Author's notes Ksenia Kirillova

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A holiday during the war: how to give yourself joy and why it is important

Life under bombs, in the cold and with blackouts or forced flight; separation from loved ones or even their death; fatigue and uncertainty about the future... The war in Ukraine has led to the fact that hundreds of thousands of people, it seems, are simply physically incapable...


How an immigrant from Ukraine conquered Fashion Week and prepared outfits for the Oscar ceremony

Maria Milovidova came to the United States as a 13-year-old teenager back in the mid-1990s. She drew from the age of two and did not change her vocation even in America. Maria graduated from San Jose State University with a bachelor's degree in arts and textile design…


Vouching for a refugee: what are the responsibilities and risks of those who are ready to vouch for new immigrants

Against the backdrop of the ongoing war with Ukraine and the mobilization announced in Russia at the end of September, the flow of political refugees from Russia and Belarus to the United States has increased significantly. Many of them, unable to obtain an American visa, apply for asylum in the southern ...


Paul Whelan and PMC 'Wagner': how recruiters for the war in Ukraine hide from foreigners imprisoned in the Russian Federation

The other day, the press reported that the American Paul Whelan, who is serving a sentence in a Russian colony on charges of espionage, ended up in a prison hospital. According to the American media, his brother David, Paul is alive, but his state of health is unknown. Sunday David...


Business and artificial intelligence: how an entrepreneur from Russia invented a unique risk assessment system

Risk assessment in car insurance, analysis of financial markets, working with data... in these and similar areas, a person increasingly has a powerful competitor - artificial intelligence. Neural networks not only perform a number of tasks no worse than humans, but also constantly ...


'Kill to become yourself': what inspires some Russians to support the war with Ukraine

The protracted nature of the war, the rise in prices, the mobilization that affected many Russian families, the defeat in the Kharkiv region and the withdrawal from Kherson ... It would seem that all these factors should help even the Russians who supported the war to slow down their militaristic ardor and begin to doubt that …


Will a Republican victory in the midterm elections affect US support for Ukraine?

As many analysts predicted, the midterm elections to the US Congress ended with a partial victory for the Republicans. The "Red" party managed to get a majority of seats in the House of Representatives, but it seems that it did not work out to take the leadership in the upper house of the American parliament - in the Senate. AT…


On the collective guilt in emigration: how Russians do not fall into self-flagellation against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine

In addition to the large number of Ukrainian refugees, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine triggered a mass exodus of Russians. No one can name the exact numbers of those who left - according to various sources, they vary from several hundred thousand to millions. The announcement of mobilization at the end of September led to…


Ukrainian bard and the first rescuer in the USSR - about Russian-Ukrainian apartment dwellers during the war, creativity, enemies and friends

Oleg Ryzhenko is a well-known performer of the author's song in Ukraine and abroad, one of the founders of popular bard festivals. In addition, Oleg is the creator of the first Ukrainian Operational and Rescue Service - the forerunner of the former Ministry of Emergency Situations (now the State Emergency Service of Ukraine ...


'We will soon see new military defeats of the Kremlin': Russian politician speaks at Stanford

The Russian army is in a deplorable state, businesses are suffering from mobilization and sanctions, and the Russians, contrary to the data of pro-government sociologists, are not eager to die for Putin. This was announced on October 24 at a meeting at Stanford University by a Russian opposition politician and economist, a former deputy ...

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