Yeah, youβre gonna need to do a little more research than that.
Mikhail Zaretsky is (or was, I canβt find a more recent english language source) the tiger trainer for theΒ Nikulin Circus (source). He currently posts videos on youtube about taking his tigers to boarding schools for kids to pet and climb on (source), and how his tigers and lions live together happily (source). Over on instagram, he likes to post videos of himself handling leashed tigers (source) and sometimes riding them (source). (He also tags all of his instagram posts with #bengaltiger, but thatβs confusing rather than problematic.)
Iβve been over this before: There is no way to safely, healthily keep an adult tiger full contact in a human residence. You either declaw, defang, or drug the tiger (which heβs been accused of doing), or the human is going to end up dead.
And if he is planning a reserve, he should know better than to transport tigers in an SUV. Or to keep them on leash. Or to let them interact with schoolkids. Or to let them paw at his face. Or to cohabilitate different species. Or to overfeed his tigersβwhen I first saw this video, I thought they were from the fur trade, thatβs how fat they are.
So yeah, keeping big cats in close contact with humans is still a really bad idea.
Edit: This site (source) repeats that heβs running a sanctuary, but I canβt tell if they have a second source outside of his social media, and they bring up that literally no one has vetted this. Big catΒ βsanctuariesβ are notoriously sketchy and prone to existing just because the owner wants to keep big cat pets. Which seems to be whatβs happening here.