Russian-speaking gays and lesbians start life from scratch in New York
More and more Russians are asking for political asylum in the United States. According to Radio Liberty, in 2015 there were 1454 such applications, which is half as many as last year and twice as many as in 2012. And this is an absolute record in twenty seconds ...
To remember: who we lost in 2015 year
In 2015, we said goodbye to great actors, directors, writers, politicians and musicians. Soon we will celebrate the new year 2016. The Forum remembers those who left us this year. Actors and directors Rimma Markova, People's Artist of Russia, died on 15...
Where and how to celebrate Christmas and New Year celebrities
There is nothing left until Catholic Christmas - it will be celebrated from December 24 to 25. Christmas is one of the most popular holidays in Europe, the USA and Canada. But for people from the post-Soviet space, their favorite holiday is still New...
Director Zhora Kryzhovnikov about the New York premiere of “The Best Day”
On December 18, the world premiere of the New Year's comedy “The Best Day” by Russian film director Zhora Kryzhovnikov took place in New York. It was he who created truly popular hits - the films “Bitter!” and “Bitter! -2”. At the Brooklyn Master Theater, where the premiere took place, there were almost no empty seats -...
Time: gait betrays Putin's head
Vladimir Putin and other top Russian government officials have been “diagnosed with the gait of a Wild West gunslinger,” The Times writes, citing a scientific article. “It's included in the British Medical Journal's Christmas issue, which highlights research on 'weird and funny topics' that...
The second generation of immigrants from the USSR almost does not read in Russian
American sociologist Sam Kliger, who studies the Russian-speaking community in the United States, in an interview with Forum says that immigrants who came to America at a relatively young age (the so-called “generation and a half”) practically do not read or write in Russian. The situation with the “second generation” is even more complicated...
Sociologist about how Russian-speakers are changing in America
Sociologist Sam Kliger has been observing, studying and describing the Russian-speaking community in America for three decades. In Soviet times, he worked in Moscow at the Institute of Sociology of the Academy of Sciences, in 1990, after ten years of refusal to leave, he fled to the United States and came ...
Our people are about working in top companies in Silicon Valley
Russian-speaking specialists have taken strong positions in Silicon Valley. In Google, Apple, Facebook and hundreds of smaller companies, Russian is spoken. "Forum" collected five stories about how our people got to work in the most famous companies in Silicon Valley, what ...
Artist Mikhail Turovsky about the success 20 has been waiting for in New York
Mikhail Turovsky lives with his wife in the Russian-speaking area of Brooklyn. His apartment looks more like a museum or library. Here are the owner’s books and the most precious thing for any artist - his paintings. “There are hands, there are eyes, the heart is beating. Even now I every...
Ukrainian startup entered the world top twenty
Kievites Andrey Seleznev and Marina Kuzmenko made a mobile application with smart recommendations and ratings for plant care. They got the idea to use a phone camera to measure the leaf area of a plant as a result of finding a solution to estimate the area of 2500 poplar leaves. ...