.
[00:27:34] I've spent years in conversations beyond
[00:27:37] borders, some were formal,
[00:27:41] some tense, some
[00:27:42] difficult, but all them
[00:27:46] mattered. They chartered
[00:27:50] India's path and how the world
[00:27:53] responded. Foreign policy is in
[00:27:56] theory, it is lived in arguments
[00:28:00] in decisions. and in their
[00:28:03] consequences. It's not an interview, it's a
[00:28:07] conversation. Let's
[00:28:10] talk.
[00:29:05] ban territories, let's go,
[00:29:09] crimeia here in Iran, we've traveled
[00:29:12] to Lugansk, and it's happening right here in China. It's
[00:29:16] actually quite a beautiful day here,
[00:29:20] ignored stories, I'm listening, thank you so much, thank
[00:29:24] you so much, so great to see you, really, God bless
[00:29:27] you, forbidden questions, I'm asking them, what's a
[00:29:31] free country? Are you worried, are you scared? we rusky, are you
[00:29:35] dictator? are you thinking about creating something? not planning to run
[00:29:39] for president. we will show you what they
[00:29:47] more people watch RC in the United States and see, I did
[00:29:51] not know that. that's the Sanchez effect. tens of
[00:29:55] millions are now watching, and we're just getting
[00:29:58] started.
[00:30:21] He is eager to seize upon any words, initiatives or ideas
[00:30:25] entering the public discourse, so he can push for some breathing room.
[00:30:29] Russia's foreign minister right there, dismissing Vladimir. cease
[00:30:33] fire calls as a ploy to regroup Ukraine's
[00:30:36] forces. That's after Keyev demanded the guns fall
[00:30:40] silent for 60 days to allow for
[00:30:42] elections. The more we help Ukraine, the sooner the war will
[00:30:46] be over. And Brussels adopts yet another package of anti-Russia
[00:30:50] sanctions for the EU hoping its 22nd round of
[00:30:54] restrictions will do what the previous 21 have failed to
[00:30:57] do. And that's the ultimate goal of bringing.