Author's notes Ksenia Kirillova

journalist ForumDaily


Through shelling and captivity: how Ukrainians evacuate war victims

Taking people out of the occupied territories, rescuing volunteers who have ended up in Russian prisons and looking for kidnapped Ukrainian children - all this is done by members of the Ukrainian public organization Help People. At the end of August, its founder Alexei Voronin, during his visit to the United States, met ...


Creating the future: how an immigrant from Armenia teaches robots to feel emotions

A well-known American entrepreneur, an Armenian of Chinese origin, David Yang has been fond of inventions since childhood, and he designed his first robot in the first grade of school - from an old parental tape recorder and plywood. Today, David is the founder of 13 companies, most of which are developing ...


In Harmony with Nature: How a Russian Designer Turned Furniture into Art

The life of Radik Vasiliev changed in 2013, when he already had, it seemed, quite a successful business - a small souvenir shop. In parallel, Radik rented sound equipment for events and was fond of photography. Starting to build his own photo studio, the young man suddenly noticed that his ...


From the Holocaust to the war: how a San Francisco educator created an online theater with the participation of children from Ukraine

Elena Bilyak created her first theater in her native Lviv in the late 80s. As a student of philology, she came to practice at the school where she studied herself. The reporting of that time required not only lessons, but also the so-called “test events”, in ...


How a boy who immigrated from Kherson predicted the war that began 20 years later

ForumDaily has written more than once about the difficulties that modern refugees face. Immigration prisons, uncertainty about the future, long years of waiting for the consideration of their case for Russians or temporary protected status without access to a green card for Ukrainians have become natural today ...


Fire in Hawaii through the eyes of an eyewitness: a Russian-speaking tourist ended up in Maui during a disaster

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...


The battle of the sexes in American style: what is the difference between the relationship between a man and a woman in the USA and in post-Soviet countries

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 ...


American irony: how an immigrant from Russia mixed up houses, almost became an alcoholic by court verdict and found new friends

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…


What got the most famous American scammers who deceived millionaires and the US government

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…


First video: children in California tried themselves as bloggers

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 ...

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