Author's notes Marina Sokolovskaya

journalist, blogger


As a citizen of Kazakhstan, for seven years they have not been able to receive the status of political refugees in the USA

They don't want to advertise their story, so I changed their names. Svetlana and Oleg are husband and wife, their son is growing up, they work in government jobs and have been waiting for documents for many years. At the end of August they moved from...


How the September 11 terrorist attack in New York killed a pensioner in the Moscow region

Pensioner Viktor Barkov became the only Russian who died due to the September 11 tragedy in his apartment in the Kolomensky district. A terrorist attack in New York gave a man a heart attack - Viktor Kuzmich died while watching the news, the very second he saw...


Married for life convicts: the incredible story of a Ukrainian family in the United States

There will be no conclusions or morals at the end of this article. In it itself there will be no calls to take sides, and even less justification or condemnation. This is just a side view of the history of some relationships, or rather, the history of a young ...


As an immigrant from the USSR, brought to light the Brooklyn bribe judge and sued her children back

Some time ago, my article about violence in families was published on the ForumDaily website when the husband is a US citizen and the wife is from the former USSR. I decided to write it because I often received requests for help from women who suffered...


An immigrant from Kazakhstan gave birth in the United States at home and now cannot receive documents for a child

A native of Aktau (Kazakhstan) living in the USA did not have time to get to the hospital and gave birth at home. Firefighters and paramedics attended the birth. Everything went great - mother and daughter feel great. But for almost a month now, young parents have not been able to get...


What I like about the Russian-speaking community in New York

It seems to me that no one criticizes the “Russians” of New York more than I do. Perhaps I see in others what I want to get rid of myself. That’s why I criticize all “our people” mercilessly. And we avoid each other - we heard Russian speech, and were immediately dissatisfied...


New York restaurant through the eyes of a waitress from Russia

My interlocutor, a pretty young blonde named Maria, came to New York from Moscow several years ago, when she was only 22 years old. In the capital of Russia, she moved, one might say, in a bohemian environment - she worked in the theater as a prop artist, studied...


Opinion: in the USA, no one owes anything to your children

I took my daughters to school, I return home and pass by two mothers who also took theirs and stopped to talk: “…. I tell her - he’s in second grade and can barely read! What is it?". “Weak school, weak, teachers don’t do anything...


Irma inspired: how I survived two hurricanes in New York

According to the news, there is only talk about hurricanes. I remembered how I experienced two in New York. One was not scary at all - his name was Irene, so, rain, wind, torn branches. And then Sandy came... It happened in November 2012. Us…


We are losing it: why do children of immigrants need Russian?

Let me make a reservation right away - the phrase “Russian language” is very arbitrary. In its place could be: Ukrainian, Armenian, Georgian, and so on. We are talking, parents, about your native language, which remained native to you during immigration, but became a second language for your children.…

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