Author's notes Ksenia Kirillova
First, it is worthwhile to immediately make a reservation that America is beautiful for its diversity and possibilities, external beauty, entrepreneurial spirit, and the goodwill of most Americans, combined with a tactful ability not to violate your personal boundaries. And yet, many Russian-speaking emigrants, plunging into everyday and work vanity, ...
So 2020 is over. For someone who fully felt the bitterness of illness and loss, it was difficult and even tragic, for someone, perhaps not so scary and even happy in some way, but for everyone without ...
The upcoming US presidential election is truly unique in American history. They occur in the midst of a pandemic of a new, unexplored virus for which there is still no safe vaccine. Both sides have already made it clear, directly or indirectly, ...
The division of society in the United States on the eve of the presidential elections is deepening. Voting can only deepen this crisis: the headquarters of both candidates are already declaring that they will refuse to admit defeat. Pre-election passions are heating up in the USA. Even leading American political scientists do not undertake to predict the possible outcome of voting 3 ...
The mass protests in the United States caused by the death of African American George Floyd had real grounds, but both local radicals and Moscow will try to use them to their advantage. This opinion is shared by the majority of American security experts from among the former military ...
Probably none of the urgent questions for immigrants evokes such contradictory responses as nostalgia. In the Russian-speaking environment, one can find the most extreme points of view on this topic. On the one hand, many people living in Russia are sure that a Russian person is not ...
One of the most beloved American holidays is approaching - Christmas. The anticipation of this day is felt almost at every step: in garlands sparkling on the streets, private houses decorated with lights, homemade nativity scenes in the courtyards of churches and eternal Christmas trees that meet us in all public places - ...
A green card is not only the dream of those who would like to move to the USA, but also of many people already living in America. Tourist or work visa, university study or business visit - there can be many reasons for staying in the country, ...
At the end of the past year, the New York Police Department (NYPD) cited alarming statistics: recently, more officers have died from suicide than in the line of duty. In 2019, 10 police officers committed suicide in New York alone, eight of them ...
Immigration is stressful for almost all newcomers to a new country - no matter how prepared you are for such a move. Even temporary difficulties and setbacks are often perceived abroad much more difficult than at home. Unexpected troubles, lack of close friends and ...