Traffic jams, expensive housing and the homeless: how Amazon changed Seattle

In September 2017, a group of Michigan entrepreneurs and officials traveled to Seattle, Washington to find out how much Amazon has transformed the city. The trip took place within the framework of a competition announced by the company. The main prize is the second Amazon headquarters for 50 thousand people. Detroit…

Beloruska told about life in the USA after winning a green card

Maria was born and lived in Gomel, where she graduated from the university with a specialization in history and English. In 2013, she won a green card and left for the United States with her family. For 5 years now, Maria has been living in Seattle, known all over the world thanks to the giants of the industry - Amazon, Boeing and Microsoft, which are located here. The story about moving to the "city of rains" was written by the edition ...

How to move together to a home in the United States: the experience of the inhabitants of Seattle

A small group of people gathered on the shores of a lake in a Seattle suburb to watch their neighbor move. The strangeness of the move is that the 35-year-old is moving with his 2500-square-foot home, The California reports ...

For Russians, what does the closure of a Seattle consulate mean?

Sasha Senderovich was not going to collect his Russian passport on Monday. He had been ready for several months, but the guy kept forgetting to pick him up, writes The Seattle Time. Then he heard that the Trump administration was closing the Russian consulate in Seattle until ...

In the US National Park, an Israeli fell off a cliff and died in front of his family

Uri Natanzon is the fifth tourist to have died in the area since the beginning of the year. 33-year-old Israeli Uri Natanzon, who traveled through the Wallace Falls park near Seattle, in the northwestern American state of Washington, fell off a cliff and died in front of ...

Seattle will host a sports festival for the Russian community

The Desna Cup, a sports and entertainment festival for the whole family, will take place in the Seattle suburbs from August 18 to 20. Its organizers, members of the Slavic football club Desna, will prepare a big holiday for local compatriots for the tenth time. The key event of the festival will be football and volleyball ...

Amazon will open a grocery store with no queues, cashiers and money

Online retailer Amazon decided to go offline by opening a grocery store. However, this outlet will be very unusual: there will be no queues, cash registers and money, the goods needed by the buyer can simply be taken and left, according to the company's website. Amazon Go technology, by ...

BI-2 goes to America with a big tour

As part of the grand BEST OF tour, the Bi-2 group will give 7 concerts in the USA. BI-2 needs no introduction - this is one of the most successful groups of the 2000s, which was created more than 30 years ago by two musicians - Levaya Bi-2 and ...

Heroin Injection Rooms Open in Seattle

Seattle will become the first city in the United States to open a "injection room" - a room where drug addicts can inject themselves with a sterile needle and, possibly, under the supervision of a nurse. Similar ideas were raised in Baltimore, New York, Boston and San Francisco, but they remained ideas. Seattle...

Russian Roman Seleznev convicted of hacking by a Seattle court

A Seattle jury found Russian citizen Roman Seleznev, the son of Russian MP Valery Seleznev, guilty of stealing credit card information from the computer systems of various companies in the United States, including restaurants in Washington state. Credit card details were then reportedly sold on ...

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