Maria Sergeevna (left) came to visit her daughter Irina and her family in Pyatigorsk, where they are living as refugees. They are all from the war-torn Donbas region in Ukraine. Irina (right) left with her son in the summer of 2014, when Donetsk started to get seriously shelled. When people…
Monat: Dienstag, 30UTCTue, 30 Apr 2019 00:01:59 +0000 30. April 2019
Zula is a Kalmyk living in Moscow. He came to Elista with his family to visit his grandmother, who is living in the Kalmyk capital.
Sörkte is a Kalmyk from Xinjian in China. He has come to Russia to study at the Kalmyk State University in Elista. According to him, the dialect of Kalmyks from China, where there is a sizable minority of them living, is different from that of Kalmyks in Russia. By now…
Alexander is a young member of Russia’s national guard. His battalion was ordered on a trip to the Paulus museum in central Volgograd, located in the cellar of the warehouse where the encircled 6th German army surrendered to the Soviets on January 31st 1943 in what was then called Stalingrad.…