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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 ...
The Oval Office of the White House houses a wooden table that has been used by 22 US presidents from 1880 to the present day. The story began at sea, with the search for the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; the first expeditions with this mission were sent ...
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...
All people on the planet encounter civil registry offices: from birth to death. And between these two starting points, many events occur that are subject to state registration: marriages, divorces, name changes, births of children - and so on in a circle, from generation to...
I don’t know how you feel about libraries, but I have strongly disliked them all my adult life. Semi-dark halls smelling of perennial dust, unkind employees with low wages. Even 5 university years could not change my attitude. And then we moved to New York. One day children ...
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