When you live in the USA, these things seem quite ordinary to you, but they literally shock foreigners. Why do Americans bend their fingers back, why don't they pay taxes, why do they build toilets like this, and who really came up with the fries? Today I…
On August 18, Lithuania closed two border crossings with Belarus. The US Embassy in Belarus asks Americans to leave the country immediately. The Lithuanian government has closed two border crossings with Belarus at Tveretsius/Vidzy and Sumskas/Losha. Currently four border crossings are open: Medininkai/Kamenny Log, Lavorishkes/Kotlovka, Raigardas/Privalka and Šalchininkai/Benyakoni. Poland, Lithuania...
Daria Molchanova, a professor and historian who teaches Russian in the US, shared a touching and heartfelt TikTok video on her @realrussianclub page about the shock and admiration of how Americans treated her - just for wearing a prom...
When we get to a new country, we meet new people, and very often their habits, behavior and mentality are significantly different from ours. Blog author Sergei Kurylenko on Yandex.Zen told by what habits you can easily recognize an American even in a crowd of Russians. Further -…
A Mexican drug cartel that claims its members were behind the brazen kidnapping of four Americans has turned in five members and left an apology note. More details told the publication USA Today. Photos circulating on social media show five men with their hands tied on the sidewalk (four…
I want to tell you why sometimes Americans seem to me not just people with a different mentality and upbringing, but creatures from another planet. What is it - from another universe! 1. In their desire to be politically correct, Americans sometimes reach the point of absurdity. They are so concerned...
An American couple faces the death penalty in Uganda on charges of child trafficking and torturing one of their three adopted children. The New York Post writes about it. Nicholas Spencer and his wife Mackenzie Lee Matthias Spencer, both 32 years old, are in custody ...
The Daily Dot website has published a list of eleven stupid things that many Americans believe. The list includes misconceptions that at least 30% of US residents believe to be true. Conclusions were made on the basis of many surveys. 1. A third of Americans are absolutely sure that ...
The US has secured the release of WNBA star Britney Griner after she was in Russian custody for nearly 10 months. How many more Americans are languishing in Russian prisons, according to TheHill. U.S. officials worked hard to free Griner, who was detained in…
Often, even knowing a foreign language well, there are awkward pauses when communicating with a foreigner. They are mainly related to the fact that we do not know what to talk about with a person from another country. Especially for such cases, the author of the blog "Elena in America" ...