Author's notes Marina Sokolovskaya

journalist, blogger


Our man in a Mexican prison: “Anyone can come here - from children to a mistress”

Latvian citizen Dmitry Sukharov has been in a Mexican prison in Cancun for the eighth year. He received ten years for trying to smuggle eleven-plus kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to Europe. The drugs were discovered in June 2011 when Dmitry tried to ...


As a citizen of Kazakhstan, for seven years they have not been able to receive the status of political refugees in the USA

They don't want to advertise their story, so I changed their names. Svetlana and Oleg are husband and wife, their son is growing up, they work in government jobs and have been waiting for documents for many years. At the end of August they moved from...


How the September 11 terrorist attack in New York killed a pensioner in the Moscow region

Pensioner Viktor Barkov became the only Russian who died due to the September 11 tragedy in his apartment in the Kolomensky district. A terrorist attack in New York gave a man a heart attack - Viktor Kuzmich died while watching the news, the very second he saw...


Married for life convicts: the incredible story of a Ukrainian family in the United States

There will be no conclusions or morals at the end of this article. In it itself there will be no calls to take sides, and even less justification or condemnation. This is just a side view of the history of some relationships, or rather, the history of a young ...


As a native of the USSR received in the US 20 years in prison

Sergei received the maximum sentence for a car accident that he committed in Montana. I cannot yet reveal the last name of my hero - at his new place of work they do not know that he was convicted and, moreover, spent several years in prison.…


As an immigrant from the USSR, brought to light the Brooklyn bribe judge and sued her children back

Some time ago, my article about violence in families was published on the ForumDaily website when the husband is a US citizen and the wife is from the former USSR. I decided to write it because I often received requests for help from women who suffered...


Ignat's third funeral: the life and death of an illegal from Uzbekistan in New York

Just a few months ago, the body of Ignat Smolsky, a native of the city of Chirchik, Tashkent region, who died in New York in September 2010, was delivered to the Brooklyn forensic department. In the spring of 2018, his body was exhumed, and until Ignat's mother ...


We're loosing it: Why immigrants' children need Russian language

Let me make a reservation: “Russian language” is conditional for the purpose of this article. It might be replaced with Ukrainian, Armenian, Georgian, etc. Dear parents, I am speaking of your mother tongue which remained your natural language in immigration ...


How to live illegally in Manhattan and travel around the country: the experience of Russians

Nikita S. came to the United States from Moscow almost two years ago - in May 2016. A year ago, his tourist visa expired, which did not stop him from renting an apartment in a prestigious area of ​​Manhattan, traveling around the country and, moreover, living...


An immigrant from Kazakhstan gave birth in the United States at home and now cannot receive documents for a child

A native of Aktau (Kazakhstan) living in the USA did not have time to get to the hospital and gave birth at home. Firefighters and paramedics attended the birth. Everything went great - mother and daughter feel great. But for almost a month now, young parents have not been able to get...

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