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The incredible family story of a woman from Tajikistan working as a cleaner in Germany

Lena is originally from the Tajik capital Dushanbe. As is the case with many from the former USSR, her family history could be the material for a movie script. Her mother is Russian, and her father was German. Her great-grandfather had been an industrialist in Donetsk, then in the Russian…

Concentrating on the future in Germany rather than the past in Russia

Eduard Kaufmann was born in Tula, Russia. But as both his parents have German roots, his family moved to Offenbach in Western Germany when he was 10 years old. He said that he was not interested in going back to Russia at all and that he does not even feel…