Former choreographers, accountants, and fitness trainers, after express psychology courses, record polished videos and take on children and adults as clients. Their clients either become disillusioned with psychology or end up with psychiatrists with worsened problems. The State Duma has been unable to pass a law regulating private psychologists for 12 years

Borders between Russia and Europe are closing, and censorship is intensifying — how can bridges be built between those who left and those who stayed? Musicians, artists, activists, and journalists who left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine discussed this in Vilnius. We publish their conversation.

“Siberianization” reflects the Russian authorities’ anti-European course, in which they have chosen complete economic dependence on China instead of cooperation with the West. Meanwhile, in China, there have long been dreams of reclaiming Siberian territories, which are considered there to have been unjustly ceded to the Russian Empire.

The documentary "Russian Winter" about sad political émigrés from Russia was screened at Berlinale during days when residents of Ukrainian cities were suffering from the cold under Russian bombardment. But Austrian director Patrick Chiha did not change the title.