Sergey is a pensioner from Nizhny Novgorod who works as a taxi driver. He used to make a living as an industrial ventilation specialist and helped build a nuclear power plant in his town, which was then called Gorky – a city with a strategic arms industry that was closed…
Month: Friday March 29th, 2019
Alexander is a taxi driver from Samara. He was complaining about the bad state of the Russian economy, the poor quality of roads and the lack of jobs. According to him, nobody he knows voted for Putin. He is German. During Stalin’s reign his family was deported to Kazakhstan, but…
Iskander lives in Cheboksary, the capital of the Republic of Chuvashia. One of Russia’s 22 national republics, Chuvashia joined the Grand Duchy of Moscovy in the time of Tsar Ivan the Terrible in the 16th century. It is home to the Turkic Chuvash people whose language and culture have special…
Russian/Tatar couple on a night out in the twilight hours of mid-summer Kazan in the Republic of Tatarstan.