Five years with the embassy

These are two notes from my living magazine.

February 2011

Russian embassy in Norway behind a tall fence. It is strange that without thorns. The metal detector is turned off. A tiny room, a crowd, small children cry. There are not enough places to sit. Three visitors write at the table, the rest - right behind the stand at the windows. To take shape, you need to stand in line. Welcome home - a dirty toilet without paper. But a whole cabinet of magazines published at the expense of the "Russian World". They answer not to help a person, but somehow regarding, about another. Girl from Lipetsk: "I want to invite my Polish friend to Russia." - "Let him go to the travel agency and booked the hotel."

They disappear after each visitor for 15 minutes. In our window, a person disappeared 45 minutes before the break. At this break, people to eat normally, of course, have nowhere to go. After the break, we stood in front of the gate for another 15 minutes. They called on the phone. People in line - 30 people with children. They said that the embassy and 30 minutes later could open.

The Norwegians who drawn up the documents for the first time looked at everything as a marvelous. Norwegians rarely meet visas. Countries with a human standard of living are afraid that they will go to them forever - what are the countries in which there is no life? One person asked: "How to return to Russia?" - And everyone looked at him.

July 2016

At the Russian embassy in Oslo, where I recently finally refused citizenship, everything is as before. You can see the Soviet interior at a dear heart. You can get a St. George ribbon. And there is a perculture calendar. July symbolizes the attack aircraft Yak-130. On the website "Russian weapons" they write that the Yak-130 can carry about three tons of modern weapons. "Это могут быть ракеты класса "воздух-воздух", "воздух-поверхность", высокоточные управляемые авиабомбы, бомбы свободного падения, неуправляемые ракеты. Кроме того, на Як-130 предусмотрена возможность закрепления под фюзеляжем 23-миллиметровой пушки, а на концах крыльев могут крепиться ракеты класса "воздух-воздух". Все эти замечательные слова: оружие, ракеты, Bombs, guns-mean only one thing-Russian death: both to themselves and people, how strange it was to see the embassy bureaucrats-small useless people in a bulletproof cage, who do everything in life, that they spy, gloat, make people get senseless reference-sitting under the picture perfectly describing the Russian national idea: to be a loser. Hate and because of his fence to wish death to all living things.

Lyubava Malysheva- a civil activist, a photographer-documentary, lives in the Norwegian city of Bergen