As a Soviet military pilot emigrated to California and opened a Russian store

Visitors to the “Russian store” with the touching name “Babushka” in Walnut Creek, California (Bay Area) probably know Leonidas - the friendly man behind the counter. And very few people guess that Leonid Malkov at one time was a military pilot, served in Afghanistan and was awarded ...

How to survive in New York single immigrant

Yana Kolomenskaya, designer, employee of the event department of a hotel-restaurant in Midtown Manhattan, came to conquer New York in 2016. She left Krasnodar under the Career Professional Training professional internship program. “I want to say right away that New York is not America, it is a unique island (or peninsular) state -...

Why are our in the US always unhappy with everything

Yuri left the position of investment director in a Russian company to move to the United States. As part of a series of materials about compatriots who have moved abroad, "Lenta.ru" publishes a Russian story about life in the States. I left for the USA in one day, without any fees. I already…

A terrible disease that threatens 'ours' after moving to the USA

The author of the Telegram channel "Behind the Bugrom" shared his observation about the strangeness of some Russian-speaking immigrants in the United States. Someone was terribly indignant and offended, saying that only someone who has never lived in America can write this. And someone, looking the truth in the eye, agreed: this ...

Our emigration: How is life in Mongolia

Russian Viktor Sikirin is married to a citizen of Mongolia. They lived together in Russia, but due to family circumstances they had to move to Mongolia. Sikirin told Tinkoff Journal about how to live in Mongolia and why he doesn't really want to return ...

“It’s like I was in the USSR”: a Ukrainian woman spoke about her life in the USA

Almost a year ago, Nastya Boen, a Ukrainian from Lutsk, went to Anchorage (USA) for several months under the cultural exchange program. But a temporary trip unexpectedly changed the girl's whole life: overseas she found her love. Ukrainian woman in an interview with Segodnya.Lifestyle told about her ...

Our emigration: how China surprised the Russian woman

Anna Kuzina fell in love with the Chinese language as a child, and later won the world competition for its study and moved to Beijing. Anna told Afisha Daily about working as a model in China, face fengshui, a month without a shower after childbirth and the skills of local residents ...

Personal experience: how to find friends in exile

Suitcase-plane-America. The first weeks, and maybe months, you come to your senses and generally try to realize where you are, who you are and what is happening to you. The reasons why you are here are different for everyone. Someone dreamed for a long time and finally decided to turn it over ...

“There are no janitors or trash cans here”: the story of a Russian woman who moved to live in Japan

Ekaterina Moriya, who moved to Japan and became a housewife there, told Afisha Daily why the Japanese never confess their love, how to survive an earthquake, and why voluntarily deprive themselves of personal space. Moving to Japan Three years ago I worked in a small store ...

The history of the Russian IT specialist who moved to work in Thailand

ForumDaily continues to tell the stories of Russian-speaking emigrants from different countries. A new story is about Vasily Bondarenko, who has gotten the hang of working remotely and prefers the heat of Thailand to the coolness of Moscow. Read more stories of our emigrants here. Vasily Bondarenko is a web developer, entrepreneur and creator of the BeSocial.online service for managing Instagram accounts. Born and...

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