Author's notes Ksenia Kirillova
Sergei Bystrov and his family flew to Hawaii from California to rest just a couple of days before the devastating fire, as a result of which the city of Lahaina on the island of Maui burned out almost completely. He witnessed these terrible events. Deadly wildfires in Hawaii have claimed...
Many immigrants from the post-Soviet space, starting relationships in America, by inertia act in the same way as they are used to in their homeland. This can often lead in a new country not only to love disappointments, but also to problems with the law. We list only the most prominent ...
This story may seem incredible to the average American, but it looks quite ordinary for an immigrant from the post-Soviet space, who has been familiar with Eldar Ryazanov's cult film The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath since childhood. Viktor Kislitsyn (not his real name) moved to the US in the 1990s…
Exactly 95 years ago, in July 1928, the last chapters of the newly written novel The Twelve Chairs were published in the literary magazine Thirty Days, which can be considered the birth of Ostap Bender, a favorite of several generations of readers. Some of the…
Nine-year-old Alice has a serious task ahead of her: to suddenly jump out of an ambush imitating a snake and thereby scare her friends, who jumped on the bench in horror. True, the girl herself assures: she is not a dangerous reptile at all, but only a harmless snake, and explains in detail how snakes differ ...
Summer is a traditional time for holidays, when many immigrants from post-Soviet countries living in the United States set off to travel around Europe. Against the backdrop of Spain, Italy or France, beloved by tourists, Hungary traditionally turns out to be deprived of the attention of vacationers. At the same time in this country...
A full-scale war in Ukraine has been going on for almost a year and a half. At the same time, Russian “successes” on the battlefield are extremely far from what can even be called a victory with a stretch. Obviously, realizing this, Russian officials, propagandists and ideologists are offering more and more ...
On July 1, the tour of the famous actor Anatoly Bely with the solo performance "I'm Here" ended in the USA. The hero of the performance is a touching, confused, direct to the point of comicality "lost man" - a traveler with two backpacks, going nowhere. This is a man laughing through tears, frantically trying to build ...
On June 29, at Stanford University (California), a meeting was held with one of the participants in the defense of Mariupol and Azovstal, Azov fighter Arseniy Fedosyuk, his wife Yulia, as well as the wife of Azov commander Denis Prokopenko, Ekaterina Prokopenko. Now women head the Association of Families of Azovstal Defenders...
A Russian asylum seeker returned home while her husband remained in the United States, where he is seeking asylum and the right to communicate with his own son. The story of Denis and Natalya (names have been changed) began quite prosaically for our time. A married couple from Kaluga ...