Category: Category 4


  • It was a perfectly ordinary evening of May 2020 in Copenhagen, Denmark. After a long workday and dinner, I was perusing the site of the Facebook Group “Harbin and Harbintsy”, run by the energetic former Harbin resident Abram Troiczyn from Australia. I was a member since 2014, invited by an old family friend with analogous…

  • On being an emigrant by inheritance

    Do you ever feel that your destiny has been handed to you by your predecessors, whether you agreed with that or not? It’s like when you were a kid and thought veggies were meh, but your mum didn’t listen. So, eat your destiny and shut up! A good half of my folks were almost emigration…