Category: Russia

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…

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…