Yuka was roaming the central Druzhba (friendship) park in Elista (Kalmykia) to sell magazines. He only had two issues on offer, one for boys and one for girls (which one is for whom I let you figure out). He also claimed to have built several businesses already, such as a…
Month: Saturday April 13th, 2019
Zarina is originally from Chechnya and now lives in Volzhsky, a town not far from Volgograd. She came there “just before the war in Chechnya broke out”. Many of her relatives stayed back home to fight. Her brother used to be one of Chechen president Kadyrov’s main bodyguards and now…
Gen Pen Tso is a Buddhist monk from Tibet who has been living in Kalmykia since 2006. The Republic in Russia’s south is the only region in Europe where Buddhism is traditionally the majority religion. Gen came to live in the republic’s capital Elista to work in one of the…
Svetlana is proudly showing a picture of her little daughter dressed up in a WW2 Soviet uniform for the victory day celebration on 9th of May, commemorating the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany. In fact, putting one’s children in Red Army fatigue has become fashionable among “patriotic” parents in Russia…