Here's my observation on a few things. Disclaimer, I'm not there so my opinion is very uninformed.
I have 3 model friends that I stay in contact with since 2014. I know where they live, I have their real addresses, I talk to them all hours of the day and night, I have pictures from the kids birthday parties, videos of family get togethers, photos from bars when they go out. I talk to 2 of them at least 5 days a week. The one I talk to less often, I can call anytime. Last week she made a purchase for me because the seller needed a Colombian bank account. I sent the money back to her.
I don't visit Russians at all. That's my personal preference. Many of them are dishonest and I always think they are trying to hack my account. They always talk first, they always ask for personal information, I don't trust them. The women might be nice but they are almost always working for someone who is dictating what they can say and do.
I have friends who have met Russians and brought them here, actually 2 friends. In both cases, the women bailed as soon as they had an opportunity to get someone with more resources. Once they got here, they were golden as the saying goes.
I doubt any Russian women are working from home as independents. They don't have that type of internet freedom in Russia. You probably paid for another room at the studio.
Please forgive me if I am being too critical.
My friend who is still working on the Cam sites had (has) a friend like you. I hate the guy, no disrespect. For a year he would visit her room and take her private for 60 - 90 minutes at the end of her shift 3 or 4 days a week. They usually would chat the entire time. He would get a discount but would always get her to her 1500 token daily goal before he left. I told her the guy was screwing her up. The problem is, the other members stop tipping and stop going to her room. They know he is going to take her away so why bother? He has finally reduced his visits down to a couple times a month. Hopefully because of me. Now that he is gone, her goal is 5000 per day and she recently hit 15000 tokens in one day. I have been around for a year and I think I have 3 privates with her and those were to test new toys. I never take her away from the room for extended times. and I never talk in the chat because I don't want to be recognized as someone who is always there. One exception is if I am trying to get some activity in the room. I'll ask, how much to do xxx "how much to stand in one spot with your hands behind your head?" I'll send Lovense tips for 5 minutes and usually the room will help. I always PM what I am doing before I put it in the public chat.
My opinion, it sounds like all of your interaction is on the cam site, red flag. You should have much more information that's not cam related by now. I think there is no such thing as an independent Russian cam model. You are probably being played. Not intentionally by her, by her handlers.
I reread your post and I’m not sure how you arrived at the assumptions you did based on what I said in my post. To clarify, the stuff I was writing about (her giving me free password shows/studio problems) were in the early days of when I first started going to her room.
We were friendly early on because I was a good tipper but also interested in her beyond just the sexual nature of her show. After a few weeks, she asked me for my # and we started texted throughout the day, every day. After a couple weeks of that, we started talking on the phone a lot. Eventually, I made plans to go visit her but I had to wait on my passport and save money for the trip.
So we maintained our correspondence this way, texting and talking every day. She gave me her private social media accounts. I knew pretty much everything about her after a month. I knew what all of her family and friends looked like, their names, etc.
As for the other stuff regarding me taking her from her room… that’s something I was always cognizant of. I would say that to her and still do. But she tells me not to worry. She tells me that it’s not about money with us so she’ll give me a free private over anyone else. I feel bad because I know it’s her work, but she tells me not to feel bad. So I haven’t really been watching her shows. Because of that but also because it’s weird to watch someone in that context once you’ve met them and once you’ve had sex.
She didn’t work much when I was there. Maybe 3 or 4 times. And it was really weird being in the next room, listening to a show that I had heard so many times before. The first time, I watched her show, sitting in her living room with her cat. It was surreal. After that, I stopped watching. It was too strange.
Another complicated aspect about the money side of things is that she feels bad accepting help. After I gave her the money to go independent, she told me to stop tipping. I still tip, because like I said, I know that this is her job. But I also feel weird about giving the person I care about a lot, money to watch them jerk off. And I told her this. And she reiterated that I should stop tipping. She tells me to think about it the same as when we have phone sex. Obviously, I’m not paying her for that. So yeah, it’s definitely complicated because I know what is expected by the camming community in general. But we are doing what works for us.
To circle back though, I get what you’re saying about taking her from her room. But I’ve spent enough hours in public with her to know that 99% of those scrubs won’t tip. Some of them will watch her for hours and not give a single token. Then 99% of the 1% that tip are giving less than 20 tokens. So I have ZERO guilt about her and me going private for an hour. When she was in the studio, she had to work 8 hours a day and only got 30% of her tokens. And pay a penalty for any day that she didn’t work. Now she can set her own hours and gets to keep 100%. She’s her own boss.