An American tourist in Russia
Maria Kondorskaya 
Brief and Sentimental Intro When I was 11 or 12, I heard grown-ups speak of a “difficult age” their teenage kids are being through. This age comes with bad grades, scandals, early pregnancies and paternities, escapes, elopes and sometimes jail time. I got very scared of the “difficult age”, and expressly asked mom, “Please, don’t … Read more
Hi there, I know you missed me a lot (ok, maybe you didn’t). I’ve been recently active on Quora (please, follow here), but I cannot let you miss on my precious content. So here is a potpourri of some longer posts and replies I made there recently and consider worth sharing. Question (original spelling and … Read more
It has suddenly occured to me that the Western society has never become truly liberal (i.e. “thinking freely”). It has always been revolving around an accepted, limited set of very rigid conventions. This set could evolve, change, be replaced or modernized, but the system has remained the same. It’s like changing wallpapers in a prison … Read more
The favorite game of the West is divide and conquer. It works at many levels: cultural, ethnic, religious, classist, racial, sexual/gender, etc. I will never believe that the BLM movement was planned and implemented by the US black community. Neither it is the beneficiary. The US liberal Deep State doesn’t care about the LGBTQ+ rights … Read more
Admit that you often spend hours after hours watching literally nothing on YouTube. You scroll videos where hands of people you don’t know do some stereotypical, repetitive things like pressing buttons, applying stickers, doing makeup, sharpen pencils, cutting hair, spitting on the mike, eating, etc. Sounds seem to be an important part of it. It … Read more