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Resident Hippy
No one remembers Lyosha’s real last name. Everyone calls him Rizhskii because he grew up in Riga, a western republic of the Soviet Union. Lyosha is creative guy. He directs movies and documentaries by...
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Vet Student
Varya is the oldest in her family. She has a younger brother and sister. Her dream is to be a veterinarian. Two years ago Varya finished high school and entered a veterinarian school in another city....
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British by Birth, Orthodox by Confession
As a student of the Russian language at Oxford, Father Christopher came to Russia 25 years ago. His first experience with Russia was on a summer program in Voronezh. This experience would not be his...
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Tadjik Worker
Zhora’s real name is Jamolitdin. Just like thousands of other migrants, Jamolitdin came to Russia to earn money. He left his parents, wife, and four children behind. Zhora is from Tajikstan; he was...
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My House is My Planet
Sergei splits his life between the city and the country. During the week he works as a driving instructor in Moscow but on the weekends he goes back to the old country home where he grew up. While back...
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A Strict Building Guard
Rita Tikhonova is a concierge. About two years ago, she came to Moscow from a provincial town under a contract from a staff recruitment agency. Since then, the agency went bankrupt twice and eventually...
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Free Artist
Vasily is an especially creative man: he is an artist and musician, a traveller and philosopher, a loving husband and attentive father. Vasily was born into a family of Moscow artists. He graduated...
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Countryside Liberty
It has been many years since Olga Vasiljevna has worked. As a longtime leading economist at the Ministry of Trade and Finance during Soviet times, Olga Vasiljevna, like many other specialists, lost her...
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The Carefree Life of a Law Student
Alyona is the happy owner of her own very big room, which fortunately, she does not have to share with her younger sister. She is also the owner of a huge teddy bear. Alyona is about to enter...
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Police Officer
Andrei is a colonel in the Moscow Police Force. He is the leader of the criminology expert mobile unit, which is usually called upon if the standard unit finds itself in a complicated situation where...
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Assistant Professor
Masha is a charming and talented student at Moscow’s State University for the Humanities. She was raised in a large family; she has six brothers and one sister. Masha’s family moved a lot until they...
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College Graduate
Vadim is 22 years old. He was born in Ivanovo, the city of brides and a central hub for the Russian textile industry. A few years ago Vadim’s family moved to Moscow. Vadim now lives in a bright and...
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Brit in Moscow
Ian is British but he has already lived 15 years in Moscow. An alumnus of Cambridge, he is a specialist of International Relations and Security. In the late 80’s he came to work in the Soviet Union....
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Retired Soviet Economist
Avid cottager and gardener, Yevgenii Petrovich spends the summer in a village near Moscow. For the winter he likes to go somewhere south to the warm coastal regions far from the Moscow winter. Years...
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Ex-computer Specialist
Ivanich lives in an old country house on the very edge of Moscow. Right next-door is the green expanse of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ sanatorium which is the former estate of the Trubetsky* nobles...
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Дружная семья
Три сестры и старший брат: Саша, Женя, Варя и Лёнька. Нелегкая задача уживаться в одной комнате такой шумной компании. Двухъярусная кровать, детская мебель, палатка-крепость, карта звездного неба,...
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Новый дом
Татьяна приехала в Америку совсем недавно, меньше полугода назад. Живет с мужем и дочкой в съемном доме, который медленно, но верно становится частью большой мозаики ее новой американской жизни. Дома,...
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Американская мечта
Глядя на прекрасную, улыбающуюся, полную энергии Ольгу, никогда не скажешь, что она – мать большого семейства. В России многодетные семьи находятся на особом счету у государства: им помогают и...
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Футболист растет
Джон – прекрасный, задумчивый мальчик. От русской мамы он унаследовал поэтичность и любовь к прекрасному, а от папы англичанина – страсть к футболу! Это легко заметить по оформлению комнаты, в которой...
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Яблони под окном
Про жизнь Светланы можно было бы написать целый роман, так удивительно сложилась ее судьба. Светлана родом из Одессы – славного украинского города на юге Украины. Чтобы понять дух и колорит Одессы,...
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