Category: Faces of the East

Maga is from Nalchik, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the North Caucasus. He took us for a ride through downtown Nalchik, confident…

Malkhas is a Yazidi living in Pyatigorsk in the Russian North Caucasus. When we were driving with him, he played cutting edge electronic music with…

This friendly Babushka (grandmother) is originally from Poland. After the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the country’s east was annexed by the Soviets and in 1940 her family…

Tamara is a pensioner from the North Caucasus with Kabardinian and Russian roots. She worked many years in the gas industry in the far north…

Boris (right) was out with his friends playing chess on Lenin square in the centre of Elista, the capital Kalmykia. The Republic in the south…