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Alibek came from sunny Azerbaijan to sell watermelons. He left the sun behind for the Moscow slush, autumn chill, around-the-clock noise, and dirt from passing cars. The watermelons are brought in by night. With a partner, Alibek loads the melons … Continue reading

Marina Alexandrovna is a born optimist and a children’s speech therapist. With inconceivable ease (thanks to years of work, experience, and professionalism), she finds an approach for any, even the most difficult and aloof child. Dolls, toys, nuts, acorns, beetles, … Continue reading

Natasha is a needlewoman, passionate botanist, and a wonderful mother of three children. Her apartment greets visitors with an abundance of green and yellow. Clouds float along the ceiling and in the middle of the room there lays a multi-purpose … Continue reading

Vitya Barsuk is a young Muscovite. Living in an ordinary Moscow apartment, he has managed to construct for himself a magical non-Moscow reality. On the surface, Vitya follows generally accepted norms: he studies at an institute and earns a bit … Continue reading

Andrei is a colonel in the Moscow Police Force. He is the leader of the criminology expert mobile unit, which is usually called upon if the standard unit finds itself in a complicated situation where special expertize is needed. Andrei … Continue reading

Alyona is the happy owner of her own very big room, which fortunately, she does not have to share with her younger sister. She is also the owner of a huge teddy bear. Alyona is about to enter adulthood. Only … Continue reading

It has been many years since Olga Vasiljevna has worked. As a longtime leading economist at the Ministry of Trade and Finance during Soviet times, Olga Vasiljevna, like many other specialists, lost her prestigious job with the collapse of the … Continue reading

Vasily is an especially creative man: he is an artist and musician, a traveller and philosopher, a loving husband and attentive father. Vasily was born into a family of Moscow artists. He graduated from art school with a degree in … Continue reading

Rita Tikhonova is a concierge. About two years ago, she came to Moscow from a provincial town under a contract from a staff recruitment agency. Since then, the agency went bankrupt twice and eventually closed down, but Rita Tikhonova stayed. … Continue reading

Sergei splits his life between the city and the country. During the week he works as a driving instructor in Moscow but on the weekends he goes back to the old country home where he grew up. While back home, … Continue reading