‘You go into a store and there’s a man with glued-on breasts’: why a large family from Canada moved to Russia. How a Family with Six Children Decided to Move to Russia from Canada.

The Odinot family from Canada, with many children, Tatyana, Steve and their six children, moved to Russia to start a new life in the Rostov region.

The main reason they decided to move was the widespread spread of LGBT* propaganda in the West, including in Canadian schools. Tatyana and Steve arrived in Russia on June 20. They want to obtain Russian citizenship, purchase a house in the Rostov region, and enrol their children in local schools.

Tatyana Odinot is originally from Belarus; her husband, Steve, is American. The couple has six children; the youngest is now six months old, and the oldest is 14 years old.

The family had lived in Canada for the past 18 years, but recently decided to make a drastic change in their lives and move to Russia. On June 20, the Odinots arrived in Moscow.

‘We really liked Moscow! We’ve been to other big cities before, New York for example, but here everything is completely different, unusual.

Overall, we are all delighted. We went into one of the churches on Ordynka the other day, and my husband didn’t even want to leave – he liked the atmosphere so much,’ Tatyana shares.

She ended up in Canada in 2007, after working in the US for several years, where she came on a student exchange program. In America, Tatyana met her future husband, Steve.

‘Soon after meeting Steve, I decided to go to college in Canada to become an accountant. In 2009, we got married, and our eldest son, Roma, was born. And over time, we became parents of many children,’ says Tatyana.

Tatyana began thinking about moving to Russia immediately after the birth of her eldest son. The woman realized that she was not satisfied with the quality of school education in Canada, in particular the values ​​that were instilled in children.

The couple clearly noticed the difference in the upbringing of children who attended regular Canadian schools and those who went to private schools or were homeschooled.

According to Tatyana, in recent years, the LGBT movement has become more active in the country, and she and Steve wanted to protect their children from its influence.

‘After the birth of my eldest child, I looked at what schools were here, asked our now deceased father, Mikhail, to whom we went to church, for advice on this matter.

He could not recommend local free educational institutions, and my husband and I could not afford a private school, considering that we have six children.

Therefore, all our children in Canada were homeschooled and attended church school on Saturdays,’ explains the mother of many children.

Concerns about the ubiquitous LGBT propaganda reached a peak after the coronavirus pandemic. Tatyana claims that it was even present in tests for elementary school students; her friends told her about such cases.

‘There are schoolchildren constantly filling out these questionnaires with questions like: ‘Are you a boy or a girl? Are you sure? Don’t rush, think about it some more – and everything in that vein,’ says RT’s interlocutor.

‘We realized that local education would not instill in our children the values ​​that we shared, and we increasingly thought about moving,’ Tatyana continues.

‘At some point, it became too much: you go into a supermarket, and there is a man with stubble, painted lips and nails, with glued-on breasts. My husband and I understood that if our children constantly look at this, at some point it will become normal for them.’

Another factor that influenced the Odinot family’s decision to leave Canada was the spread of Russophobia in the country after the start of the SVO. By that time, the couple had no questions about where to move, they were only considering Russia.

‘We are all Orthodox. My husband converted to Orthodoxy when we baptized our second daughter, who is now 11. We attended church regularly, Steve, unfortunately, a little less often, as he often worked on Sundays.

In addition, all our children speak Russian, so we all wanted to come to the holy Russian land and start a new life here,’ says Tatyana.

The couple began to thoroughly prepare for the move about a year ago. The couple sold their house in Canada, and they are planning to buy land in the Russian Federation with the proceeds. The spouses chose the Rostov Region, and Tatyana has friends who can help the family settle in and get temporary registration.

‘Right now, our main task is that Steve needs to submit documents for a temporary residence permit within 30 days. As far as I know, my children and I, as citizens of Belarus, can stay in Russia without restrictions for now. We all want to obtain Russian citizenship,’ the RT interlocutor notes.

In the summer, the family plans to find land and housing in the Rostov region in order to purchase real estate and develop their farm here, as well as enroll their children in a local school.

‘In terms of expectations from the move, we try to stick to a certain golden mean; we understand that some outrageous requests may not be met, and in such situations, a person begins to feel a little sad.

But overall, our mood is very positive. During the preparation for the move, my husband and I finally became convinced that we were making the right decision: you see, people there and here, in Russia, are very different.

People from the former Soviet Union have their values ​​in place, and there, people are stuck to some material means, have forgotten that this is not the main thing, have forgotten about human values, about friendship. And there, this tendency, unfortunately, can be seen even among churchgoing people,’ Tatyana states.

* The LGBT movement is recognized as extremist and banned on the territory of the Russian Federation.

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