The monument to the 26th US President Theodore Roosevelt has become the latest “victim” of the movement to remove monuments that symbolize colonial expansion and racial discrimination. The Museum of Natural History in New York has decided to demolish a bronze sculpture depicting Roosevelt on a horse, and next to him African and indigenous people on foot...

“My friend lives in Oklahoma, she is an ultrasound technician, and together with her husband she receives $8800 a month in unemployment benefits, and now it is more profitable for them not to work,” my friend Valeria, who lives in New York state, told me. She's a dentist and...

Hygiene and compliance with quarantine rules are among the reasons why the densely populated countries of East Asia were able to quickly contain the rate of spread of the COVID-19 disease. My friend Xiao is from Beijing. She came to study in the USA 8 years ago, speaks almost without an accent and ...

This year in Washington for the New Year, heavy rain and +11 are predicted. Needless to say, this does not carry a special feeling of the approaching holiday. There is no fairytale atmosphere, no expectation that some small miracle is about to happen. And where is the holiday? Nights with ...

“He fixed his piercing gaze on me. I looked back defiantly." These lines could be the beginning of a tearful novel, but we are talking about a press briefing by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the US State Department. Was he really looking at me...

Presidential debates in the United States are a well-established tradition, a clear pattern of conversation and, most importantly, respect between the candidates for each other. Here are some facts about how this part of political culture was formed. 1. Not mandatory, but desirable. No law in the United States...

Insolence in relation to clients, intrusive marketing, high prices and surcharges for additional services - these, in my personal experience, are the common features of most chain sports establishments in Kyiv. Customers receive a barrage of SMS advertisements, even if they have just purchased a subscription, for a lost plastic...

“Sasha, don’t jump off the swing,” is heard at a playground in the suburbs of Miami. This place is called “Little Moscow”, that is, “Little Moscow”. You hear Russian here more often than English. During the half-day spent in this park on the Atlantic coast, a Ukrainian-speaking mother...

Even taking into account the cost of a car, a family can save up to 60% on their vacation by using a trailer. “When I retire, I’ll buy myself a trailer with all the amenities and live on the beach,” my 30-something-year-old shared his “American dream.”

At school we learned that Ukrainian emigrants are usually divided into four waves, Maria Prus writes in a blog for the Voice of America. The first is “labor emigrants” (mid-19th century - beginning of the First World War), mostly young, single men, poor and illiterate, and...