Before moving, I loved America, probably mentally and ideologically. Now, after a year of living in this wonderful country, I can rely on facts. 1. America helped me get back on my feet. In all senses. For the first months she helped me with food in the form of Food Stamp Benefits, ...
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...
As in Ukraine, communication between parents in an American school takes place with four main groups: the school administration, teachers, the parent committee or association, and other parents. But the American school manages to do without chats in Viber, public discussion of other children, fundraising for ...
Taisiya from Smolensk was 9 when she was adopted by a foster family in New Orleans. Now she is 26. Over the years, she has started her life anew three times. Taisia was born in the Russian city of Gagarin, Smolensk region. “My surname at the birth of Vinogradov, Taisia ...
Semyon Dukach, an entrepreneur and professional blackjack player, recently launched One Way Ventures. Together with Evelyn Buchatsky, with whom Semyon ran the Boston accelerator TechStars, he aims to invest in projects founded by immigrants, including Ukrainians. As a student, Dukach ...
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...
Ilya Levin is a naive intellectual from St. Petersburg (naive to such an extent that he did not even mow from the Soviet army, but served in it). After two years of refusal, he left for the States. There he made a good career in the State Department. He served in Russia, Eritrea, Turkmenistan, ...
Brighton Beach, the most famous and legendary Russian-speaking area in the USA, is my least favorite area of New York. Once again I try not to go there. The maximum is to go to the beach and stroll along the embankment in the evening. When I first arrived, I was “lucky” to live in Brighton (so...
During a couple of weeks in the United States, I realized that there is a special attitude towards electric vehicles. Judge for yourself: the best parking spots near large stores and shopping centers are intended specifically for them, parking spaces for electric vehicles are always on the ground floor, and large IT companies, among other things, charge personal electric vehicles for free ...
Since childhood, I was fond of everything related to computers, but the Unified State Exam in mathematics discouraged me from studying a technical specialty, and I went to political science at MGIMO, after which I began a successful career in public relations. At some point, I realized that I wanted to develop in another area, and in 2014 I decided to enter the United States to study Data Science. ...