by Liz Sukhovskaya | Feb 18, 2011 | Russia, Staff
From our own Liz Hulley — The first interesting thing about going to Moscow in February… …is that I spent Valentine’s Day on a train with my fiance. Well, sort of. We were headed to Moscow to do paperwork, and it was already 11pm when our train...
by Liz Sukhovskaya | Jan 18, 2011 | Russia
From Liz Hulley — Andrey and I announced our engagement at church on Sunday. We had tried to keep it a secret since the proposal in December. 🙂 It was really fun telling everyone all at once! Andrey was preaching and I was upstairs at Sunday School, so he had to...
by Mike Cantrell | Dec 28, 2010 | Russia
MIR Executive Director Masha Oshkina traveled to the US with a disabled orphan for the hosting program. Here are her comments: We thought Andrey wouldn’t make it to the States. It almost seemed like nobody would. The newly made regulations about orphans travelling...
by Mike Cantrell | Dec 3, 2010 | Russia, Staff
News from Liz Hulley — In the end of October I received my temporary residency permit, which is valid for 3 years. This was the end of a 10-month process which began in January with a race to get in under the quota, and culminated in several back-to-back rounds...
by Mike Cantrell | Nov 25, 2010 | Russia
From MIR, in St. Petersburg — Last week, Russia celebrated “Unity Day,” which coincided with school vacation week. During this time, our dear friend David Hulley came for a visit. As per tradition, he wanted to spend some time with kids from the “Fairy” group...
by Mike Cantrell | Nov 12, 2010 | Russia, Staff
from Liz Hulley at On Life in St.Petersburg –www.openiam.com/docs/idm-2_3/apidocs/com/ When my dad and I took some kids from the orphanage out last week, the counselors whispered to us about the backgrounds of some of the kids. Well, they didn’t really...
