Author's notes Ksenia Kirillova
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 ...
In the USA, the tour of the play "Singing Mills" is coming to an end, in which the main role was played by Dimitri Koan (the actor himself prefers to introduce himself as Dima). He came to America only in 2015 as a political refugee. During this time, Dima has already starred in episodes ...
On June 5, one of the most famous Soviet spies in the United States, former FBI special agent Robert Hanssen, died at the age of 79 in a federal prison in Florence, Colorado. For more than 20 years, Hanssen managed to quietly cooperate first with the Soviet, and then with ...
The other day, David Whelan, the brother of the American Paul Whelan, imprisoned in Russia and accused of espionage, reported new dramatic details of Paul’s stay in the Russian penal colony IK-17. According to him, on May 26, the deputy head of the colony and the head of security broke into...
Andrei Denisenko was born in the small Belarusian village of Dubovka, and began his professional career while studying at the university, earning money in all possible ways: as a loader and builder, and even installing fences in cemeteries. Now Andrey is the founder and owner of a successful construction company,…
You can hear different, sometimes contradictory reviews about American medicine. On the one hand, many note its high quality, but on the other, the complexity and cumbersomeness of the medical system in the United States can turn even a relatively simple problem into a real tragedy. This is not...