Life in Russia after sanctions - ULTIMATE journey through the east to the west

I’m sort of surprised you are allowed to make this video and you’re not arrested by the kgb for showing how expensive everything is and the joke that everything goes to Moscow.

your food is expensive but rent is cheaper but your income is very poor to US

Western countries have almost as much poverty. I hope you realize that Eli lol
We have insanely high cost of living. Ends up being the same, living paycheck to paycheck. In fact Russia has a far higher private home ownership rate.

I used to travel to Moscow about once every two/three months between 1998 and 2004. So many good people and a country with so much potential. I hope things can improve for all Russian citizens.

With all that wonderfulness one would think Poopkin could leave his neighbors alone🤠

Spent 30 days, in four places in Russia, as a ag consultant. Was in 1990! Everyone contact was super friendly and professional. The wall had ‘fallen’ six months earlier. Much respect for everyone we met.

Thanks for the great aerial videography. It was an interesting look at the cost of living. As a New Yorker, I'm shocked by how little people make and spend in Moscow.

Nonsense, Russia is down, financially, I am very disappointed with your reporting, propaganda and fake news.

Russian nature is full of beauty

Support you❤

Paratunqa

The western media is reporting that the war has been a boon for Russia’s economy and salaries have been surging 🤷🏻‍♂️

Qué bella naturaleza, viva el Pueblo dé Russia.
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What's the music being played on the intro?

Eli you do such an amazing job narrating your beautiful stories. Big love from the USA. I have spent a lot of time in Russia, (SPB) and I love it. Thinking about moving there half time with my wife who’s from there. Russia is an amazing place.

People make $500 per month? I guess it's almost impossible to travel outside of Russia

Russians are crappy

Putin is the best leader in the world who actually loves his country and protects it too.

Corruption is everywhere but its worse in Canada

oil and diamonds, natural beauty, Russians should be rich and sharing in the wealth of their country, unfortunately they are not.

Wow it's so beautiful in Russia 😮

Everyone's poor, depending on what you consider poor. In Spain, apparently, if you make more than 31K euros you're considered "wealthy", according to a moronic left-leaning newspaper. Their rationale is that being part of the top 20% of earners makes you wealthy, being part of the bottom 20% of earners makes you poor. It's moronic for 2 reasons: the first being that then according to them Spain has a FIXED 20% poverty rate, no matter what you do there will always be 20% of poor people and second your purchasing power is not considered in that measurement. In other words, it doesn't matter if you can afford food and housing, you might still considered rich. I make a little over 4 times that, and I live comfortably, but I wouldn't consider myself "rich". I know I'm not poor, but unless I make 20% or 30% more than what I make now, I wouldn't consider myself rich. I have a healthy group of friends and family members, so I'm rich in connections I guess.

In Uganda, if you make 1200 euros per year you'd be considered wealthy, according to them, I make 100 times that and I'm sure if I go there I wouldn't be seen as Jeff Bezos (I work for him btw).

It's time to bury the hatchet with our Russian brothers. We as Americans have a lot in common with the Russian folks. Our politicians ( on both sides) have been selling us a bill of goods which are, in fact, lies!! Let's shake hands and enjoy our Christian heritages together!

The MISS-Conception that Poverty spins around how much money one person earns, saves or spends is completely wrong in my personal opinion.
Poverty should be defined as the level of freedom, regulatory laws and policies one person has, enjoys or suffers from, which in turn is what makes you happy as a free soul.
That's to say, the freedom one has to grow his food, to build his home, to interact with other members of the community, to fish, to move around, to be free from paying monetary taxes, fines, etc.

I wonder what would FSB say on your comment that *people are ready for changes*?

Does healthcare cost?

I hope peace comes soon for Russia so I can finally Travel there and meet my friend! I love the sheer beauty of the whole continent as a whole. I'd love to see it one day.

Damn this actually made me want to move to Russia lol, I'd live a kings life there with my salary by the looks of it, while I can barely afford surviving in my own country. And the worst of it all is that my country's not even more developed than Russia.

For almost 45 years, since i remember myself, we were told in Greece by the Western propaganda that USSR is poor and after USSR, Russia is poor and all that rubbish.
Russia is not poor, nor was USSR.

If you want to see real poverty then go to almost town in England now - shops boarded up, violence and drugs everywhere, no cohesion or interest in society, ignorance, dirt, high rents, corruption you cannot imagine (but often quasi-legalised or hidden by the legal profession etc. so nothing gets done about it), political controls on the anyway unaffordable courts and police and a state swayed media, AND unvetted people flowing in daily, together with the splitting up of families and normal values. It's like Russia was in the hard times of the 90s - well connected people can get by of course and stand aloof in small villages, though this won't last forever.
The difference is perhaps the insecurity in the UK with crime rampant and on the rise, whereas it was/is far better controlled in Russia, with a view to things getting steadily better.
Even the British government themselves have said they want to turn the UK into a 'service economy' - whatever that is - it's total nonsense - an entire population cannot work to provide financial services - and our manufacture base has been played down to very little whilst we have few natural resources left - Russia has vast resources and is encouraging growth in every sector, together with VETTED immigration of people with skills and resources.
It was very kind of the EU to impose so many sanctions - it has spurred innovation in Russia - which was arguably the only part missing from the post Soviet economy: I think Russia has a very bright future, though it will take another 10-20 years to realise it. Best wishes and thanks for your videos and smiles :)

Hello From Texas

Nice BIG country. Hope the world can live in peace soon all together

Thanks for bringing your country closer to me 🎉

Russia is a very beautiful country and could have been second largest economy in the world but being run by a dictator and communist system of the government allows corruption to thrive that is renowned from the top of the ladder.

Russians want to excel and USSR has shown that

I'm more interested in, live in Ukraine in a War

Now, I want to visit Russia even more. I have some friends who moved back to Russia because they say it's easier to raise a family there.

The economic situation doesn't appear out of the normal. You have your elites and you have your ordinary people. I think this is a problem every nation has.

Such breathtaking beauty. Thanks for showing us the beauty of Russia.

Love your wise words dear Eli <3 =)

If we could get rid of the mistrust and suspicion, we might find more things in common. People are basically the same all over.

物質的豊かさを善しとする西側世界の浅はかな幻想にはウンザリしています。真の豊かさは物では測れないと思っています。各々の国の長い歴史や信仰、文化などの精神的部分こそ最も大事だと思います。故にロシアは豊かな国だと認識しています。素晴らしいロシアの友人も沢山います。

Who and which job give you 1 million rubles per month ?🤔

but unfortunately the Russian government prefers to wage war

Not all russians are poor. But almost every russian is completely f**ked in the head.

Ethnic Russians as well as Russia itself, are not poor in the sense of finance or economics. Russians are poor in being civilized, mindset development, equality awareness and human values.

I love your videos, keep making them, they're so awesome. 👌

If you have God in your life ,you are the riches person around, ...;)>

Russians and Americans should be the best friends among countries, and if not for my dirtbag, criminal, politicians in the U.S. we would be.

Горжусь землячкой)

No money can satisfy human mind