Ability to buy unique local content from other iTunes stores

Hi,
I recently realized that iTunes store that looked modern and incredible only few years ago now does not serve my needs.
Let me explain in details and may be this information can help Apple to improve their store and meet my needs.
I am 44 years old.
I was born in Moscow Russia back in 1969.  My childhood and my youth years were in Soviet Union and in Russia.
After graduating from university my first job was in Singapore. I lived in Singapore with my family for 12 years. My two daughters were born there.
Right now my family and I are residents of Canada.
As you can see,  there are few significant portions of our lives bonded to different cultures.
I believe we are not unique. The World is small. People goes to school in one country, goes to university in another, works and getting married in third and settles down and retires in fourth…
iTunes store provides great possibility for us to download music, songs, movies… but only from the iTunes store of the country we live.
Apple dictates what we can or can not listen and watch using iTunes by its unfair policy:
REQUIREMENTS FOR USE OF THE ITUNES SERVICE
*The iTunes Service is available to you only in Canada, its territories, and possessions. You agree not to use or attempt to use the iTunes Service from outside these locations. Apple may use technologies to verify your compliance.*
I could understand why Apple does this. Because the same HD movies can be sold for $20 in one country and for $10 in another and Apple does not want people to switch stores and get a better deal.
But I am talking about completely different issue here.
Each country produces exclusive media content which is purely local.
This could be a localized version of Disney cartoon or a song in local language.
What I really want is to be able to download any exclusive local content from any iTunes store around the World.
The price can be different and it could be related to where I live. That's fair.
What is not fair is for Apple to tell me that I can not download russian movies and russian songs from a russian iTunes store because I am no longer live in Russia.
Here is what Apple  can do to resolve this issue:
1. Provide different audio language sound tracks for movies.
If I am buying a Disney movie from Canadian iTunes store I would like to be able to buy it in English, French and Russian. Because my family members have different preferred language. You can charge for additional sound track a small amount, say $1.99
I does not cost anything and no content needs to be produced. It's just the way you package it.
2. Allow to mark iTunes content as an Exclusive local content. For instance a russian folk song or a russian documentary.
Make a special section "Russian exclusive content"  or "Singapore exclusive content" etc
Allow anyone in any country to buy this content.
All this makes perfect economical sense and also fair to your customers.
Any feedback or suggestions are appreciated.
I hope this information is useful to improve iTunes store in future.
Alex Goncharov
<Email Edited by Host>

Most of the people on these forums, including myself, are fellow users - you're not talking to iTunes Support here. I've asked the hosts to remove your email address from your post.
It's not Apple's choice where to sell an item, the content providers control that. All content is licensed to Apple to sell by the content providers on a country-by-country basis, so each country has to have its own store - if the record company, film studio etc was happy for the item to be in your country's store then they will grant Apple a license to have it there. Similarly it's up to the film studio to put extra audio tracks and/or subtitles on their films.
If there is a particular film etc that you would like to be added to your country's store then you try requesting that it be added, but utlimately it's the content provider's choice : http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunes.html

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