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5 stories, May 2020 – July 2022

  1. A Dog Owner Is Always a Bit of a Bastard

    Dog behaviour specialist and aquatic trainer Pavel Sokolov on the relationship between humans and dogs, violence in training, and whether you should, after all, let your dog on the sofa

    · 44 min · 37 questions

  2. Change the Point of Support

    Eka Gorstka, founder of the “Voskeporik” centre for aesthetic development and rehabilitation, on how to integrate children with special needs into society properly, why involve parents in therapy, how opera singing led her to charity work, the good in the pandemic and “wings of kindness”.

    · 34 min · 22 questions

  3. “When I found out I’d lost an eye, I made a mental note of the fact. Thought, the other eye is still there — good, I can see. When I could finally walk to the toilet on my own two feet, I looked in the mirror. I was curious to see what was left of the eye. I like anatomy in general, the structure of the body.”

  4. “If we are against the fact that a criminal should receive education and proper rehabilitation at the expense of the society, then he will just stay in jail at our expense, and sometimes stay repeatedly. We will pay that money anyway. The question is what we will get as an output.”

  5. “Don't wrench out the tongue, don't break the jaw.”

    Not a Life Sentence

    — We talk to Elena Bagdasaryan, president of the Road of Life charitable foundation, about why it is important for people with epilepsy to receive high-quality medicines, for society to develop charitable giving, and for foundations to fight online fraudsters, as well as about a chicken received as a gift, stigma, and how to help foundations properly.

    · 46 min · 28 questions