It seems to me that no one criticizes the “Russians” of New York more than I do. Perhaps I see in others what I want to get rid of myself. That’s why I criticize all “our people” mercilessly. And we avoid each other - we heard Russian speech, and were immediately dissatisfied...

My interlocutor, a pretty young blonde named Maria, came to New York from Moscow several years ago, when she was only 22 years old. In the capital of Russia, she moved, one might say, in a bohemian environment - she worked in the theater as a prop artist, studied...

They fear their husbands, deportation, and police. Some of them do not want their relatives back home to learn about their situation. They are also scared of being judged, like “She wanted to stay in the US so much that ...

May through November 2017 I was filming a documentary in five countries - the US, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan, and Russia - about Russian-speaking immigrants who went missing in the United States. I am not a former cop or detective; I ...

From May to November 2017, in five countries at once - the USA, Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Russia - I made a film about Russian-speaking immigrants who went missing in the USA. I'm not a former cop or detective, I'm a mother, a wife, and...

They are afraid of their husbands, deportation and the police. Some do not want their relatives back home to know about their situation. And they are also very afraid of condemnation, they say, everyone will say that she wanted to stay in the USA so much that she married a rapist, and now she’s crying!...

 Ilya Brodsky, an immigrant from Russia, became a student at a prestigious American college at the age of 13, and studied two specialties at once - mathematics and programming. Now the guy is 15 and he is preparing an application to transfer to Harvard or Stanford. At the same time, the boy practically does not...

The Internet is replete with stories about Russian-speaking girls marrying men from the United States. At the same time, it is very difficult to find a couple in which, on the contrary, a native of the post-Soviet space is married to an American. And it’s not clear whether American women rarely...

On November 7, New Yorkers elected a mayor. The voting results were not a surprise to anyone - the incumbent city leader, Democrat Bill de Blasio, won by a large margin. ForumDaily spent the evening of election day surrounded by his supporters, listening to what the re-elected mayor promised...

My ten-year-old twin daughters have an almost excellent school. This is a casual urban establishment in the southern part of Brooklyn. At the same time, its rating is 9 out of 10, on Saturdays the school holds additional interesting classes in mathematics and reading, and children are also taught there...